Dinghy vs Rib - What's the difference?
dinghy | rib |
(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.
Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum
A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something
A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones
(label) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull
Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength
(label) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
(label) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth
(label) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf
A teasing joke
A single strand of hair.
A stalk of celery.
To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs
To tease or make fun of someone
To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
* Shakespeare
(label) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
Rib is a hyponym of dinghy.
In nautical terms the difference between dinghy and rib
is that dinghy is an inflatable rubber life raft while rib is any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.dinghy
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(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.}}
