boat
noun
1 boat
A small vessel for travel on water.
Roget 273: ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom. navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping. man of war etc. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship†; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala†; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound. ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine†; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree [Fr.]; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy†, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse†, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop [Coll.], nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau [Can.], broadhorn†, dory, droger†, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot†; shallop†, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble†, punt, cog, kedge, lerret†; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan†; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame†; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel†, caravel; felucca, caique†, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist†; bilander†, dogger†, hooker, howker†; argosy, carack†; galliass†, galleon; polacca†, polacre†, tartane†, junk, lorcha†, praam†, proa†, prahu†, saick†, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah†; nuggah†; kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme†, trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan†, wangan [U.S.], wharf boat. balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane†; hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute. jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft. ... show more
is a specific kind of: vessel, watercraft.
is a broader term that covers: ark | barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter | bumboat | canal boat, narrow boat, narrowboat | catamaran | ferry, ferryboat | fireboat | gondola | guard boat | gunboat | junk | longboat | lugger | mackinaw, Mackinaw boat | mail boat, mailboat, packet, packet boat | motorboat, powerboat | pilot boat | police boat | punt | river boat | scow | sea boat | small boat | steamboat | surfboat | cutter, pinnace, ship's boat, tender | towboat, tower, tug, tugboat ... show more.
has as a part: boat whistle.
domain member category: mooring, mooring line | painter | pontoon | passenger, rider | sculler | tack, wear round | scull | registered | unregistered | crank, cranky, tender, tippy.
derivation: boatv1.
Dutch: schip, boot
Polish: stara krypa, krypa
2 boat
A dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce.
synonyms: gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat.
Dutch: juskom
Polish: sosjerka
verb
1 boat
Ride in a boat on water.
Moby thesaurus: almadia, argosy, ark, auto, autocar, automobile, auxiliary, barge, bark, bottom, bucket, buggy, bus, buss, canoe, car, cargo boat, carry sail, cart, cat, catamaran, circumnavigate, coach, coast, cockle, cockleshell, cog, coracle, craft, crate, cross, cruise, cruiser, cutter, dinghy, dispatch boat, dray, drifter, dugout, ferry, ferryboat, fishing boat, float, funny, galley, gig, glider, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, gondola, haul, heap, hooker, houseboat, hoy, hulk, hull, hydrofoil, hydroplane, jalopy, jolly, jolly boat, kayak, keel, knockabout, launch, leviathan, lifeboat, lighter, longboat, machine, mailer, make a passage, motor, motor vehicle, motorboat, motorcar, motorized vehicle, navigate, outboard, outrigger canoe, packet, pilot, pilot boat, pinnace, piragua, pirogue, ply, pontoon, post boat, pram, punt, racer, racing shell, raft, randan, row, rowboat, rowing boat, run, runabout, sail, sail round, sail the sea, sailboat, sampan, scooter, scow, scull, seafare, shallop, shell, ship, showboat, skiff, sled, sledge, small boat, sneakbox, speedboat, steam, steamboat, surfboat, take a voyage, towboat, traverse, trawlboat, trawler, trimaran, trow, truck, tub, tug, tugboat, van, vessel, voiture, voyage, wagon, wanigan, watercraft, whale-gig, whaleboat, wheelbarrow, wheels, wherry, wreck, yacht, yawl, yawl boat ... show more.
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