boat

Signification

Noun

1. 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.
2. (slang) A full house.
3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
4. One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
5. (informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
6. In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
7. Alternative form of BOAT

Verb

1. To travel by boat.
2. To transport in a boat.
3. To place in a boat.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bəʊt/

Étymologie

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”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).
Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.

Phrases

They rented a boat and went down the river .

Ils ont loué un bateau et descendu la rivière.

I think we can do better after the boat sails .

Je pense que nous pouvons faire mieux après les voiles du bateau.