ferry

«ferry» in Mova's school dictionary: a boat or ship that carries people, cars and goods across… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (ferry, ferries); verb (ferry, ferries, ferried, ferrying)

meaning for a pupil

1) A ferry is a boat or ship that carries people, cars and goods across a river, lake or sea, again and again on a set route. tree →

2) To ferry is to carry people or things from one place to another, often many times. tree →

sense in the lessons

carries people or cars per trip; trips per day; in everyday life: taking the ferry to an island, across a harbour or to France; in safety: listen to the safety talk and know where the life jackets are; phrases: «take the ferry», «ferry terminal», «ferry across»

examples

• A ferry carries 40 cars each trip. tree →
• It makes 6 trips a day. tree →
• How many trips for 150 people? tree →
• The ferry ticket costs $5. tree →
• We took the ferry across Sydney Harbour. tree →
• The ferry to the island leaves every hour. tree →
• Mum ferried us to football and back all weekend. tree →
• The car drove onto the ferry. tree →
• So Ib went in the ferry-boat from Aarhus to Copenhagen. tree →

note

Per trip × trips; trap: a remainder needs one more trip. A return trip is 2 crossings. Plural: ferries (y → ies).

In the corpora

• In Edinburgh, Grandad tells Torquil the same story about the ferry three times in one visit.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ferry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.