different between moose vs boat

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?os, IPA^(key): /mu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Homophone: mousse

Etymology 1

Earlier mus, moos, from an Eastern Algonquian language name for the animal, such as Massachusett moos, mws, Narragansett moos or Penobscot mos (cognate to Abenaki moz), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).

Noun

moose (plural moose or (dated, rare) mooses or (non-standard, jocular) meese)

1. (US, Canada) The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

   We saw a moose at the edge of the woods.

2. (informal) An ugly person.

Usage notes

• The usual plural of moose is moose; compare the names of many animals, such as deer and fish, which are also invariant. Other plurals are rare and non-standard: mooses (with the usual English plural-forming suffix -s) and meese (jocularly formed by analogy to goose ? geese).

Synonyms

• (largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus)): elk (British), Newfoundland speed bump (Canadian, humorous)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: mús
• ? Khmer: ????? (muuhs??)
• ? Korean: ?? (museu)
• ? Persian: ???? (mus)
  • ? Arabic: ????? (m??)
• ? Thai: ??? (múus)
  • Thai: ??????? (gwaang-mûut)

Translations

See also

• moose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Japanese ??? (“girl”).

Noun

moose

1. (US, military, slang) An Asian girl taken as a lover.
   • 2005, Rupert Nelson, Like the Rings of a Tree (page 279)

     In military bases in the rear areas it was common for soldiers to have a moose.

   • 2011, Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific (page 75)

     Even the lowest ranked serviceman, because of his salary, benefits, and status as an American occupationaire, could afford to “maintain a 'Moose' and still take care of his other obligations.

References

Ojibwe

Noun

moose (plural mooseg)

1. worm
2. caterpillar

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English mous

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mus]

Noun

moose (plural mice)

1. mouse

English

Etymology

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English b?t (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *bait? (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to break, split”). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”).

Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?t, IPA^(key): /b??t/
• Rhymes: -??t
• (General American) enPR: b?t, IPA^(key): /bo?t/

Noun

boat (plural boats)

1. 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.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
2. (poker slang) A full house.
3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

4. (chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
5. (Australia, politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

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. It is also the normal designation for a submarine (however large), and also for lakers (ships used in the Great Lakes trade in North America).

Synonyms

• (craft on or in water): craft, ship, vessel

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• Esperanto: boato
• Dhivehi: ????? (b??u)
• Fijian: boto
• Hijazi Arabic: ???? (b?t)
• Japanese: ??? (b?to)
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: boet (Norfuk)
• Sinhalese: ???????? (b???uwa)
• Swahili: boti
• Scots: boat, bote (compare native bait, bate)
• Tahitian: poti
• Tok Pisin: bot

See also

• Category:Watercraft

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Verb

boat (third-person singular simple present boats, present participle boating, simple past and past participle boated)

1. (intransitive) To travel by boat.
2. (transitive) To transport in a boat.

   to boat goods

3. (transitive) To place in a boat.

   to boat oars

Translations

Anagrams

• Bato, Tabo, atob, btoa

Finnish

Noun

boat

1. nominative plural of boa

Anagrams

• abot

Latin

Verb

boat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of bo?

Malay

Alternative forms

• buat

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buat/
• Rhymes: -uat, -wat, -at

Verb

boat (1701, used in the form berboat)

1. Obsolete form of buat.

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo??t/

Noun

boat n (plural boaten, diminutive boatsje or boatke)

1. boat

Derived terms

• stoomboat
• ûnderseeboat

Further reading

• “boat (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011