| 单词 | boat |
| 释义 | boat —boatable, adj. —boatless, adj. /boht/, n. 1. a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion. 2. a small ship, generally for specialized use: a fishing boat. 3. a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat: They lowered the boats for evacuation. 4. a ship. 5. a vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water. 6. a serving dish resembling a boat: a gravy boat; a celery boat. 7. Eccles. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer. 8. in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems: The new recruits were all in the same boat. 9. miss the boat, Informal. a. to fail to take advantage of an opportunity: He missed the boat when he applied too late to get into college. b. to miss the point of; fail to understand: I missed the boat on that explanation. 10. rock the boat. See rock2 (def. 12). v.i. 11. to go in a boat: We boated down the Thames. v.t. 12. to transport in a boat: They boated us across the bay. 13. to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Cf. ship (def. 11). [bef. 900; ME boot (n.), OE bat; c. ON beit] |
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