What's the difference between voyage and yacht?

Voyage


Definition:

  • (n.) Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.
  • (n.) The act or practice of traveling.
  • (n.) Course; way.
  • (v. i.) To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.
  • (v. t.) To travel; to pass over; to traverse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) The countdown has begun for Tim Peake’s exciting voyage into space .
  • (4) Possible mechanisms of changes developing in conditions of long-term voyage, especially the role of the state of the vegetative nervous system, and possibilities of prophylactic measures stimulating the weakening of dysfunctional disturbances are discussed.
  • (5) She was perhaps surprised to hear that the whole scheme of the thing came to Gaiman when, severely jet-lagged and sleep-deprived on a stopover in Reykjavik, he saw the tourist centre's diorama of Leif Erikson's voyage to America.
  • (6) Cyclist Mark Beaumont, 28, from Fife, was also on board making a documentary about the voyage for the BBC.
  • (7) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
  • (8) China blasted off its Long March-7 new generation carrier rocket on a successful inaugural voyage on Saturday from a new launch centre, state media reported, as the country races ahead with an ambitious space program.
  • (9) The sea voyage takes roughly 1½ hours; tickets start at €10pp; advance booking is recommended during high season Ventotene Facebook Twitter Pinterest The piazza in Ventotene.
  • (10) The trip's leader, Huigen Yang, told Reuters this week that Chinese shipping companies, encouraged by the ship's success, may be planning a commercial voyage along the same route as soon as this summer.
  • (11) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
  • (12) Just as important, legal channels must be created for refugees to claim asylum without undergoing deadly voyages across the sea or hidden in trucks.
  • (13) Shipowners have said it can save them €180,000-€300,000 on each voyage.
  • (14) Eighty naval cadets, unaccustomed to sailing in heavy seas reported during voyages on the high seas, symptoms of seasickness every hour for 4 consecutive hours after ingestion of 1 g of the drug or placebo.
  • (15) Nine galleries narrate the tale, from context-setting in boomtown early 1900s Belfast, through construction and fitting-out, all the way to the launch and catastrophic maiden voyage.
  • (16) The Tornados, based at Akrotiri in Cyprus, rely on Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft to sustain long-distance air patrols.
  • (17) It took some 1500 years to double this number by the time of Columbus' voyage to America.
  • (18) Sorensen has sailed deep into ice at both poles for 30 years, but this voyage is different, he says.
  • (19) During their voyage, they traverse the three acinus zones, and since in each they produce different enzymes, each zone represents a differentiation state of the advancing cell.
  • (20) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.

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.