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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ferry
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ferry port (=for boats carrying people or goods across a narrow area of water)
▪ Dover is an important ferry port.
ferry/bus terminal
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boat
▪ Only an occasional ferry boat makes a last, bleak journey across the river to Birkenhead and the Wirral.
▪ There are ferry boats plying between different points, several sandy beaches, lots of yachts and dinghies and windsurfing.
▪ An overhaul of the Woodchurch ferry boat at a cost of £1.5m.
▪ The ferry boat is rusty and old, like the ferryman.
car
▪ The car ferry runs several times a day.
▪ From 75 minutes by car ferry and from 30 minutes by hovercraft.
▪ The Dover car ferry costs from £83 with an extra charge of £13 per adult.
company
▪ Despite the encouraging figures, the Chunnel has prompted ferry companies to smarten up their act, and offer better deals.
▪ We are having the ferry company over to see how it works, but no decision has been made.
▪ And many of them were angered at what they said was a lack of information from the ferry company on replacement sailings.
▪ Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company, and they told him the air conditioning wasn't working.
▪ Caledonian MacBrayne, the State-owned ferry company, runs two car ferries on the crossing.
crossing
▪ Price includes ferry crossing and insurance.
▪ Several ferry crossings and jetfoil crossing daily.
▪ The price includes half-board hotel accommodation, touring bike and return ferry crossing.
▪ Prices include ferry crossings on Sally Ferries from Ramsgate to Dunkirk.
▪ Prices start from £366 per week for a property that sleeps four, including return ferry crossing.
▪ Details of your outboard and inbound ferry crossing will be included in your travel documentation.
operator
▪ The offenders were caught under a crackdown by ferry operator P&O Stena.
▪ The drive to integrate back and front office systems among tour and ferry operators is similarly driving revenues.
port
▪ Its estimates of job losses in the ferry ports are still broadly accepted although there is little evidence of much decline as yet.
▪ The station at Dieppe is less than half-a-mile from the ferry port and is well-signposted.
▪ This is a small town between Boulogne and Calais, which is another ferry port.
▪ No bluebirds over the white cliffs; the lights are shining bright at the ferry port.
▪ This phenomenon can best be observed in Santander, that most elegant of ferry ports.
▪ This led from Rome to the ferry port of Egnatia, between Bari and Brindisi.
service
▪ In fact, because the roads into Bellagio are very difficult, most people use the ferry services to get around.
▪ All over town, bridges were closed, ferry service interrupted and downtown streets cordoned off.
▪ The only negative feature of the year's trade was the closure of the Belfast/Liverpool ferry service.
▪ The ferry service was making a loss and had stopped running for the winter.
▪ There is a ferry service to Rotterdam.
▪ When they replaced the ten-minute peak-hour ferry services with 20-minute sailings, in 1975, it was chaos.
▪ Instead it has been assumed that Eurotunnel's fares will always be the same as those of the ferry services.
terminal
▪ The other £3 million was spent on the three ferry terminals.
▪ Courtesy coaches run between Dunkirk's ferry terminal, town centre and hypermarket.
▪ To date £6.7 million has been spent on two incomplete ferry terminals at Gills Bay and Burwick.
■ VERB
board
▪ At half past five next morning I boarded the ferry, and was on the final stage of my journey.
▪ Hundreds were crammed into two narrow gangways to board ferries.
catch
▪ The whole job had to be finished so they could catch the same ferry back.
▪ Anyone who has driven down the Dover Road to catch a ferry might agree.
▪ Then they headed for Bath before catching the ferry home.
▪ She was spotted catching the Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire ferry.
take
▪ She would go to the hotel for what was left of the night, and take the ferry in the morning.
▪ Further to the north you take the ferry across from East to West Cowes to avoid a big detour inland via Newport.
▪ We meet up in Dover, take the ferry over to Calais and motor down to Canet Plage in comfort.
▪ Pete and I took an afternoon ferry from Leknes to Napp, and sweltered the bikes over an unnamed pass to Vareid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the ferry incident, we make good time.
▪ Boats and ferries potter the local coves and islands if you haven't done enough pottering in our own craft.
▪ Extra ferries are needed to bring them back home.
▪ He went out and took the path that leads up over the ridge to the ferry.
▪ On South Street, from the direction of the Governors Island ferry, came another flock of street urchins.
▪ Our sails are down and the ferry has the right of way.
▪ The station at Dieppe is less than half-a-mile from the ferry port and is well-signposted.
▪ Two children found dead on ferry Two children have been found dead from asphyxiation on board a ferry crossing from Swansea to Cork.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He and the pilot who was ferrying him to Long Tieng were not afraid.
▪ He hopes to expand the existing tram system that ferries visitors from outlying parking lots to key spots through out the park.
▪ His last song attracted a school of dolphins, one of which ferried Arion on his back all the way to Corinth.
▪ Now he works as a moto-driver, ferrying tourists around Siem Reap and Angkor.
▪ Now my body welcomes every roll and pitch of the stubby Island Romance ferrying me back to my nubble.
▪ The thieves had obviously been back and forth over the ravine ferrying everything back to their car.
▪ They ferry kindergartners from piano to karate to computer to art classes.
▪ Walter will find him safe lying at the holding until Iago can ferry him over and see him on his way.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ferry

Ferry \Fer"ry\ (f[e^]r"r[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ferried (-r[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Ferrying.] [OE. ferien to convey, AS. ferian, from faran to go; akin to Icel. ferja to ferry, Goth. farjan to sail. See Fare.]

