boat
/boʊ̯t/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.71 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Vessel for travelling by water.
noun
Vessel for travelling by water.
noun
One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "a stone boat; a gravy 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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰóydos Proto-Germanic *baitaz Proto-West Germanic *bait Old English bāt Middle English bot English boat 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 Faroese and 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)). False cognate of Sanskrit बेडा (beḍā).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /boʊ̯t/
- British English: /bəʊ̯t/
Usage
- Colloquial
- Slang
- American usage
- Informal
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- Obsolete
- British usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Chemistry.
Inflected Forms
boats (plural)
boats (present, singular)
boating (participle, present)
boated (participle, past)
boated (past)
B.O.A.T. (alternative)
B. O. A. T. (alternative)