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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
yacht
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a luxury ship/yacht
▪ He'd booked a holiday on a luxury cruise ship.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
luxury
▪ You can enjoy the water in a small dinghy as much as in a luxury yacht.
▪ She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht.
▪ Diana climbed aboard one boat with children William and Harry for the short hop to their luxury yacht.
new
▪ The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.
▪ Before the opening of this new marina, yachts had to detour to the south to the Canaries.
▪ I've designed a new yacht which we believe stands an excellent chance of winning the next round-the-world race.
royal
▪ Ironically, for two weeks in 1981, the royal yacht was the luxurious honeymoon base for Charles and Diana.
▪ It had a single curved platform and a handsome waiting-room, and provided access from the railway to the royal yacht.
▪ On board the royal yacht, with its 21officers and 256 men, they were never left alone.
▪ She will also hold a reception on the Royal yacht Britannia.
▪ The Royals seem to use the royal yacht purely for privileged leisure cruising - at our vast expense.
■ NOUN
britannia
▪ She will also hold a reception on the Royal yacht Britannia.
club
▪ However, the yacht club flourishes, and the regatta is still held.
▪ He could have drowned rowing back from the yacht club.
▪ One day I went to the nearby yacht club where a open-air reggae festival continued well into the night.
▪ No evidence of a Buchanan trust fund or yacht club membership, however.
▪ There is also a marina yacht club and a licensed restaurant barge at South Dock.
▪ The yacht club, the Presidio, the park, and of course the bridge dominated the view to the left.
motor
▪ Sheets in, he bore away from the motor yacht.
▪ This one concerned a motor yacht making a run with spirits from the Channel Isles.
▪ Sailing yachts 31-53 feet, motor yachts 37-46 feet, plus an extensive range of crewed sail and motor yachts 42-120 feet.
▪ By Cairnbaan only three motor yachts had puttered by.
▪ White-hulled, she was a sleek ninety-foot Baglietto motor yacht.
▪ Easing Golden Girl up under mainsail, Trent watched the motor yacht roll gently in the swell.
race
▪ The thing flapped around like a sail in a transatlantic yacht race, you could have gone surfing on it.
▪ In the 1972 single-handed Transatlantic yacht race, a number of hallucinations and illusions were experienced, some of them premonitions.
▪ To improve its image, the firm is splashing out £3 million on sponsoring a boat in the 1993 round-the-world yacht race.
▪ The toughest yacht race in the world will have changed the 140 people who took part, some perhaps for ever.
■ VERB
sail
▪ Newall, 27, was arrested by a Royal Navy frigate sailing his yacht off Casablanca.
▪ The veterinarians must be sailing in yachts, surely.
▪ Windsurfers on the plane Nor is this like sailing a yacht!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He could have drowned rowing back from the yacht club.
▪ Sometimes you may spot an occasional dorsal fin when it pops out like a miniature yacht sail.
▪ 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.
▪ The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.
▪ The resourceful youngster has overhauled the yacht and drummed up sponsors largely by himself.
▪ We provide a comprehensive range of sizes to suit every yacht specification for leisure use or for the longest of passages.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yacht

Yacht \Yacht\ (y[o^]t), n. [D. jagt, jacht; perhaps properly, a chase, hunting, from. jagen to chase, hunt, akin to G. jagen, OHG. jag[=o]n, of uncertain origin; or perhaps akin to OHG. g[=a]hi quick, sudden (cf. Gay).] (Naut.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.

Yacht measurement. See the Note under Tonnage, 4.

Yacht

Yacht \Yacht\, v. i. To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yacht

1550s, yeaghe "a light, fast-sailing ship," from Norwegian jaght or early Dutch jaght, both from Middle Low German jacht, shortened form of jachtschip "fast pirate ship," literally "ship for chasing," from jacht "chase," from jagen "to chase, hunt," from Old High German jagon, from Proto-Germanic *yago-, from PIE root *yek- (2) "to hunt" (cognates: Hittite ekt- "hunting net"). Related: Yachting; yachtsman.

Wiktionary
yacht

n. A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock. vb. (label en intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

WordNet
yacht

n. an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing [syn: racing yacht]

yacht

v. travel in a yacht

Wikipedia
Yacht

A yacht is a recreational boat or ship. The term originates from the Dutch word jacht "hunt", and was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries. After its selection by Charles II of England as the vessel to carry him to England from the Netherlands for his restoration in 1660, it came to be used to mean a vessel used to convey important persons.

