lifeboat

«lifeboat» in Mova's school dictionary: A strong boat kept on the coast that goes out to rescue… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a lifeboat, lifeboats)

meaning for a pupil

1) A strong boat kept on the coast that goes out to rescue people in danger at sea. tree →

2) A small boat carried on a ship, used to escape if the ship sinks. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons and stories the lifeboat crew rescue swimmers and sailors in storms; in the UK and Ireland the RNLI runs lifeboats, often with volunteers. The Titanic story is famous because there were not enough lifeboats. Phrases: «launch the lifeboat», «lifeboat crew», «lifeboat station», «lifeboat drill».

examples

• The lifeboat rescued two fishermen in the storm. tree →
• The Titanic did not have enough lifeboats for everyone. tree →
• My uncle is a volunteer on the lifeboat crew. tree →
• We visited the lifeboat station by the harbour. tree →
• The passengers climbed into the lifeboats. tree →
• Every ship has a lifeboat drill. tree →

note

Countable, one word. Similar: life raft (a floating raft), lifejacket (worn to float). Do not confuse with lifeguard (a person watching swimmers on a beach or at a pool).

In the corpora

• In the lifeboat dilemma there is room for only some people, and ethics asks which ways of choosing are fair.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lifeboat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.