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