boat vs nacelle

boat

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

  • 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. 

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

verb
  • To travel by boat. 

  • To transport in a boat. 

  • To place in a boat. 

nacelle

noun
  • The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH hulled boat. 

  • A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew. 

  • The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola. 

  • The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine. 

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