What's the difference between a boat and a ship?

Whats the difference bewtween a ship an a boat?

  • even a submarine is called a boat so whats the difference between the two?

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    + A boat is a submarine. A ship is all other vessels onto which a boat can fit and be launched from.

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A boat is a more general term. All ships can be described as boats, but not all boats can be described as ships. Specifically, boats are constructed smaller than ships, and to travel either on inland bodies of water, or closer to a coastline. A ship is usually much larger, and constructed to travel across oceans or other larger bodies of water for longer periods of time. boat  /boʊt/ [boht] –noun 1. a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion. 2. a small ship, generally for specialized use: a fishing boat. 3. a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat: They lowered the boats for evacuation. 4. a ship. 5. a vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water. ship  /ʃɪp/ [ship] –noun 1. a vessel, esp. a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines. 2. Nautical. a. a sailing vessel square-rigged on all of three or more masts, having jibs, staysails, and a spanker on the aftermost mast. ETYMOLOGY: boat (n.) O.E. bat, from P.Gmc. *bait- (cf. O.N. beit), possibly from PIE base *bheid- "to split" (see fissure), with the sense of making a boat by hollowing out a tree trunk; or it may be an extension of the name for a part of a ship. ship (n.) O.E. scip "ship, boat," from P.Gmc. *skipan (cf. O.N., O.S., Goth. skip, Dan. skib, Swed. skepp, M.Du. scip, Du. schip, O.H.G. skif, Ger. Schiff), perhaps originally "tree cut out or hollowed out," and derived from PIE base *skei- "to cut, split." The O.E. word was used for small craft as well; in 19c., distinct from a boat in having a bowsprit and three masts, each with a lower, top, and topgallant mast. Fr. esquif, It. schifo are Gmc. loan-words. Ship-board "side of a ship" is from c.1200. Ship-shape "properly arranged" first attested 1644. Phrase ships that pass in the night is from Longfellow's poem "Aftermath" (1873). Phrase runs a tight ship is attested from 1971.

funnyrob01

Cause most people don't call them correctly. A ship is supposed to be considered a large vessel. Not sure what weight it has to be to be considered that. But a boat is usually smaller, more for local use, and such. Good luck.

Silverstang

Usually by the size.

expatmt

A boat can fit on a ship.

tonalc1

a boat is anything that will fit on a ship

tlacedaway

i forgot the exact def it has to do with decks....not the size, a 110' vessel is a ship but there are also other ships that are larger and can carry it, so there goes all those other theories

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