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单词 boat
释义
boatboat /bəʊt $ boʊt/ ●●● S1 W2 noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINboat
Origin:
Old English bat
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a motor boat
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • My first day at Tropicana was spent in a boat, on the beach, and in the bar.
  • Still, it was hard to keep her mind on the boat.
  • The boat swung around to its new heading.
  • There were no boats on the lake, no swimmers or fishermen.
Thesaurus
THESAURUStypes of boat
a large boat with a sail, used for pleasure or sport
British English, sailboat American English a boat that uses one or more sails
British English, rowboat American English a small boat that you move through the water with oars
a small open boat used for pleasure, or for taking people between a ship and the shore
a sailing boat with two separate hulls (=the part that goes in the water)
a sailing boat with three separate hullss
a large low boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy goods on a canal or river
(also narrow boat British English) a boat that you use on canals
a long light boat that is open at the top and pointed at both ends, which you move along using a paddle. Canoes are for one to three people
a light boat for one or two people, that is pointed at both ends and covered on top. A kayak has round holes on top in which the people sit, and you move it along using a paddle.
a long thin boat with a flat bottom that you move by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river – used for pleasure
a boat that is specially made so that you can live on it
a small boat, for example a sailing boat or a rowing boat, that people use on a lake, river etc: · People were out on the lake in pleasure boats.
 → ship1Longman Language Activatorto not use an opportunity
: miss a chance/an opportunity of · Denise never misses the chance of a free meal.miss a chance/an opportunity to do something · Don't miss this great opportunity to fly for half price.· Dan never misses an opportunity to remind me that I still owe him money.miss your chance/opportunity · Jerry's already sold the car to someone else. You've missed your chance.
to not use the chance to do something enjoyable or useful, especially when this is not a good thing: · If you don't come to the picnic you'll miss out on all the fun.· I don't want to be the type of father who is so busy he misses out on his daughter's childhood.
informal to waste a chance that you had to do or get something good: · Don't panic and talk too much in the interview or you'll really blow it.· I was afraid I'd blown my chance but she agreed to go out again on Saturday night.blow your chances of doing something: · She started running much too fast at the beginning and blew her chances of winning the race.
informal to be too late to use an opportunity to do something good: · Buy your shares in the company now or you'll miss the boat.· He didn't get his application in early enough so he missed the boat.
to not use a good opportunity when you are able to, especially an opportunity that you will not get again: · We had an opportunity to win the championship last season and we let it slip through our fingers.
an opportunity that you wasted by not using it to become successful, enjoy yourself etc: · If you don't take the job it'll just be another lost opportunity in your life.
when someone causes problems, especially deliberately
to cause a problem, even if you do not intend to: · After a while, John started causing problems in class.· They have two good running backs who can cause problems for our team's defense.· A popular independent candidate could create problems for the Democrats by taking away votes.
to deliberately cause problems, especially by starting arguments or fights: · Don't give him another drink, or he'll start causing trouble.· Some of the demonstrators were determined to make trouble, whatever the police did.· It's not just gang members that cause trouble, it's middle- and upper-class kids too.
to deliberately cause problems and make it difficult for someone to do something, for example in order to punish them or persuade them to do something: · They can't actually stop us, but they could make life difficult.make life difficult for: · Some employers have made life difficult for employees who need time off for extended illnesses.
informal to deliberately treat someone badly and cause trouble for them, for example by criticizing them, complaining, or asking them a lot of difficult questions: · When I first came here everyone gave me a really hard time, because I was the first woman to run a department.give sb a hard time about: · My mother gave me a really hard time about Freddy. She couldn't stand him.
informal to cause problems by making changes in a situation that everyone else thinks is satisfactory: · We have a pretty good life here. Why rock the boat?· Judge Thurgood Marshall never hesitated to rock the boat, from the beginning of his long legal career.· A lot of people have a don't-rock-the boat mentality that stops them from complaining.
different ways of travelling
to travel in a car: · "How are you going to get there?" "I'm driving."drive to/from: · Jenny drove to the coast for the weekend.
to travel by plane: · My mother never liked flying.fly to/from etc: · We'll be flying from New York to Munich.
to travel by boat or ship: · We sail first thing in the morningsail to/from: · He sailed from Southampton on May 6th.
travelling in a car, boat, plane, or train: · "Did you come by car?" "No, by train."· Some of the beaches can only be reached by boat.· We didn't have much time, so we decided to go by plane.
if you go somewhere on foot , you walk there: · The two men had attempted to cross the mountains on foot.
