boat
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English boot, bot, boet, boyt, from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitan (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheid- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”).
Old Norse bātr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt), Dutch boot, German Boot, and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (RP) enPR: bōt, IPA: /bəʊt/, SAMPA: /b@Ut/
- Rhymes: -əʊt
- (GenAm) enPR: bōt, IPA: /boʊt/, SAMPA: /boUt/
- Rhymes: -oʊt
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[edit] 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.
- (poker slang) A full house.
- (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
[edit] Usage notes
There's no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft that is generally smaller than a "ship" and larger than a "dinghy".
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Terms denoting specific kinds of boat
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Terms derived from boat (noun)
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water craft
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- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
[edit] Verb
boat (third-person singular simple present boats, present participle boating, simple past and past participle boated)
- To travel by boat.
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travel by boat
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boat
- Plural form of boa.
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boat
- third-person singular present active indicative of boō
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- IPA: /boət/
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boat n. (pl. boaten)
- boat
