Meaning

2 senses
  1. A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).

    Rettungsboot

    спаса́тельная ло́дкаspasátelʹnaja lódka

    a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship

  2. An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.

Examples

23 sentences
  1. Where are the lifeboats?

    Де рятувальні шлюпки?

    ruГде спасательные шлюпки?

    deWo sind die Rettungsboote?

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  2. How many lifeboats are on this ship?

    ruСколько на этом корабле спасательных шлюпок?

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  3. Tom spent three days alone in a lifeboat.

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  4. There's only space for ten people in the lifeboat.

    ruНа спасательной шлюпке есть место только для десяти человек.

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  5. Tom was in one of the lifeboats that sank.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a boat to save shipwrecked people:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a boat to save shipwrecked people:

Forms

plural: lifeboats
Singularlifeboat
Plurallifeboats

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
rowboatraftquarter boat

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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