What's the difference between boat and waterboard?

Boat


Definition:

  • (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”.

Waterboard


Definition:

  • (n.) A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a previous statement , following the damning Senate report on the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) such as waterboarding, Emmerson pointed out that the UN convention against torture required states to prosecute acts of torture where there was sufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction.
  • (2) Although he didn’t personally witness the waterboarding or zipping, he had on two or three occasions witnessed asylum seekers walking out of a tent wet and coughing up water.
  • (3) The senior officials signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al-Qaida suspects - whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to waterboarding.
  • (4) Support for waterboarding would not undercut such advocacy, he insisted.
  • (5) He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there had been and still were "real plots", but added that "we're not convinced" that waterboarding produced information which was "instrumental in preventing these plots coming to fruition and murdering people".
  • (6) The forward propulsion of the programme was such that viewers could hardly help themselves: their adrenaline pumping, they found themselves urging Bauer to waterboard suspected terrorists, if that's what was needed to stop the ticking bomb.
  • (7) A footnote to another 2005 justice department memo released last week said waterboarding was used both more frequently and with a greater volume of water than the CIA rules permitted.
  • (8) This is no surprise as the probe was limited to unauthorised acts, and could not examine authorised acts like waterboarding.
  • (9) It is absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding,” he said.
  • (10) When he could tell that Lauer was about to ask a question he didn't like – why didn't he replace Rumsfeld after the Abu Ghraib scandal, what did he think when even Republicans were criticising the surge in 2006, didn't he get only the legal advice that said what he wanted it to – Bush's response, every time, was a self-defensive smile (which looked particularly weird when Lauer was reeling off details of waterboarding), followed by overly expansive hand gestures and, finally, sharp aggression shutting the question down.
  • (11) She has insisted that information obtained by waterboarding did not play a significant role in the search for Bin Laden.
  • (12) Presented with Trump’s statement that he would go beyond waterboarding, Burr simply replied: “I would not support bringing back waterboarding.” Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump surrogate who sits on the Senate armed services committee, sought to downplay some of the billionaire’s more outlandish comments on torture and targeting the families of terrorists.
  • (13) The US Justice Department memos released last Thursday showed that waterboarding, which the US now admits is torture, was used 83 times on the alleged al-Qaida senior commander Abu Zubaydah, the paper said.
  • (14) Though Barack Obama has banned US agencies from using forms of torture such as waterboarding, Pakistani questioning techniques are frequently brutal.
  • (15) The US government has acknowledged that he was subject to "waterboarding", an interrogation technique that simulates drowning, and it is unclear whether statements he has made while in US custody would be used against him in civilian trial.
  • (16) Vice President Dick Cheney: "The driving force behind the establishment of illegal detention and interrogation policies, chairing key meetings at which specific CIA operations were discussed, including the waterboarding of one detainee, Abu Zubaydah, in 2002."
  • (17) If they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding,” Trump told NBC’s Today Show .
  • (18) In 2009, for example, he said he believed that “waterboarding”, one of several controversial interrogation methods used by US intelligence agencies during George W Bush’s administration, constituted torture, and that “whatever legal rationales were used, it was a mistake”.
  • (19) And he revealed that he would disobey orders if Trump ordered him to use waterboarding, and that most in the agency were also opposed.
  • (20) The new prime minister appoints as finance minister the radical economist Yanis Varoufakis , who has described austerity programmes as “fiscal waterboarding”.

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