(n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
(n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
(n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
(v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
(v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
(v. i.) To go or row in a boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
(2) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(3) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(4) As 1,000 fishing boats were on their way to the islands the Chinese know as Diaoyu and the Japanese call the Senkaku, the People's Daily warned on Monday that the incident could lead to a full-blown trade boycott.
(5) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
(6) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(7) The Queen Boat case was one of three big sex stories that helped to squeeze bad news out of the papers around the same time.
(8) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
(9) The Coalition and Labor share the policy of not offering resettlement to people who try to reach Australia by boat.
(10) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(11) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(12) Another 500 people were rescued from four different boats on Tuesday, the coastguard said in a statement.
(13) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
(14) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
(15) I must say that for the time being we are still missing some boats and aerial means.
(16) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(17) It was quoted in the grand jury indictment, and later a larger portion was included in one of the prosecution’s filings in the case: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thermal image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, shows the boat in which Jahar hid.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
(19) Five men were confined on a boat for fourteen days.
(20) First, the argument that balanced budgets and economic growth inevitably lead to a fairer society because “all boats rise on a rising tide”.
Overboard
Definition:
(adv.) Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) A traveler can go overboard in an attempt to avoid diarrheal illness.
(2) His announcement came hours after the Daily Telegraph reported the coaching allegations under the headline “Truth overboard”.
(3) People tend to get carried away, that’s going overboard completely,” Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka told the Guardian.
(4) With the captaincy, especially in England, we maybe go a bit overboard on it.
(5) Even today's chucking overboard of chairman Marcus Agius smacks of a firm doing the least it can, and hoping it doesn't have to do any more.
(6) Sewage collected in these pails was often dumped overboard into the harvesting area.
(7) We also went halfway towards rethinking the party itself in terms of new community organising models, but then that was also tossed overboard in favour of a much more centralised vote-harvesting operation around voter ID.
(8) The owner’s wife threatened to throw her passport overboard so she’d never see her family again.’ The next morning I saw her with her hands around the same girl’s throat.
(9) Those who were too ill to work were thrown overboard, some interviewees reported, while others said they were beaten if they so much as took a lavatory break.
(10) Labor in opposition, after the devastating defeat of 1996, threw overboard all of the work of the Keating government in a desperate attempt to distance itself from high interest rates, high unemployment, budget “black holes” and perceptions of arrogance.
(11) Towards the end of her time at sea, Azima saw an old man jump overboard after days of not eating or drinking.
(12) But by the time they had reached Hungary, prosperity was a distant memory and most of their possessions had gone, some stolen, others thrown overboard during the treacherouscrossing between Turkey and Greece.
(13) Several witnesses, including Fasher, say the boat was intercepted by Australian authorities after asylum seekers called for help when four passengers were washed overboard by an enormous wave.
(14) It is Tony Abbott's Tampa and together with the secrecy, you've got to wonder whether it's Scott Morrison's children overboard,” Hanson-Young said on Wednesday.
(15) ISS may recommend against ‘overboarded’ directors,” the advisory service said.
(16) "All of the camera equipment went overboard, and we were in the water, Leo, and everyone, and this incredibly heavy stuff was just being hurled about on eight-foot waves."
(17) And they knew that when any government measure, no matter how carefully crafted or beneficial, is subject to scorn; when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-American; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom; and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter that at that point we don't merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges.
(18) 36 That or there was one guy in every 100 who went massively overboard and bought 22 backups.
(19) "They need to be governed themselves because at times they go overboard on the rights."
(20) Italy’s coast guard was also searching the waters between Libya and Sicily after 107 survivors rescued from an overcrowded dinghy told authorities about 20 people had fallen overboard and their smugglers would not stop to pick them up.