if you take a train, bus, or plane, you travel in it: · What's the best way to get downtown? Should I take a bus?· Take the subway to Montgomery Station and walk from there.
if you travel by air , by sea , or by land you travel by plane, in a boat, or on land: · It's much quicker if you go by air, but it's also more expensive.· Troops entered the region by land and sea.
by train, car, bus etc, especially over a long distance, when people would normally go by plane or ship: · It's certainly quicker to fly but we thought it would be more exciting to go overland.
also hitch a ride American to travel by standing by the side of the road asking people in cars to stop and take you to the place you want to go: · He lost all his money in a casino in Vegas and had to hitchhike back to San Francisco.· We hitched a ride with a trucker who took us all the way to the Virginia border.· It's a lot cheaper to hitch but it's also more dangerous.
the activity of travelling independently to a lot of different areas, carrying your clothes etc in a special bag on your back: · Backpacking is especially popular among students and young people.· a backpacking tripgo backpacking: · Last year, he went backpacking in the US.
WORD SETS
adrift, adjectiveaft, adjectiveahoy, interjectionaircraft carrier, nounamidships, adverbanchor, nounanchor, verbanchorage, nounark, nounastern, adverbballast, nounbarge, nounbargee, nounbargepole, nounbarnacle, nounbarque, nounbarrage, nounbeach, verbbeam, nounbecalmed, adjectiveberth, nounberth, verbbilge, nounbill of lading, nounbillow, nounblade, nounboat, nounboat hook, nounboathouse, nounboating, nounboatman, nounbob, verbbollard, nounboom, nounbow, nounbridge, nounbrig, nounbulkhead, nounbunk, nounbuoy, nouncabin, nouncabin boy, nouncabin class, nouncabin cruiser, nouncable, nouncanal, nouncanal boat, nouncanoe, nouncanoe, verbcapstan, nouncaptain, nouncatamaran, nouncircumnavigate, verbclipper, nouncoast, verbcoaster, nouncoastguard, nouncockpit, nouncommodore, nouncompanionway, nounconning tower, nouncoracle, nouncordage, nouncox, nouncoxswain, nouncraft, nouncrew, verbcrossing, nouncrow's nest, nouncruise, verbcruise liner, nouncruiser, nouncruise ship, nouncutter, noundeck, noundecompression chamber, nounderrick, noundinghy, noundisembark, verbdisgorge, verbdisplacement, noundock, noundock, verbdocker, noundockside, noundockyard, noundory, noundownstream, adverbdraught, noundraw, verbdrawbridge, noundredge, verbdredger, noundrift, verbdrift, noundrifter, noundriftwood, noundrilling platform, noundrown, verbdry dock, noundugout, noundyke, nounembark, verbensign, nounferry, nounferry, verbferryboat, nounfigurehead, nounfirst mate, nounfirst officer, nounfleet, nounflotilla, nounfo'c'sle, nounforecastle, nounfounder, verbfrigate, nounfrogman, noungalleon, noungalley, noungangplank, noungangway, noungondola, noungondolier, noungrappling iron, nounground, verbgunnel, noungunwale, nounhalyard, nounharbour, nounhatch, nounhawser, nounhelm, nounhelmsman, nounhigh tide, nounhigh water, nounhigh water mark, nounhold, nounhoot, nounhoot, verbhouseboat, nounhovercraft, nounhulk, nounhull, nounhydrofoil, nounhydroplane, nounhydroplane, verbicebreaker, nouninboard, adjectiveinflatable, nouninflow, nounJet Ski, nounjetty, nounjib, nounjunk, nounkayak, nounkeel, nounketch, nounknot, nounkt, land, verblanding stage, nounlane, nounlaunch, verblaunch, nounleeward, adjectivelife belt, nounlifeboat, nounlife buoy, nounlife jacket, nounlifeline, nounlife preserver, nounlife raft, nounlife vest, nounlighter, nounlighthouse, nounlightship, nounliner, nounlist, verblock, nounlock keeper, nounlog book, nounlongshoreman, nounlow tide, nounlow water, nounlow water mark, nounlugger, nounmainmast, nounmainsail, nounmaritime, adjectivemast, nounmaster, nounmasthead, nounmerchantman, nounmerchant navy, nounmerchant seaman, nounminesweeper, nounmizzen, nounmoor, verbmooring, nounmother ship, nounmotorboat, nounnarrow boat, nounnautical, adjectivenavigable, adjectivenavigate, verbnavigation, nounoakum, nounoar, nounoarlock, nounoarsman, nounoarswoman, nounoceangoing, adjectiveoffshore, adjectiveoil