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# dinghy

«dinghy» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small open boat, rowed with oars or sailed, often used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a dinghy, dinghies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small open boat, rowed with oars or sailed, often used to get from a bigger boat to the shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#m1)

2) A small rubber boat that you blow up with air, used for fun or in an emergency (an inflatable dinghy). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories about the sea, lakes and holidays a dinghy is the little boat people row or sail; in safety lessons it is the life raft or rescue boat; in maths problems a dinghy may hold a few people or travel a distance. Phrases: «row the dinghy», «sailing dinghy», «rubber dinghy», «tow a dinghy».

### examples

- We rowed the dinghy across the harbour to the yacht. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#x1)
- Dad blew up the rubber dinghy on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#x2)
- The sailing club teaches children to sail a dinghy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#x3)
- A dinghy can hold 4 people; how many dinghies do 12 people need? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#x4)
- Always wear a life jacket in a dinghy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#x5)
- The dinghy tipped over and we got soaking wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#x6)
- The big boat towed a little dinghy behind it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#x7)
- It was the pirate dinghy, with three figures in her, Smee and Starkey, and the third a captive, no other than Tiger Lily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/#x8)

### note

Countable: one dinghy, two dinghies (y changes to ies). Say «DING-ee» or «DING-gee». Do not confuse with «dingy» (dark and dirty, said «DIN-jee»). A dinghy is small; a ship is big. In maths, «each dinghy holds n people» means divide the people by n and round up for the number of boats.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dinghy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dinghy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.