What's the difference between dinghy and yacht?

Dinghy


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of boat used in the East Indies.
  • (n.) A ship's smallest boat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
  • (2) The migrants rescued on Tuesday had been aboard five motorised dinghies and two larger vessels.
  • (3) He writes about a secondary school headmaster, dedicated to young people of all abilities and backgrounds: "Outside in the world the little meritocrats, those natural survivors, were climbing ... into dinghies, leaving the rest to make do with rafts.
  • (4) 'Libyan coastguard' speedboat attacked migrant dinghy, says NGO Read more The central Mediterranean route has always been a riskier option.
  • (5) When he was diagnosed as terminally ill two years later, he set up a Facebook page with a bucket list of things he wanted to achieve, including sky-diving, crowd-surfing in a rubber dinghy, and hugging an animal bigger than him (an elephant, it turned out).
  • (6) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Two migrants pull an overcrowded dinghy with Syrian and Afghan refugees arriving from the Turkish coasts to the Greek island of Lesbos.
  • (8) Even as the expulsions were under way, a rubber dinghy with about 40 men, women and children arrived from the shores of Turkey; on the other side of the Aegean, dozens of others were arrested trying to follow in their wake.
  • (9) Photograph: Eduardo Ruiz Samuel always tells people that his journey to reach Spain by dinghy lasted two years.
  • (10) A terrorist who comes into Greece via a dinghy from Turkey posing as a refugee couldn’t just pop up in London.
  • (11) This set includes six mini-figures including the pilot, rescuer, "stricken people", two water cannons, a submarine, dinghy and lighthouse.
  • (12) A dry-land winter training programme for dinghy-sailors is described.
  • (13) Their day had begun at the family’s home on a barge on the Thames, where neighbours had carpeted one community dinghy named Yorkshire Rose with 1,000 roses.
  • (14) Threatened with guns, 40 Syrian men, women and children got onto a small inflatable dinghy and were pushed into the water.
  • (15) Bharat Tamore, an assistant supervisor at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, was gazing out to sea when he spotted the dinghy drifting noiselessly towards the beach.
  • (16) Along the roadside, entrepreneurs sell everything from wellington boots and lifejackets to blocks of foam and inflatable dinghies.
  • (17) We have been told by the people who have arrived that the traffickers would literally push people to board rubber dinghies with weapons.
  • (18) Getting there is all a bit Blue Peter: at just gone 9am on a freezing weekday, I bounce over the waves in a motorised dinghy, then clamber up long-eroded steps - clinging nervously to a frayed length of rope - into a huge circular courtyard.
  • (19) But in a major tragedy last week, more than 300 migrants died in the Mediterranean Sea when their overcrowded rubber dinghies collapsed and sank in stormy weather.
  • (20) Four rubber dinghies, each carrying up to 100 west African migrants, are believed to have capsized after leaving Libya for Italy several days ago, the UN refugee agency said, based on accounts from survivors.

Yacht


Definition:

  • (n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
  • (v. i.) To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
  • (2) Cellino was initially disqualified in December when the League ruled a first-grade conviction for tax evasion on a yacht in Sardinia was a “dishonest offence” and that he was therefore in breach of the organisation’s owners’ and directors’ test.
  • (3) However, no deal has been forthcoming and the billionaire tycoon was photographed on his new yacht throughout the summer.
  • (4) We are not looking to own boats and yachts and stuff like that.
  • (5) The League ruled that because the tax offence involving the yacht Nelie had been confirmed by the Italian judge to have been a dishonest act, Cellino failed its owners and directors test.
  • (6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (7) Yet he seems to have not just used his plane, but travelled with him on countless occasions and stayed on his luxury yacht.
  • (8) The model, the beach, the yacht, what more is there to say?
  • (9) When it's then revealed he works with special-needs kids for a living, the audience applauds again, even though victory on The Voice would presumably lead to him ending that philanthropic career in favour of one involving stadium gigs and blowjobs on yachts.
  • (10) The National Enquirer later published a picture of Rice in Hart’s lap aboard a yacht called Monkey Business.
  • (11) "Two women were hooded, they had their eyes taped," she said, describing how the yacht was quickly overwhelmed.
  • (12) In the morning, they would go to bed and order the yacht to leave port, knowing the crew would have to remove any stragglers before they set sail.
  • (13) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
  • (14) The plan for the yacht is the brainchild of Rear Admiral David Bawtree, a former naval base commander in Portsmouth.
  • (15) But the primary cause, particularly near the yachting courses, is the waste that flows into the bay from surrounding communities, many of which emerged during periods of unregulated urban growth.
  • (16) You have this tension between the privacy that yachts and the sea afford against this desire to see and be seen,” she says.
  • (17) Downing Street has moved swiftly to torpedo a proposal from the education secretary, Michael Gove , that the public should donate a £60m royal yacht to the Queen as part of this year's diamond jubilee celebrations.
  • (18) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
  • (19) Not a single ship in the Unites States is equipped to handle wind turbines: Forget about whales and yacht routes.
  • (20) Officially, Deng is entitled to whatever she agreed to in the prenuptial agreement signed in 1999 when they married on a luxury yacht to the sounds of Charlotte Church's angelic voice.