What's the difference between ferryboat and lifeboat?
Ferryboat
Definition:
(n.) A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two seemingly contradictory sets of observations have been made in studies of biological transport, which are essential for our understanding of the transport mechanism: carriers are integral membrane proteins, which span the membrane and are not free to rotate across the membrane; carriers appear to function like a ferryboat, with a substrate binding site moving back and forth from one side of the membrane to the other.
Lifeboat
Definition:
(n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
(2) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(3) An uncle of one of the crew members from the El Faro says the ship was equipped with modern lifeboats.
(4) A rope is visible between the two vessels, and an inflatable boat and what appears to be an Australian warship are flanking the lifeboat.
(5) The government is buying 16 large hard-hulled lifeboats, similar to those found on oil tankers and cruise ships, to be used to send asylum seekers back towards Indonesia if their own vessel is unseaworthy, according to Fairfax Media reports published on Wednesday .
(6) Apart from when they were advised of the plan to dump them in orange lifeboats somewhere off the coast of India, they had no idea where they were and no idea where our government was going to send them.
(7) The development appears to be confirmation that Australian border protection authorities have begun using lifeboats to return asylum seekers to Indonesia, after the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders confirmed on Wednesday that a number of such vessels had been acquired.
(8) In the case of Landon Donovan, it was more of a lifeboat.
(9) Among those on board the large, fully encapsulted lifeboat are at least one woman and one child as well as a number of men.
(10) The Indonesian foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, said sending asylum seekers back in lifeboats was the start of a slippery slope.
(11) This is what happened with the first lifeboat used by the Ocean Protector.
(12) If we arrive at the place where we hope to arrive, there will be no requirement for [industry lifeboat] the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) [to step in],” he said.
(13) Last month it was alleged that three asylum seekers died whilst crossing a jungle river following a lifeboat turnback.
(14) Lawyers for the asylum seekers, who were held in windowless rooms for 21 hours a day, say the detained group were instructed on how to use lifeboats to return to India.
(15) It will be a big job, a task summarised by one Scottish blogger, who reckons Fred the Shred should be ranked alongside Bruce Ismay - the managing director of the White Star Line who grabbed a place on one of the Titanic's lifeboats, leaving his staff and customers to drown.
(16) These operations begin with an order from one of the command centres involved in Operation Sovereign Borders to deploy a lifeboat for the return of a group of asylum seekers.
(17) All that is left of the lifeboat station at Hemsby, Norfolk, after the storm.
(18) An announcement could be made as early as next week, but the deal depends on a major restructuring of the British Steel Pension Scheme that has been criticised by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), the government-backed pensions lifeboat.
(19) There are times in life when the sea is more attractive than the lifeboat.
(20) Flood rescue teams from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service are now conducting street by street searches to ensure no one is left behind in the bungalows under water in Rhyl, north Wales.