boat

noun

1. 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.

   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.

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   Vessel for travelling by water. A submarine.

3. 3

   Vessel for travelling by water. A large, ocean-going ship.

4. 4

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

   a stone boat; a gravy boat

5. 5

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

   And then when all were vested he had stood holding out the boat to the rector and the rector had put a spoonful of incense in it and it had hissed on the red coals.

6. 6

   slangA full house.

7. 7

   informalA 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. 8

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

9. 9

   slangThe face (compare boat race).

10. 10

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

11. 11

    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.

12. 12

    Variant of BOATAlternative form of BOAT.

verb

1. 1

   To travel by boat.

2. 2

   To transport in a boat.

   to boat goods

3. 3

   obsoleteTo transport (deport to a penal colony).

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

4. 4

   To place in a boat.

   to boat oars

Forms

plural

boats

past tense

boated

past participle

boated

present participle

boating

third person singular

boats