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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
Synonyms:
racing yacht; yacht
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("yacht" is a kind of...):
vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)
Derivation:
yacht (travel in a yacht)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel in a yacht
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "yacht" is one way to...):
boat (ride in a boat on water)
Domain category:
navigation; pilotage; piloting (the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
yacht (an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing)
yachting (water travel for pleasure)
Context examples:
He started in his little yacht for Norway just before the warrant was issued for his arrest.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Likewise they decree the things that are not shop and which may be talked about, and those things are the latest operas, latest novels, cards, billiards, cocktails, automobiles, horse shows, trout fishing, tuna-fishing, big-game shooting, yacht sailing, and so forth—and mark you, these are the things the idlers know.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
To the young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, the yacht represented all the beauty and glamor in the world.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"I adore it!" exclaimed Daisy. "The pompadour! You never told me you had a pompadour—or a yacht."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows along shore.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career—when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid journalism of 1902.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
