What is the difference between boat and launch?
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A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
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A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
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(lb) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
To travel by boat.
To transport in a boat.
To place in a boat.
To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
* 2011 , Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 , page 323
(obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
* 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), The Teares of the Muses
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
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* 1725–1726 , (Alexander Pope), Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V
To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
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, title= (often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.
* 1718 , (Matthew Prior), Solomon: On the Vanity of the World , Preface
* 1969 , (Maya Angelou), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , ch. 23:
The act of launching.
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, title= The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
(nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
(nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
(nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha .)
In transitive terms the difference between boat and launch
is that boat is to place in a boat while launch is to send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.As nouns the difference between boat and launch
is that boat is a craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind while launch is the act of launching.As verbs the difference between boat and launch
is that boat is to travel by boat while launch is to throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.boat
English
(wikipedia boat)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
Usage notes
There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy.Synonyms
* (craft on or in water) craft, ship, vesselHyponyms
(Terms denoting specific kinds of boat) * (A craft on or in water) ark, bangca, barge, canoe, catamaran, caravel, carrack, coracle, cruiser, cutter, dhow, dinghy, dory, dragon boat, Dutch barge, East Indiaman, felucca, ferry, ferryboat, fishing boat, flatboat, folding boat, galley, galleon, gig, go-fast boat, gondola, guardboat, gunboat, houseboat, hovercraft, hydrofoil, hydroplane, iceboat, inflatable boat, inflatable raft, jetboat, jetski, junk, , kayak, keelboat, ketch, lifeboat, log boat, longboat, luxemotor, mackinaw boat, mailboat, motorboat, motorsailer, narrowboat, Norfolk wherry, outrigger canoe, paddleboat, peniche, pinnace, policeboat, powerboat, raft, rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB), riverboat, rowboat, sailboat, schooner, scow, seaboat, sealship, Seiner, ship of the line, skiff, sloop, steamboat, submarine, surfboat, swan boat, tender, tjalk, trawler, trireme, trimaran, troller, tug, tugboat, U-boat, wangkang, water taxi, whaleboat, yacht, yawlDerived terms
* boatable * boatage * boatbill * boatbuilder * boatel, botel * boater * boatful * boathook * boathouse * boatie * boating * boatless * boatlift * boatload * boatman, boatsman * boatmanship, boatsmanship * boatneck * boatslip * boatswain * boatswainbird * boattail * boatwoman * boatwright * boatyard * burn one's boats * float someone's boat * gravy boat * houseboat * in the same boat * longtail boat * miss the boat * narrowboat, narrow boat * push the boat out * rock the boat * speedboat * twist-boat * U-boatSee also
*References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(en verb)- to boat goods
- to boat oars
Statistics
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* 1000 English basic words ----launch
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Alternative forms
* lanch (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) /Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi ) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.Verb
(es)- There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears
- And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
- Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
- All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
Kill or cure, passage=On September 3rd Bionym, a Canadian firm, launched Nymi, a bracelet which detects the wearer’s heartbeat.}}
- In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths
- My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
Synonyms
* (to pierce) lance, pierceNoun
(es)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}