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boat

noun
/ˈbəʊ̯t/UK/ˈboʊ̯t/US/ˈbəʉ̯t/

Etymology

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”). Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljónka) (< долби́ть (dolbítʹ)), Russian чёлн (čoln) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).

  1. derived from *bʰeyd-✻ — “to break, split”
  2. inherited from *baitaz✻
  3. inherited from *bait✻
  4. inherited from bāt — “boat”
  5. inherited from bot

Definitions

  1. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or…

    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.

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

  2. A full house.

  3. A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

    • a stone boat;   a gravy boat
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. A large and heavy car

      A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.

      • Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled
      • He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat.

    2. One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped…

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

    3. The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

    4. In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by…

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

      • It creates 4 blocks, a boat, and a glider every 768 generations.
      • The program is represented as a string of boats (1s) and blocks (0s).
      • For many stable patterns, by the way, there are other input glider lanes where the gliders are caught and turned into boats, which are then cleanly deleted by another glider coming in on the same lane.

    5. Alternative form of BOAT.

    6. To travel by boat.

    7. To transport in a boat.

      • to boat goods

    8. To transport (deport to a penal colony).

      • Troy was 'boated' for seven years after being found guilty of burglary and robbery.

    9. To place in a boat.

      • to boat oars

    10. Acronym of best of all time.

    11. Acronym of byway open to all traffic.

    12. Acronym of brightest of all time (“the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded in the…

      Acronym of brightest of all time (“the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded in the universe”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at boat. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01boat02oars03oar04strokes05stroke06hitting07hit08lights09lighter10boats

A definitional loop anchored at boat. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at boat

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA