The difference between Boat and Dory

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 dory means a small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

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

Dory is also adjective with the meaning: of a bright yellow or golden color.

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  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. Dory as a noun (nautical):

    A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

  1. Dory as a noun:

    Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

  1. Dory as an adjective (obsolete):

    Of a bright yellow or golden color.

  1. Dory as a noun:

    A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.

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