Modern use of the term designates two different classes of watercraft, sailing and power boats. Yachts differ from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose, and it was not until the rise of the steamboat and other types of powerboat that sailing vessels in general came to be perceived as luxury, or recreational vessels. Later the term came to encompass motor boats for primarily private pleasure purposes as well.

Yacht lengths normally range from up to dozens of meters (hundreds of feet). A luxury craft smaller than is more commonly called a cabin cruiser or simply a cruiser. A superyacht generally refers to any yacht (sail or power) above and a megayacht generally refers to any yacht over . This size is small in relation to typical cruise liners and oil tankers.

Yacht (band)

Yacht (stylized as YACHT, Y△CHT or Y▲CHT) is an American dance-pop band from Portland, Oregon, currently based in Los Angeles, California. The core group consists of Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, and when touring expands to include Rob " Bobby Birdman" Kieswetter.

Yacht has released albums on States Rights Records, Marriage Records, DFA Records, and Downtown Records.

Yacht (dice game)

Yacht is a public domain dice game, similar to the Latin American game Generala, the English game of Poker Dice, the Scandinavian Yatzy, and Cheerio. Yacht dates back to at least 1938. Yahtzee is a later development, similar to Yacht in both name and content.

The name Yacht is also used for a number of later dice games that include many features of Yahtzee, being closer to Yahtzee than the original Yacht game.

Yacht (disambiguation)

A yacht is a boat and also a sailing class ( sailing yacht).

The term Yacht may also refer to:

  • Yacht (band), an American band
  • Yachts (band), a British band
  • Yacht (dice game), a dice game

Usage examples of "yacht".

The androgynous computer voice signaled that the yacht was of Earth Alliance make.

This little yacht excursion in the Bahamas was a gift from the children to celebrate the twentieth wedding anniversary of Andrew and Billie.

Langeron and Yekaterininskaya streets, directly opposite the huge Fankoni Cafe where stockbrokers and grain merchants in Panama hats sat at marble-topped tables set out right on the pavement, Paris-style, under awnings and surrounded by potted laurel trees, the cab in which Auntie and Pavlik were travelling was all but overturned by a bright-red automobile driven by the heir to the famous Ptashnikov Bros, firm, a grotesquely bloated young man in a tiny yachting cap, who looked amazingly like a prize Yorkshire pig.

The living man was clutching a horrible stone idol of unknown origin, about foot in height, regarding whose nature authorities at Sydney University, the Royal Society, and the Museum in College Street all profess complete bafflement, and which the survivor says he found in the cabin of the yacht, in a small carved shrine of common pattern.

I do not know why he needs the Biter, he uses her somehow like old King Charlie used his yachts, in golden days.

And so six times a day all traffic on the carriageway was forced to halt for twenty minutes while that beneath floated through on the tide: hoys and shallops headed upstream with loads of malt and dried haddock, bumboats and pinnaces going downstream with hogsheads of ale and sugar for the merchantmen at Tower Dock, sometimes even the yacht of the King himself on its way to the races at Greenwich, masts swaying and sails crackling.

He was flying the burgee of the New York Yacht Club when he put in here, and so we were forced to take him.

By the end of the second week after the yacht had sailed, Ett and Rico put themselves in the hands of Cye Morecki, a MOGOW who had been brought to the island in great secrecy a few days earlier with the ultimate purpose of working on Wally.

The yacht, after the explosion at the datcha, took up two men who put off to it in a canoe, and since then it has simply sailed back and forth in the gulf.

Stone arrived back aboard the yacht, Liz, Callie and Dino were all waiting for him.

Gradually, the big yacht drifted toward the seawall, then Dino was throwing ropes to the men ashore.

Elliott was appropriately dressed in white slacks and a light-blue polo shirt, the latter bearing the club crest-a quartered shield with palm tree rampant, engrailed crossed tennis racquets, golf clubs and a yacht, all on waves of the sea.

He recounted, with circumstantial exactitude, all the particulars of the supper, the hashish, the statues, the dream, and how, at his awakening, there remained no proof or trace of all these events, save the small yacht, seen in the distant horizon driving under full sail toward Porto-Vecchio.

Yacht, tempesta, il mondo e russava colla testa sopra un sasso ed i piedi vicini al fuoco, come se fosse in un letto di piume.

The day was extremely hot and I was wearing a short-sleeved fawn linen shirt made for me by Domediakis in Berwick Street, Soho, pale cream tropical nine-ounce double-pleated gabardine trousers from Adeney and Briggs and blue-and-white canvas yachting shoes.