ferry
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To carry; transport; convey.
Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
- 2.
(transitive)To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.
Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant.
- 3.
(transitive)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.
- 4.
(intransitive)To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.
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noun- 1.
(nautical) A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
Near-synonym: ferryboat
Islanders normally have to queue for half an hour to get on the ferry.
Đồng nghĩa: ferryboat
- 2.
A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
- 3.
The service constituted by this watercraft's operation; the business (company) that operates such a service.
In those days there was a ferry at Sleepytown. Modern roads and bridges for motor vehicles have rendered such local river ferries obsolete.
- 4.
The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service: a right of ferry.
granted a ferry to
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ine-pro The verb is from Middle English ferien (to carry, convey), from Old English ferian, from *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną, which see for cognates. This verb is the causative of *faraną (to go, travel), whence fare; ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European - root *per-.