steamboat

«steamboat» in Mova's school dictionary: A boat driven by a steam engine, often with a large… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a steamboat, steamboats)

meaning for a pupil

1) A boat driven by a steam engine, often with a large paddle wheel, used especially on rivers in the 1800s. tree →

2) A steamboat can also be an imagined flying machine powered by steam. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, steamboats show the Industrial Revolution: they carried passengers and goods up and down rivers like the Mississippi. In film history, Mickey Mouse first appeared with sound in «Steamboat Willie» (1928). Today some steamboats run for tourists.

examples

• The steamboat puffed slowly up the Mississippi River. tree →
• Mark Twain once piloted steamboats. tree →
• Steamboats carried cotton and passengers in the 1800s. tree →
• Mickey Mouse first whistled in "Steamboat Willie." tree →
• We went on a steamboat trip on the lake. tree →
• The steamboat's paddle wheel churned the water. tree →
• The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus went forth, where Cortez was born, and where Calderon sang dramas in sounding verse. tree →

note

Countable; one word. A large one is a «steamship». Bigger idea: steam power changed transport (trains, ships, factories).

Trees and pragmatics

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