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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/#m1)

2) A small boat carried on a ship, used to escape if the ship sinks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/#x1)
- The Titanic did not have enough lifeboats for everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/#x2)
- My uncle is a volunteer on the lifeboat crew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/#x3)
- We visited the lifeboat station by the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/#x4)
- The passengers climbed into the lifeboats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/#x5)
- Every ship has a lifeboat drill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/48-lifeboat-choices/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lifeboat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifeboat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.