Ferry vs Steamer - What's the difference?
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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
(cookware) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
A vessel in which articles are subjected to the action of steam, as in washing, and in various processes of manufacture.
A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
A steam-powered road locomotive; a traction engine.
A wetsuit which has long sleeves and long legs.
A dish of steamed clams.
Any species of the duck genus Tachyeres , of which all four species occur in South America, and three are flightless.
(Australia, food, obsolete) A food made by cooking diced meat very slowly in a tightly sealed pot, with a minimum of flavourings, allowing it to steam in its own juices; popular circa 1850 but apparently no longer so by the 1900s .
* “Melville”, Australia'', quoted in 1864''', Edward Abbott, ''The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the Many, as Well as for the ‘Upper Ten Thousand’'', London, in turn quoted in '''1998 , Colin Bannerman, et al., ''Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia?s Culinary History , (publisher), ISBN 0-642-10693-2, page 14,
(obsolete) A steam fire engine, a fire engine consisting of a steam boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine, combined and mounted on wheels (Webster 1913).
(horse racing) A horse whose odds are decreasing (becoming shorter) because bettors are backing it.
(UK, crime, slang) Member of a youth gang who engages in robbing and escaping as a large group.
(UK, sex, slang) Oral sex performed on a man.
(UK, slang) A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(US, gambling, slang) A gambler who increases a wager after losing.
(UK, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.
As nouns the difference between ferry and steamer
is that ferry is a ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule while steamer is a cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.As a verb ferry
is to carry; transport; convey.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.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.
See also
* boat * shipAnagrams
* ----steamer
English
Noun
(en noun)- Of all the dishes ever brought to table, nothing equals that of the steamer .