Furry vs Ferry - What's the difference?
furry | ferry |
Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.
(informal) Having both animal and human characteristics; of or related to the furry subculture.
An animal character with human characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.
(slang) A member of the furry fandom or subculture; a furfan.
(slang) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a furry character.
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.
* Milton
* Campbell
* 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.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between furry and ferry
is that furry is an animal character with human characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture while ferry is a ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.As an adjective furry
is covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.As a verb ferry is
to carry; transport; convey.furry
English
(wikipedia furry)Adjective
(er)Noun
(furries)Coordinate terms
* (furry fandom senses) scalie, avianSee also
* kemonomimi * nahualism * anthropomorphism * zoomorphismferry
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.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.