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| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of being in a life-boat, denotes escape from threatened evil. To see a life-boat sinking, friends will contribute to your distress. To be lost in a life-boat, you will be overcome with trouble, in which your friends will be included to some extent. If you are saved, you will escape a great calamity. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Life-boat (A). A boat rendered especially buoyant for the purpose of saving those who are in peril of their life at sea. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Date "LIFE-BOAT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money" / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Three Pacific Fleet airmen who survived the ordeal of thirty-four days in this tiny rubber life-boat are shown shortly after they made safe landfall on a South Pacific Island to which they navigated after their bomber was forced down. Left to right are: A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "LIFE-BOAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | redningsbåd (lifeboat, ship's lifeboat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reddingsboot (life boat, lifeboat, salvage vessel, ship's lifeboat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | savboato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Frisian | reddingsboat, reddingboat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Rettungsboot (lifeboat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ife-boatlay спасательный лодка (lifeboat). (various references) livräddningsbåt, livbåt (lifeboat), skeppsbåt (launch), räddningsbåt (lifeboat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lifeboat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-i-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: foliate. | |
-2 letters: albeit, albite, boatel, boleti, fetial, foetal, foible, folate, lobate, obelia, oblate. | |
-3 letters: aboil, aloft, befit, biota, blate, bleat, blite, bloat, boite, botel, fable, fetal, filet, flite, float, flota, folia, obeli, table, telia, teloi, toile. | |
-4 letters: abet, able, alef, alif, alit, aloe, alto, bail, bait, bale, bate, beat, belt, beta, bile, bite, blae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-i-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: lifeboats. | |
+2 letters: clofibrate, notifiable, profitable. | |
+3 letters: clofibrates, forfeitable. | |
+4 letters: forgeability, tibiofibulae, unprofitable. | |
+5 letters: confiscatable, defibrillator, formabilities, nonfilterable, reformability. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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