Boat Definition–noun | 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. |
| 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. | Ecclesiastical. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer. |
–verb (used without object) | 8. | to go in a boat: We boated down the Thames. |
–verb (used with object) | 9. | to transport in a boat: They boated us across the bay. |
| 10. | to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Compare ship (def. 8). |
—Idioms| 11. | in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems: The new recruits were all in the same boat. |
| 12. | 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. |
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| 13. | rock the boat. rock2 (def. 15). |
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Insurance Definition–noun | 1. | the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one's person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved. |
| 2. | coverage by contract in which one party agrees to indemnify or reimburse another for loss that occurs under the terms of the contract. |
| 3. | the contract itself, set forth in a written or printed agreement or policy. |
| 4. | the amount for which anything is insured. |
| 6. | any means of guaranteeing against loss or harm: Taking vitamin C is viewed as an insurance against catching colds. |
–adjective | 7. | of or pertaining to a score that increases a team's lead and insures that the lead will be held if the opposing team should score once more: The home run gave the team an insurance run, making the score 7-5. |
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