What is the difference between ferry and boat?
ferry | boat |
A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
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* around 1900 , O. Henry,
The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.
To carry; transport; convey.
* 2007 , Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks :
To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
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, title= To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
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A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
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A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
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(lb) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
To travel by boat.
To transport in a boat.
To place in a boat.
Boat is a hyponym of ferry.
In transitive terms the difference between ferry and boat
is that ferry is to carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores while boat is to place in a boat.In intransitive terms the difference between ferry and boat
is that ferry is to pass over water in a boat or by ferry while boat is to travel by boat.ferry
English
Noun
(ferries)- It can pass the ferry backward into light.
- to row me o'er the ferry
- She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry , and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.
Derived terms
* ferry bridge * ferry railwayDescendants
* French: (l) * Malay: (l) * Swahili: (l)Verb
(en-verb)- We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock.
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- They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.
See also
* boat * shipAnagrams
* ----boat
English
(wikipedia boat)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
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Usage notes
There is no explicit limit, but the word boat usually refers to a relatively small watercraft, smaller than a ship but larger than a dinghy.Synonyms
* (craft on or in water) craft, ship, vesselHyponyms
(Terms denoting specific kinds of boat) * (A craft on or in water) ark, bangca, barge, canoe, catamaran, caravel, carrack, coracle, cruiser, cutter, dhow, dinghy, dory, dragon boat, Dutch barge, East Indiaman, felucca, ferry, ferryboat, fishing boat, flatboat, folding boat, galley, galleon, gig, go-fast boat, gondola, guardboat, gunboat, houseboat, hovercraft, hydrofoil, hydroplane, iceboat, inflatable boat, inflatable raft, jetboat, jetski, junk, , kayak, keelboat, ketch, lifeboat, log boat, longboat, luxemotor, mackinaw boat, mailboat, motorboat, motorsailer, narrowboat, Norfolk wherry, outrigger canoe, paddleboat, peniche, pinnace, policeboat, powerboat, raft, rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB), riverboat, rowboat, sailboat, schooner, scow, seaboat, sealship, Seiner, ship of the line, skiff, sloop, steamboat, submarine, surfboat, swan boat, tender, tjalk, trawler, trireme, trimaran, troller, tug, tugboat, U-boat, wangkang, water taxi, whaleboat, yacht, yawlDerived terms
* boatable * boatage * boatbill * boatbuilder * boatel, botel * boater * boatful * boathook * boathouse * boatie * boating * boatless * boatlift * boatload * boatman, boatsman * boatmanship, boatsmanship * boatneck * boatslip * boatswain * boatswainbird * boattail * boatwoman * boatwright * boatyard * burn one's boats * float someone's boat * gravy boat * houseboat * in the same boat * longtail boat * miss the boat * narrowboat, narrow boat * push the boat out * rock the boat * speedboat * twist-boat * U-boatSee also
*References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(en verb)- to boat goods
- to boat oars