slick, nounoil tanker, nounoutboard motor, nounoutrigger, nounoverboard, adverboyster bed, nounpacket boat, nounpaddle, nounpaddle, verbpaddle steamer, nounpassage, nounpelagic, adjectiveperiscope, nounpier, nounpilot, nounpilot, verbpitch, verbPlimsoll line, nounplot, verbply, verbpoop deck, nounport, nounporthole, nounport of call, nounpowerboat, nounprivateer, nounpromenade deck, nounpropeller, nounprow, nounpunt, nounpunt, verbpurser, nounquadrant, nounquarterdeck, nounquay, nounraft, nounrafting, nounreef, verbrefit, verbregatta, nounresurface, verbrig, verbrig, nounrigging, nounroll, verbroll, nounroll-on roll-off, adjectivero-ro, nounrow, verbrowboat, nounrowing, nounrowing boat, nounrowlock, nounrubber dinghy, nounrudder, nounsail, verbsail, nounsailboat, nounsailing, nounsailing boat, nounsailing ship, nounsailor, nounsaloon, nounsampan, nounschooner, nounscull, nounscull, verbscupper, verbscupper, nounscuttle, verbseaborne, adjectivesea captain, nounsea dog, nounseafaring, adjectiveseagoing, adjectivesea lane, nounsea legs, nounsealer, nounseaman, nounseamanship, nounseaworthy, adjectivesheet, nounship, nounshipmate, nounshipping, nounshipping lane, nounship's chandler, nounshipwreck, nounshipwright, nounshipyard, nounside-wheeler, nounskiff, nounskull and crossbones, nounslaver, nounslipway, nounsloop, nounsluice, nounsmack, nounsonar, nounspar, nounspeedboat, nounsplice, verbSS, starboard, nounsteam, verbsteamboat, nounsteamer, nounsteamship, nounsteerage, nounsteersman, nounstern, nounstevedore, nounsteward, nounstewardess, nounstoker, nounsub, nounsubmarine, nounsubmarine, adjectivesubmersible, nounsundeck, nounsupertanker, nounswab, verbswell, nounswing bridge, nountack, nountack, verbtender, nounthird class, nountiller, nountonnage, nountopside, adverbtowpath, nountransport, nountransport ship, nountrawler, nountrim, verbtrimaran, nountroopship, nountub, nountug, nounupstream, adverbvessel, nounvoyage, nounvoyage, verbwake, nounwardroom, nounwarship, nounwaterborne, adjectivewaterlogged, adjectivewaterway, nounweir, nounwhaler, nounwheelhouse, nounwhirlpool, nounwindjammer, nounwindward, adjectivewreck, nounyachting, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
· They’re sailing a boat down the coast of Portugal.
· Are you any good at rowing a boat?
· Why don’t we take the boat out on the river?
· He steered the boat carefully to the shore.
(=put it in the water)· Where’s the best place to launch the boat?
(=tie it to something so that it stays in one place)· You can tie up the boat to that tree.· How much does it cost to moor a boat here?
(=moves from side to side in the water)· The little boat was rocking in the wind.
(=turns over in the water)· Will stood up suddenly and the boat capsized.
(=turns over in the water)
· The boat sank in a storm.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + boat
· The fishing boats go out to sea early in the morning.
British English
British English
(also a narrow boat British English) (=for use on canals)· We had a holiday on a canal boat in France.
(=a small boat that people use on a lake, river etc)
boat + NOUN
· You can take a boat trip to the islands nearby.
· There’s a boat race on the river tomorrow.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=used by the army or police)
· It’s legal to gamble on horse races.
· A rescue helicopter is on its way.
· They took a boat trip to see the seals.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Down below were lots of fishing boats and I decided to wait until they returned to the harbour.· Bathing huts, a steam engine, cavalry on manoeuvre and beached fishing boats: it must have been lovely.· Sexennarian A long fishing boat propelled by six oars.· Displays include Eyemouth tapestry, history of Berwickshire fanning and fishing, and the wheelhouse of a modern fishing boat.· Then they spotted a fishing boat, near the northernmost reef.· Fred Normandale, a leading skipper, told the harbour committee yesterday that scallops were now attracting fishing boats from other areas.· At busy times, 100 or more fishing boats often work in the area.
