boat
See also: BOAT
English
A boat kept on land
Etymology
From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).
Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bōt, IPA(key): /bəʊt/
- Rhymes: -əʊt
- (General American) enPR: bōt, IPA(key): /boʊt/
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Noun
boat (plural boats)
- A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel […] . Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.
- 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
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- (poker slang) A full house.
- A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
- a stone boat; a gravy boat
- (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
- (Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Usage notes
- There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy. It is also the normal designation for a submarine (however large), and also for lakers (ships used in the Great Lakes trade in North America).
Synonyms
- (craft on or in water): craft, ship, vessel
Hyponyms
Terms denoting specific kinds of boat, apart from derived terms
- (A craft on or in water): ark, bangca, barge, canoe, catamaran, caravel, carrack, coracle, cruiser, cutter, dhow, dinghy, dory, Dutch barge, East Indiaman, felucca, ferry, galley, galleon, gig, gondola, hovercraft, hydrofoil, hydroplane, inflatable raft, jetski, junk, caik/kaiki/kayık, kayak, ketch, luxemotor, motorsailer, Norfolk wherry, outrigger canoe, peniche, pinnace, raft, schooner, scow, sealship, Seiner, ship of the line, skiff, sloop, submarine, tender, tjalk, trawler, trireme, trimaran, troller, tug, wangkang, water taxi, yacht, yawl
Derived terms
- advice boat
- bait boat
- banana boat
- bass boat
- belly boat
- boatable
- boatage
- boat bearer
- boatbill
- boat boy
- boat bug
- boatbuilder
- boat cloak
- boat conformation
- boatel, botel
- boater
- boatful
- boat-hook
- boat hook
- boathook
- boathouse
- boatie
- boat-in
- boating
- boat-in theater
- boat-in theatre
- boatless
- boatlift
- boat lift
- boatload
- boatman, boatsman
- boatmanship, boatsmanship
- boat mate
- boatneck
- boat neckline
- Boat of Garten
- boat park
- boat people, boat person
- boat race
- boat ramp
- boat-shaped abdomen
- boat shed
- boat shell
- boat shoe
- boat show
- boatslip
- boatswain
- boattail
- boat train
- boat trip
- boat truck
- boatward
- boatwoman
- boatwright
- boatyard
- boy in the boat
- bunder boat
- burn one's boats
- butter boat
- chain boat
- cigarette boat
- cigarette-boat
- coastal motor boat
- couta boat
- crash boat
- crayboat
- deck boat
- disease boat
- dive boat
- diving boat
- douche boat
- drag boat
- dragon boat
- dreamboat
- E-boat
- eyes in the boat
- ferryboat
- ferry boat
- ferry-boat
- fireboat
- fisher-boat
- fishing boat
- flatboat
- float someone's boat
- fly-boat
- flying boat
- fold boat
- folding boat
- fresh off the boat
- full boat
- gas boat
- get in the boat and row
- get in the boat and start rowing
- glass-bottom boat
- goat boat
- go-fast boat
- gravy boat
- guardboat
- gunboat
- head boat
- Higgins boat
- hong boat
- houseboat
- ice boat
- ice-boat
- iceboat
- ice dragon boat
- incense boat
- inflatable boat
- in the same boat
- jetboat
- jet boat
- jolly boat
- keelboat
- kick boat
- life boat
- lifeboat
- lightboat
- little man in the boat
- log boat
- longboat
- long-tail boat
- longtail boat
- mackinaw boat
- mailboat
- masoola boat
- Massoola boat
- maxi boat
- Mike boat
- miss the boat
- monkey boat
- motor boat, motorboat
- narrowboat
- oar in someone's boat
- packet-boat
- packet boat
- paddleboat
- paddle boat
- pap boat
- party boat
- patrol boat
- picket boat
- pilot boat
- pleasure boat
- policeboat
- poling boat
- powerboat
- PT boat
- push the boat out
- Q-boat
- rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB)
- riverboat
- rock the boat
- rowboat
- rowing boat
- sailboat
- sailing boat
- sauce boat
- seaboat
- ship's boat
- shrimp boat
- snag-boat
- solar boat
- speedboat
- speed boat
- stake boat
- steam-boat
- steamboat
- surf boat
- surfboat
- swan boat
- swift boat
- swordfishing boat
- tea boat
- torpedo boat
- track-boat
- trail boat
- tug boat
- tug-boat
- tugboat
- turn the boat
- turn the boat around
- twist-boat
- U-boat
- Una boat
- Upper Boat
- wager-boat
- weighing boat
- well-boat
- well boat
- whaleboat
- whatever floats your boat
Descendants
- → Esperanto: boato
- → Dhivehi: ބޯޓު (bōṭu)
- → Fijian: boto
- → Hijazi Arabic: بوت (bōt)
- → Japanese: ボート (bōto)
- → Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)
- → Sinhalese: බෝට්ටුව (bōṭṭuwa)
- → Swahili: boti
- → Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)
- → Tahitian: poti
- Tok Pisin: bot
Translations
water craft
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poker slang: full house
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chemistry: conformation of cyclohexane
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See also
- Category:Watercraft
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
Verb
boat (third-person singular simple present boats, present participle boating, simple past and past participle boated)
- (intransitive) To travel by boat.
- (transitive) To transport in a boat.
- to boat goods
- (transitive) To place in a boat.
- to boat oars
Translations
travel by boat
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Anagrams
- Bato, Tabo, atob, btoa
Finnish
Noun
boat
- nominative plural of boa
Anagrams
- abot
Latin
Verb
boat
- third-person singular present active indicative of boō
Malay
Alternative forms
- buat
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buat/
- Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at
Verb
boat (1701, used in the form berboat)
- Obsolete form of buat.
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boə̯t/
Noun
boat n (plural boaten, diminutive boatsje or boatke)
- boat
Derived terms
- stoomboat
- ûnderseeboat
Further reading
- “boat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011