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Noun
S:
(n)
motorboat
,
powerboat
(a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine)
direct hyponym
/
full hyponym
part meronym
direct hypernym
/
inherited hypernym
/
sister term
S:
(n)
boat
(a small vessel for travel on water)
S:
(n)
ark
(a boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood)
S:
(n)
barge
,
flatboat
,
hoy
,
lighter
(a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals))
S:
(n)
bumboat
(a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor)
S:
(n)
canal boat
,
narrow boat
,
narrowboat
(a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals)
S:
(n)
catamaran
(a boat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck)
S:
(n)
ferry
,
ferryboat
(a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule)
S:
(n)
fireboat
(a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront)
S:
(n)
gondola
(long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice)
S:
(n)
guard boat
(a boat that is on guard duty (as in a harbor) around a fleet of warships)
S:
(n)
gunboat
(a small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols)
S:
(n)
junk
(any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails)
S:
(n)
longboat
(the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel)
S:
(n)
lugger
(small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails)
S:
(n)
mackinaw
,
Mackinaw boat
(a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes)
S:
(n)
mailboat
,
mail boat
,
packet
,
packet boat
(a boat for carrying mail)
S:
(n)
motorboat
,
powerboat
(a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine)
S:
(n)
pilot boat
(a boat to carry pilots to and from large ships)
S:
(n)
police boat
(a boat used by harbor police)
S:
(n)
punt
(an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole)
S:
(n)
river boat
(a boat used on rivers or to ply a river)
S:
(n)
scow
(any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends)
S:
(n)
sea boat
(a boat that is seaworthy; that is adapted to the open seas)
S:
(n)
small boat
(a boat that is small)
S:
(n)
steamboat
(a boat propelled by a steam engine)
S:
(n)
surfboat
(a boat that can be launched or landed in heavy surf)
S:
(n)
tender
,
ship's boat
,
pinnace
,
cutter
(a boat for communication between ship and shore)
S:
(n)
tugboat
,
tug
,
towboat
,
tower
(a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships)
derivationally related form
Verb
S:
(v)
motorboat
(ride in a motorboat)
direct hypernym
/
inherited hypernym
/
sister term
derivationally related form
W:
(n)
motorboat
[Related to:
motorboat
] (a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine)
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