· Quickly, I put my little boat in the water and sailed out to it.· Ram Rahim was confident beneath me, a snug little boat on a big sea.· That sets the little boats rocking like crazy, like there's a sudden storm or summat.· Because a little boat has been found sunken with some kind of stains on it that may be blood.· Eventually they grow tired of this and decide to take the little wooden rowing boat out on to the lake.· My little boat sailed bravely against the wind, straight into the rocks.· It's a lovely little boat to drive.· He was saying that he would sail the Channel in his little boat.
· Don't get me wrong - I love narrow boat life.· Above: The elaborately decorated cabin of a narrow boat.· She hadn't known, when she agreed to Caro's suggestion, that her friend lived on a narrow boat.· Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats.· Even so, Robbie breathed more easily once she had put the length of the narrow boat between them.· The wind howled dolefully, making the narrow boat sway and rock at her moorings.· Fen's words about narrow boat life not being all glamour returned to mock her.· The thought of a day, let alone months, spent on board a narrow boat would fill her with horror.
· They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows, then took a rowing boat on the River Dee.· The Cam always looks so peaceful, especially so on a winter's day with no punts or rowing boats in sight.· You may also fish, or hire windsurfing boards and rowing boats on this lake.· At the water's edge a rowing boat was beached.· A scruffy card showed a rowing boat floating towards a bank.· It was a bit like the rowing boat trying to make headway against the flow of the river near the weir.· Not even a rowing boat on the river.
· But a sleek sailing boat that spends all its time in harbour is no use to anyone.· You see sailing boats gliding along, their huge sails gracefully bending to the wind.· She liked the video vessel very much but she adores her real sailing boat.· They were little sailing boats, and they went all round, down to Ireland and Cornwall at different times.· You at the helm of the small, wooden sailing boat with the green line around it.· They were in a sailing boat, as far out as the trawler, both of them older, eighteen or nineteen.· Gordon Hamilton will have time for sailing boats only in his bath.· He studied the sailing boat for a while, smiling to himself.
· She rounded a corner quickly; in a tiny estuary the small boats of the eel pickers were congregated.· Three hours later, to our puzzlement, a small fishing boat scurried up in our wake, firing red distress rockets.· The town itself has grown up around the river Ribe which has afforded it docking facilities for small boats.· Since Thursday, he said, Coast Guard cutters and smaller boats have criss-crossed 17, 500 square miles.· There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel.· All around us small fishing boats were wheeling and stopping as they set and retrieved nets.· A few small boats gently disturbed the ripples where the water's edge met the beach.· But their salaries bring up the smaller boats.
NOUN
· For most purposes the floor of a canal boat may be considered stable, like that of a domestic interior.· Stages and canal boats had been crowded with visitors descending on the twin communities.· When canal boats are taken out of the water for repairs they are winched sideways up a slipway.· Born on a canal boat, she had a brief childhood before learning to lead the mules that pull the boat.· The little sketch of Crinan Canal shows the halting-place where passengers wait to re-embark on board the canal boat.· Early steam engines were not very suitable for powering canal boats because of their large size.· Transport includes canal boats from Village to Olympic centre.
· Their lead over the patrol boat was down to two hundred yards.· But lifeguards on a patrol boat sent to the area could not locate the whale.· Despite the protection of the reef, there was sufficient sea running to make the patrol boat roll through sixty degrees.· He didn't bother to look back to see whether the shots were coming from the patrol boat or from the tender.· Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat.· Trent looked back straight into the bows of the patrol boat.
· A holding camp designed for 480 boat people has been brimming with more than 1,000.· He said that the deportations could jeopardise international negotiations aimed at finding a long-term solution to the boat people problem.· No reprieve for the boat people.· The Government would seek international co-operation on checking the inflow of boat people at January's Geneva conference meeting.· A further 40,000 boat people still waiting to be screened will almost certainly be ruled illegal as well.· Quiet reaction in camps masks desperation of boat people.
· It begins with scenes of Frank Spencer in his latest, shortlived job as the skipper of a pleasure boat.· The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore.· Music and voices came gusting from moored pleasure boats across the plum-red water.· He saved twelve lives when a pleasure boat capsized in heavy surf at Corona del Mar in California in June 1925.· These days, the Canal Basin bustles not with goods but with pleasure boats.· Local environmentalists had speculated whether heavy pleasure boat and fishing craft use of the lake might have resulted in lead pollution.· Local Activities: Walks, surfing, golf, diving, fishing, bird-watching, pleasure boat trips, sandy beaches.· The contrast with today couldn't have been greater-we even took a pleasure boat over the same stretch of water.
