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boat

  [boht]
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–noun
1. a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
2. a small ship, generally for specialized use: a fishing boat.
3. a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat: They lowered the boats for evacuation.
4. a ship.
5. a vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water.
6. a serving dish resembling a boat: a gravy boat; a celery boat.
7. Ecclesiastical. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer.
–verb (used without object)
8. to go in a boat: We boated down the Thames.
–verb (used with object)
9. to transport in a boat: They boated us across the bay.
10. to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Compare ship (def. 8).
—Idioms
11. in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems: The new recruits were all in the same boat.
12. miss the boat, Informal.
a. to fail to take advantage of an opportunity: He missed the boat when he applied too late to get into college.
b. to miss the point of; fail to understand: I missed the boat on that explanation.
13. rock the boat. rock 2 (def. 15).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME boot (n.), OE bāt; c. ON beit

Related forms:
boat⋅a⋅ble, adjective
boatless, adjective
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boat   (bōt)   
n.  

    1. A relatively small, usually open craft of a size that might be carried aboard a ship.

    2. An inland vessel of any size.

    3. A ship or submarine.

  2. A dish shaped like a boat: a sauce boat.

v.   boat·ed, boat·ing, boats

v.   intr.

  1. To travel by boat.

  2. To ride a boat for pleasure.

v.   tr.

  1. To transport by boat.

  2. To place in a boat.


[Middle English bot, from Old English bāt; see bheid- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Idioms & Phrases

boat

see burn one's bridges (boats); in the same boat; miss the boat; rock the boat.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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