Dinghy vs Canoe - What's the difference?
dinghy | canoe |
As nouns the difference between dinghy and canoe is that dinghy is ( label) a small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship while canoe is a small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles the paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends. As verbs the difference between dinghy and canoe is that dinghy is to travel by dinghy while canoe is to ride or paddle a canoe.
dinghy English
Noun
( wikipedia dinghy)
( dinghies)
(label) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
* {{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= The Three Corpse Trick , chapter=5
, passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
(label) An inflatable rubber life raft.
Synonyms
* tender
Derived terms
* sailing dinghy
* dinghy towing
Verb
To travel by dinghy.
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canoe Alternative forms
* (l) (Jamaican English)
Noun
( en noun)
A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
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*:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
(lb) An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
Verb
(d)
To ride or paddle a canoe.
Derived terms
* canoeist
See also
* kayak
Anagrams
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