· And red-breasted merganser headed purposefully out to sea - as our four-hour boat trip came to an end.· The equity department was planning a boat trip to become further acquainted with the trainees on its short list.· Take a boat trip upstream along the Swan River through vineyards, stopping off to visit wineries.· A two-hour boat trip will take you to Lundy Island, once famous for its pirates and now for its puffins.· A festival, a boat trip, climbing to the top of a hill.· Glass-bottom boat trips are also available.· I didn't really wake up until we made the short boat trip to Ellis Island.
VERB
· So technology that builds the boats leads directly to biological adaptation and evolution.· A child may begin by building a block boat and constructing the story behind that boat.· The transport committee yesterday approved plans to build another boat.· Later on, in my teens, I built model airplanes and boats.· Above: Harland & Wolff's yard on the River Thames built many boats at a time.· Quick quiz A man stranded on a desert island builds a rowing boat and sets out for the nearest land.· He was going to build boats, like his grandfather.
· Chequers fishing well off the boats and around the lone tree.· Her home consists of two battered green fishing boats tied together a few feet off a stretch of garbage-strewn Nile shoreline.· There are shops of most trades, restaurants, pubs, cafes, fishing and boat trips and a beach.· Three hours later, to our puzzlement, a small fishing boat scurried up in our wake, firing red distress rockets.· Pleasure boats and fishing boats had once been stored in the vast rooms below the earth.· That afternoon we saw that two of the fishing boats were preparing to leave port.· If Itado was unsafe for powerful modern fishing boats then it was certainly not the place for Hsu Fu to stay.· A spectacular, widely observed meteorite fall in Newfoundland on October 19, 1936, set a fishing boat afire.
· True to form, he missed the boat.· And feminism has missed the boat, Roiphe says, by focusing on the wrong things.· Now Celtic may have missed the boat!· But Carlsbad itself is missing the boat in another respect.· Yet the sense of having missed a once-on-a-lifetime boat remains acute.· Sorry, I missed the boat.· Frankly, he's missed the boat with Rosa.· On certain policy issues, politicians also miss the boat.
· Leaving Joe and his son to return to Fancy, we pushed the boat out to sea and ploughed down to Richmond.· We would push out the boat, hoist the sail and visit the lobster pots and conger lines.· Verily, these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives ... somewhere.
· Injuries to Strachan and Sterland rocked the boat last year.· To refrain from rocking the boat.· Custom, practice and a tacit agreement not to rock the boat did the rest.· The local party leaders, anxious to rock no ideological boats in the unstable times, left them alone.· Who the hell would want to rock the boat on a deal like that!· Of course you rock the boat!· If she didn't like it then it was her fault for rocking the boat.· Sixty percent of professors are moral cowards unwilling to rock the boat and therefore willing to tolerate the others.
· Watersports: On the Fuschlsee you can hire electrically-powered boats, rowing boats, pedaloes, and also sail or windsurf.· Grace quickly rowed the boat out to sea again.· A few minutes later I heard the splash of oars, and a rowing boat came into view manned by three crewmen.· Eventually they grow tired of this and decide to take the little wooden rowing boat out on to the lake.· Yesterday he was rowing with the boat race squad on this stretch of Thames at Wallingford when he complained he felt unwell.· Lachian rows the boat to the middle of the loch and then he jumps in the water and starts pretending to drown.· He and I used to row our boats up and down the river together.
· It couldn't be that difficult to sail a boat.· However, I saw land some hours later, and I managed to sail the boat to it.· We would learn about boats and sailing, about boat charters and the travel business.· How most people prefer to be actively involved in sailing the boat rather than just sitting and admiring the view.
· They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows, then took a rowing boat on the River Dee.· One day this son of a landowner was about to take his boat out for a leisurely day of fishing.· Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level.· He donned rubber coat and boots and took to his boat.· They had taken their boat into the edge of the forest, up the river that you saw.· Were they taking over my boat?· They took larger boats, had fewer engineering problems and provided good links to the northern seaports.· In the summer, children swam, took boat rides, and sometimes even looked for fish in the river.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Everyone is in the same boat today.
  • If marriage is a boat, then many of us are in the same boat!
  • So we are in the same boat with our ancestors!
  • We should all be in the same boat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • And, now she'd burnt her boats so very finally, he would want it back.
  • He was not one for burning his boats.
  • She had indeed burnt her boats.
  • She was acutely aware that she had burnt her boats.
► whatever floats your boat
  • Buy your shares in the company now or you'll miss the boat.
