boat vs gondola

boat

verb
  • To travel by boat. 

  • To transport in a boat. 

  • To place in a boat. 

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. 

  • A full house. 

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

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

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

gondola

verb
  • To travel by gondola. 

noun
  • A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice. 

  • The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc. 

  • A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel. 

  • The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings. 

  • A free-standing shelving unit in a supermarket or other retail store. 

  • That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span. 

  • An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car. 

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