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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#m1)

2) To ferry is to carry people or things from one place to another, often many times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x1)
- It makes 6 trips a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x2)
- How many trips for 150 people? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x3)
- The ferry ticket costs $5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x4)
- We took the ferry across Sydney Harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x5)
- The ferry to the island leaves every hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x6)
- Mum ferried us to football and back all weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x7)
- The car drove onto the ferry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x8)
- So Ib went in the ferry-boat from Aarhus to Copenhagen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/ferry/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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