What's the difference between tugboat and yacht?

Tugboat


Definition:

  • (n.) See Tug, n., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The drugs were found in a secret hold in the Tanzania-registered tugboat.
  • (2) Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen were found guilty of smuggling three tonnes of the class A drug, which were discovered inside the MV Hamal tugboat about 100 miles (160km) off the coast of Aberdeen in 2015.
  • (3) It was brought by tugboat on Sunday to a port near Pangkalan Bun on Borneo, the search headquarters.
  • (4) He's unhappy with an article headlined Minister Silent on Tugboats.
  • (5) The Kulluk was towed on Monday by a 360ft anchor handler, the Aiviq, and a tugboat, the Alert.
  • (6) The incident took place on Monday, 60 nautical miles off the coast of Libya, after an Italian tugboat and the coastguard ship came to the rescue of 250 migrants.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The cocaine was found in a secret hold on board the MV Hamal tugboat.
  • (8) The floating barge office where the tugboat captain reports for duty is tilted like a funhouse.
  • (9) A unit in Misrata, 280 miles up the coast, commandeered a tugboat,  lashed jeeps mounted with rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns to the decks, and set sail.
  • (10) The tugboat crew guided the drill ship to a place where it would cause the least environmental damage and cut it loose.
  • (11) Start at the PE harbour and watch tugboats hauling in car carriers and cruise ships.
  • (12) In one narrow part of the lake, dozens of dredgers extend from the shore in a line, leaving only a narrow passageway for a tugboat hauling a barge piled up with yellow sand.
  • (13) It was brought by tugboat on Sunday to a port near the search headquarters at Pangkalan Bun on Borneo.
  • (14) Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) has published abysmal data on payouts from Pandora and Spotify for his song "Tugboat" and Lowery even wrote a piece entitled " My Song Got Played on Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make from a Single T-shirt Sale! "

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.

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