  1. To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.

  2. To convey back and forth regularly between two points in a vehicle; as, part of her day was spent ferrying the kids to and from school.

Ferry

Ferry \Fer"ry\, v. i. To pass over water in a boat or by a ferry.

They ferry over this Lethean sound Both to and fro.
--Milton.

Ferry

Ferry \Fer"ry\, n.; pl. Ferries. [OE. feri; akin to Icel. ferja, Sw. f["a]rja, Dan. f[ae]rge, G. f["a]hre. See Ferry, v. t.]

  1. A place where persons or things are carried across a river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.

    It can pass the ferry backward into light.
    --Milton.

    To row me o'er the ferry.
    --Campbell.

  2. A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.

  3. A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.

    Ferry bridge, a ferryboat adapted in its structure for the transfer of railroad trains across a river or bay.

    Ferry railway. See under Railway.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ferry

Old English ferian "to carry, convey, bring, transport" (in late Old English, especially over water), from Proto-Germanic *farjan "to ferry" (cognates: Old Frisian feria "carry, transport," Old Norse ferja "to pass over, to ferry," Gothic farjan "travel by boat"), from PIE root *per- (2) "to lead, pass over" (see port (n.1)). Related to fare (v.). Related: Ferried; ferries; ferrying.

ferry

early 15c., "a passage over a river," from the verb or from Old Norse ferju-, in compounds, "passage across water," ultimately from the same Germanic root as ferry (v.). Meaning "place where boats pass over a body of water" is from mid-15c. The sense "boat or raft to convey passengers and goods short distances across a body of water" (1580s) is a shortening of ferry boat (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
ferry

n. 1 A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule. 2 A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship. 3 The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To carry; transport; convey. 2 (context transitive English) To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.

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WordNet
ferry

  1. n. a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule [syn: ferryboat]

  2. transport by boat or aircraft [syn: ferrying]

  3. v. transport from one place to another

  4. transport by ferry

  5. travel by ferry

  6. [also: ferried]

Gazetteer
Ferry, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 29
Housing Units (2000): 33
Land area (2000): 68.440336 sq. miles (177.259648 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 68.440336 sq. miles (177.259648 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25220
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 64.064392 N, 148.997000 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ferry, AK
Ferry
Ferry -- U.S. County in Washington
Population (2000): 7260
Housing Units (2000): 3775
Land area (2000): 2203.982146 sq. miles (5708.287311 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 53.478622 sq. miles (138.508988 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2257.460768 sq. miles (5846.796299 sq. km)
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 48.495464 N, 118.523636 W
Headwords:
Ferry
Ferry, WA
Ferry County
Ferry County, WA
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Wikipedia
Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate regular return services. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi.

Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels. However, ship connections of much larger distances (such as over long distances in water bodies like the Mediterranean Sea) may also be called ferry services, especially if they carry vehicles.

Ferry (disambiguation)

A ferry is a form of transport across water.

Ferry may also refer to:

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Usage examples of "ferry".

Two catamarans flying brightly colored flags and loaded with tourists were pulling away from the dock, and more tourists were lined up to board the regular ferry that ran back and forth between Anguilla and St.

We had to cross the Assiniboine on a ferry, and then rose nearly all the way to Rapid City, twenty-two miles, going through pretty country much wooded and with hundreds of small lakes, favourite resorts of wild duck.

The Assiniboine we crossed just before getting to the fort, on a ferry.

Major Dillon had not one but three stopwatches, all hanging from cords around his neck, and then, as the ferrying of the avgas to the Catalina was carried out, understood what he was doing with them.

The birdcage guys are ferrying meter-wide chips of water ice through the veils hung over their filigree space ship, busy as ants tearing apart a grasshopper.

Its shops and inns clung so closely to the shore of Lake Biwa that the masts of the fishing smacks, the pleasure boats, and the ferries beached there seemed to sprout from thatched roofs.

When the last trembling back had disappeared, Bolivar and I went out the front door and walked towards the waiting ferry.

During the next few days I obtained railway time-tables which listed cross-Channel ferries and train connections on the Continent, and spent quite a lot of time between my other duties in studying these together with brochures from shipping companies, trying to work out how best to travel from Bournemouth to Athens.

That Deimos ferry that was hijacked to Pallas last monththey claimed to be Byelorussians, seeking to liberate their homeland.

Seen from the bow of the low-slung ferry, it rises like the archetypal island of dreams, green with spring grass all the way to its camelback ridge, its shores salted with patches of humid evening mist.

On the ferry in the middle of the Strait of Canso, Lily puts the diary down and looks behind her at Cape Breton because she will never see it again.

They were approaching Strome Ferry, running along the banks of Loch Carron, and before answering her he remarked upon the beauty of the scenery they were passing through.

So now it was the medical teams being ferried down from orbit, civilian volunteers complementing entire mobile military hospitals.

But seven people from the town were there, and some of the Dogon too, for Freedom Love had lent them Gudrun Sarkis to ferry them across the lake.

It was a seven-day journey, but Dolley enjoyed every moment-the crossing of wide waters by ferry, the rough rides over muddy, rutted roads, even the nights in noisy, drafty ordinaries.