yacht

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yacht /jɒt $ jɑːt/ noun [countable]

DSOa large boat with a sail, used for pleasure or sport, especially one that has a place where you can sleep 〔用于游玩或运动，尤指可以住宿的〕大游艇，大型帆船 → sailing boat, sailboat →4 See picture of 见图 yacht

Examples from the Corpus

yacht• We provide a comprehensive range of sizes to suit every yacht specification for leisure use or for the longest of passages.• Sometimes you may spot an occasional dorsal fin when it pops out like a miniature yacht sail.• The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.• He could have drowned rowing back from the yacht club.• The resourceful youngster has overhauled the yacht and drummed up sponsors largely by himself.• The yachts later picked up a freshening breeze which reached Force 5 approaching the island.• The yachts tacked back and forth across the Solent, and then moored up for a sumptuous lunch.Origin yacht (1500-1600) Early modern Dutch jaght, from Middle Low German jachtschiff “hunting ship”

yacht nounChinese

boat used pleasure with a or large a for sail, Corpus

yacht
yacht /jɒt $ jɑːt/

noun [countable]

Date: 1500-1600
Origin: Early modern Dutch jaght, from Middle Low German jachtschiff 'hunting ship'

a large boat with a sail, used for pleasure or sport, especially one that has a place where you can sleep ⇨ sailing boat, sailboat

THESAURUS

■ types of boat
   ▪ yacht a large boat with a sail, used for pleasure or sport
   ▪ sailing boat British English, sailboat American English a boat that uses one or more sails
   ▪ rowing boat British English, rowboat American English a small boat that you move through the water with oars
   ▪ dinghy a small open boat used for pleasure, or for taking people between a ship and the shore
   ▪ catamaran a sailing boat with two separate hulls (=the part that goes in the water)
   ▪ trimaran a sailing boat with three separate HULLSs
   ▪ barge a large low boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy goods on a canal or river
   ▪ canal boat (also narrow boat British English) a boat that you use on canals
   ▪ canoe a long light boat that is open at the top and pointed at both ends, which you move along using a paddle. Canoes are for one to three people
   ▪ kayak a light boat for one or two people, that is pointed at both ends and covered on top. A kayak has round holes on top in which the people sit, and you move it along using a paddle.
   ▪ punt a long thin boat with a flat bottom that you move by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river – used for pleasure
   ▪ houseboat a boat that is specially made so that you can live on it
   ▪ pleasure boat a small boat, for example a sailing boat or a rowing boat, that people use on a lake, river etc: People were out on the lake in pleasure boats.
    ⇨ ship

yacht

BrE

/jɒt/

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NAmE

/jɑːt/

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NAmE also

sail·boat

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noun