Dinghy vs Kayak - What's the difference?
dinghy | kayak |
(label) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
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, title= (label) An inflatable rubber life raft.
To travel by dinghy.
A type of small boat, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position.
(label) to use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak
(label) to traverse a body of water by kayak.
Kayak is a hyponym of dinghy.
In intransitive terms the difference between dinghy and kayak
is that dinghy is to travel by dinghy while kayak is to use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.dinghy
English
Noun
(wikipedia dinghy) (dinghies)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.}}
