The difference between Boat and Cutter

When used as nouns, boat means 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, whereas cutter means a person or device that cuts (in various senses).

Boat is also verb with the meaning: to travel by boat.

check bellow for the other definitions of Boat and Cutter

  1. Boat as a noun:

    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.

  2. Boat as a noun (poker slang):

    A full house.

  3. Boat as a noun:

    A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

    Examples:

    "a stone boat;  a gravy boat'"

  4. Boat as a noun (chemistry):

    One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

  5. Boat as a noun (AU, politics, informal):

    The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

  1. Boat as a verb (intransitive):

    To travel by boat.

  2. Boat as a verb (transitive):

    To transport in a boat.

    Examples:

    "to boat goods"

  3. Boat as a verb (transitive):

    To place in a boat.

    Examples:

    "to boat oars"

  1. Cutter as a noun:

    A person or device that cuts (in various senses).

    Examples:

    "a stone cutter; a die cutter"

  2. Cutter as a noun (nautical):

    A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.

  3. Cutter as a noun:

    A foretooth; an incisor.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ray"

  4. Cutter as a noun:

    A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.

    Examples:

    "a [[coastguard]] cutter."

  5. Cutter as a noun (nautical):

    A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.

  6. Cutter as a noun (cricket):

    A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.

  7. Cutter as a noun (baseball):

    A cut fastball.

  8. Cutter as a noun (slang):

    A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.

  9. Cutter as a noun (slang):

    A person who practices self-injury.

  10. Cutter as a noun (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous, or, pejorative):

    A surgeon.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: slasher"

  11. Cutter as a noun (obsolete):

    An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

  12. Cutter as a noun (obsolete):

    A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.

  13. Cutter as a noun (obsolete):

    A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.

  14. Cutter as a noun:

    A light sleigh drawn by one horse.

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