ferry

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɛɹi/    美 /ˈfɛɹi/|/ˈfeɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
  2. A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
    — It can pass the ferry backward into light.
  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
动词 v.
  1. To carry; transport; convey. transitive
    — Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
  2. To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly. transitive
    — Being a good waiter takes more than the ability to ferry plates of food around a restaurant.
  3. 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. transitive
  4. To pass over water in a boat or by ferry. intransitive
    — They ferry over this Lethean sound / Both to and fro.

词形变化

ferries present,singular,third-person ferrying participle,present ferried participle,past ferried past ferries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
unferried
相关词
boat ship

词源

词源 1
The verb is from Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey”), from Old English ferian, from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną, which see for cognates. This verb is the causative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to go, travel”), whence English fare; ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per-.
The noun is from Middle English ferie (“place of crossing, ferry”), which was derived from the above verb under influence of Old Norse ferja, from Proto-Germanic *farjǭ, itself also from the verb.
False cognate of Latin ferō.
词源 2
The verb is from Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey”), from Old English ferian, from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną, which see for cognates. This verb is the causative of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to go, travel”), whence English fare; ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *per-.
The noun is from Middle English ferie (“place of crossing, ferry”), which was derived from the above verb under influence of Old Norse ferja, from Proto-Germanic *farjǭ, itself also from the verb.
False cognate of Latin ferō.
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