Dinghy vs Pray - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between dinghy and pray is that dinghy is to travel by dinghy while pray is to petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being. As a noun dinghy is ( label) a small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship. As an adverb pray is please; used to make a polite request.
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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pray English
Verb
( en verb)
To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.
- Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.
To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
(religion) to communicate with God for any reason.
(obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
* Shakespeare
- I know not how to pray your patience.
Derived terms
* prayer
* pray in aid
Adverb
( -)
please; used to make a polite request.
- pray silence for…
* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1 Chapter 8
- "Pray , Mr. Knightley," said Emma, who had been smiling to herself through a great part of this speech, "how do you know that Mr. Martin did not speak yesterday?"
* Charles Dickens, , 1841:
- Pray''' don’t ask me why, '''pray''' don’t be sorry, '''pray don’t be vexed with me!
* Frederick Marryat, , 1845:
- Well, Major, pray tell us your adventures, for you have frightened us dreadfully.
* 1892 , (Arthur Conan Doyle),
- Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue your most interesting statement.
* 2013 , Martina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic?'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/is-pope-catholic-atheists-gay-people-abortion]
- He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray , does the Catholic church want with doubt?
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