Rigid Definition–adjective | 1. | stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal. |
| 3. | inflexible, strict, or severe: a rigid disciplinarian; rigid rules of social behavior. |
| 4. | exacting; thorough; rigorous: a rigid examination. |
| 5. | so as to meet precise standards; stringent: lenses ground to rigid specifications. |
| 6. | Mechanics. of, pertaining to, or noting a body in which the distance between any pair of points remains fixed under all forces; having infinite values for its shear modulus, bulk modulus, and Young's modulus. |
| 7. | Aeronautics. | a. | (of an airship or dirigible) having a form maintained by a stiff, unyielding structure contained within the envelope. |
| b. | pertaining to a helicopter rotor that is held fixedly at its root. |
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Inflatable Definition–adjective | 1. | capable of being inflated. |
| 2. | designed or built to be inflated before use. |
–noun | 3. | an inflatable object, device, or structure, esp. a small rubber boat that is inflated with air. |
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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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