  • Customers were worried about missing the boat by not buying any stocks.
  • He didn't get his application in early enough so he missed the boat.
  • And feminism has missed the boat, Roiphe says, by focusing on the wrong things.
  • And there was this old comic called Jack Daw, who'd missed the boat on account of booze.
  • But Carlsbad itself is missing the boat in another respect.
  • Frankly, he's missed the boat with Rosa.
  • Now Celtic may have missed the boat!
  • On certain policy issues, politicians also miss the boat.
  • Sorry, I missed the boat.
  • True to form, he missed the boat.
  • Leaving Joe and his son to return to Fancy, we pushed the boat out to sea and ploughed down to Richmond.
  • As long as you don't rock the boat, nobody cares what you do.
  • Judge Thurgood Marshall never hesitated to rock the boat, from the beginning of his long legal career.
  • We have a pretty good life here. Why rock the boat?
  • Custom, practice and a tacit agreement not to rock the boat did the rest.
  • If she didn't like it then it was her fault for rocking the boat.
  • Injuries to Strachan and Sterland rocked the boat last year.
  • Of course you rock the boat!
  • Sixty percent of professors are moral cowards unwilling to rock the boat and therefore willing to tolerate the others.
  • To refrain from rocking the boat.
  • Waves from a passing freighter rocked the boat, Swensson says, throwing him to the deck.
  • Who the hell would want to rock the boat on a deal like that!
  • And Fakhru was in the same boat: calm because he was prepared for the inevitable disaster.
  • Everyone is in the same boat today.
  • If marriage is a boat, then many of us are in the same boat!
  • So we are in the same boat with our ancestors!
  • We should all be in the same boat.
1a vehicle that travels across water:  a fishing boat The boat capsized (=turned over) in heavy seas. a boat trip around the islandsby boat Some of the beaches can only be reached by boat.on/in a boat MacKay said he would sleep on his boat. → lifeboat, motorboat, powerboat, speedboat, steamboat2informal a ship, especially one that carries passengers:  We’re taking the night boat to St. Malo.3be in the same boat (as somebody) to be in the same unpleasant situation as someone else:  Everyone has lost their job. We’re all in the same boat. → gravy boat, sauce boat, → burn your bridges/boats at burn1(18), → miss the boat at miss1(14), → push the boat out at push1(15), → rock the boat at rock2(3)COLLOCATIONSverbssail a boat· They’re sailing a boat down the coast of Portugal.row a boat· Are you any good at rowing a boat?take a boat out· Why don’t we take the boat out on the river?steer a boat· He steered the boat carefully to the shore.launch a boat (=put it in the water)· Where’s the best place to launch the boat?tie up/moor a boat (=tie it to something so that it stays in one place)· You can tie up the boat to that tree.· How much does it cost to moor a boat here?a boat rocks (=moves from side to side in the water)· The little boat was rocking in the wind.a boat capsizes/overturns (=turns over in the water)· Will stood up suddenly and the boat capsized.a boat overturns (=turns over in the water)a boat sinks· The boat sank in a storm.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + boata fishing boat· The fishing boats go out to sea early in the morning.a rowing boat British Englisha sailing boat British Englisha canal boat (also a narrow boat British English) (=for use on canals)· We had a holiday on a canal boat in France.a pleasure boat (=a small boat that people use on a lake, river etc)boat + NOUNa boat trip· You can take a boat trip to the islands nearby.a boat race· There’s a boat race on the river tomorrow.THESAURUStypes of boatyacht a large boat with a sail, used for pleasure or sportsailing boat British English, sailboat American English a boat that uses one or more sailsrowing boat British English, rowboat American English a small boat that you move through the water with oarsdinghy a small open boat used for pleasure, or for taking people between a ship and the shorecatamaran a sailing boat with two separate hulls (=the part that goes in the water)trimaran a sailing boat with three separate hullssbarge a large low boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy goods on a canal or rivercanal boat (also narrow boat British English) a boat that you use on canalscanoe a long light boat that is open at the top and pointed at both ends, which you move along using a paddle. Canoes are for one to three peoplekayak a light boat for one or two people, that is pointed at both ends and covered on top. A kayak has round holes on top in which the people sit, and you move it along using a paddle.punt a long thin boat with a flat bottom that you move by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river – used for pleasurehouseboat a boat that is specially made so that you can live on itpleasure boat a small boat, for example a sailing boat or a rowing boat, that people use on a lake, river etc: · People were out on the lake in pleasure boats. → ship1
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