Meaning

11 senses

  1. Vessel for travelling by water.

    A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship".

    We can't get everything in the boat. We'll leave this stuff behind.

  2. A submarine.

  3. (colloquial)A large, ocean-going ship.

  4. A shallow jug used to serve sauces or other liquid foods.

    a stone boat; a gravy boat

  5. A vessel used to store the incense to be burned during a service; an incense boat.

    Boot, Schiff

    ло́дкаlódka, шлю́пкаšljúpka, ботbot

    чо́венčóven, лодьlodʹ

  6. (slang)A full house.

  7. (US, informal)A car, especially a large or heavy one.

    Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled

    He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat.

  8. (physical)One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

  9. (slang)The face (compare boat race).

  10. (Australian, informal)The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

  11. In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.

More definitions
  • a small vessel for travel on water
  • a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce

Examples

1037 sentences

  1. Some boats are on the lake.

    Декілька човнів плавають на озері. — ascolto

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  2. I crossed the river by boat.

    Я переправився через річку на човні. — deniko

    ruЯ переправился через реку на лодке. — sharptoothed

    deIch überquerte den Fluss per Schiff. — al_ex_an_der

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  3. I'm going to buy a boat.

    Я куплю човен. — deniko

    ruЯ куплю лодку. — marafon

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  4. I have a boat and a car.

    У мене є човен і машина. — deniko

    ruУ меня есть лодка и машина. — Olya

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  5. Tom wanted to buy a fishing boat.

    Том хотів купити риболовний човен. — deniko

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
water craft — see also watercraft, vessel, ship:
Русский
By meaning 1
water craft — see also watercraft, vessel, ship:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
water craft — see also watercraft, vessel, ship:

Origin

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Pr

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).

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Forms

plural: boats
Singularboat
Pluralboats

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
craft on or in water:craftB1shipA1vesselB1
land yachtsled
Close in meaning

Word family

232 related words
DerivedferryboatB2advice boataeroboatairboatautoboatbait boatbanana boatbareboatbass boatbelly boatboatableboatageboat anchorboatbearerboat bearerboatbillboatboundboat boyboat bugboatbuilderboatbuildingboat cloakboat conformationboatcraft

Collocations

12 patterns
  • the same boat
  • a fishing boat
  • floats your boat
  • fishing boat
  • rent a boat
  • kind of boat
  • rowing the boat
  • same boat
  • buy a boat
  • on a boat
  • rock the boat
  • have a boat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
boardwalkboastB1boastfulboathouseboatmanbob
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