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Definition: Boat Race |
Boat RaceNoun1. A race between people rowing or driving boats. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contention | Competition, rivalry; corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana; boat race, torpids. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
"I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge." -John Snagge.
Because of this event, boat race has become rhyming slang for face. There are a number of boat races around the world, some of which take place in dry rivers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Boat Race."
Crosswords: Boat Race |
| English words defined with "boat race": boat-race ♦ Cox. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Boat Race Mystery (1915) Auto Boat Race On the Hudson (1904) Boat Race (1899) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Yale - Harvard boat race, 1905. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
boat race | 124 |
sail boat race | 20 |
power boat race | 13 |
boat race sarasota | 9 |
boat race sale | 9 |
boat race sprint | 4 |
boat race small | 3 |
bermuda boat race sail | 3 |
boat race wood | 3 |
boat race waco | 3 |
boat race wooden | 3 |
aluminum boat race | 3 |
boat race speed | 3 |
boat race texas | 2 |
800 boat race yukon | 2 |
boat race tug | 2 |
apba boat race | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "boat race"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سباق الزوارق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | състезание с лодки. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | course d'aviron. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | regatta (regatta, yacht race). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λεμβοδρομία (boatrace, regatta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 競艇 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょうそう (able-bodied, competition, contest, mania, race, regatta, robust, strong, sturdy, wild excitement), きょうてい (agreement, arrangement, curriculum, pact, textbook, the bottom of one's heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ratch baatey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oatbay aceray regata (regatta). (various references) regatã (regatta), concurs de canotaj. (various references) regata (race, race boat, regatta). (various references) kapprodd. (various references) ใบหน้า (face). (various references) kürek yarışı. (various references) змагання з веслування. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: abreact, acrobat, bearcat, cabaret. | |
-2 letters: abater, abator, aortae, boater, borate, carate, coater, rabato, rebato. | |
-3 letters: abate, abort, acerb, aceta, actor, aorta, areca, boart, brace, bract, caber, carat, carbo, caret, carob, carte, cater, cobra, crate, oater, ocrea, orate, rabat, react, reata, recta, recto, taber, tabor, taroc, trace. | |
-4 letters: abet, acre, acta, aero, arco, area, bare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aerobatic, ascorbate, carbonate. | |
+2 letters: abreaction, aerobatics, ascorbates, carbonated, carbonates, factorable. | |
+3 letters: abreactions, absorptance, azotobacter, bicarbonate, broadcasted, broadcaster, carboxylate, collaborate, decarbonate, rebroadcast, relocatable. | |
+4 letters: absorptances, azotobacters, bacteriostat, bicarbonates, broadcasters, carbohydrate, carboxylated, carboxylates, collaborated, collaborates, contrabasses, contrastable, correlatable, decarbonated, decarbonates, exacerbation, forecastable, mycobacteria, nonbacterial, overabstract, rebroadcasts, secobarbital. | |
+5 letters: abortifacient, bacteriophage, bacteriophagy, bacteriostats, bacterization, campylobacter, carbohydrates, collaborative, cyanobacteria, decarbonating, decarbonation, decarboxylate, exacerbations, mycobacterial, overabstracts, particleboard, polycarbonate, problematical, recalibration, secobarbitals. | |
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