different between ferry vs casco

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferien (“to carry, convey, convey in a boat”), from Old English ferian (“to carry, convey, bear, bring, lead, conduct, betake oneself to, be versed in, depart, go”), from Proto-West Germanic *farjan, from Proto-Germanic *farjan? (“to make or let go, transfer, ferry”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring or carry over, transfer, pass through”).

Cognate with German dialectal feren, fähren (“to row, sail”), Danish færge (“to ferry”), Swedish färja (“to ferry”), Icelandic ferja (“to ferry”), Old Norse ferja. Related to fare.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??i/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?f???/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -??i
  • Homophone: fairy (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Hyphenation: fer?ry

Verb

ferry (third-person singular simple present ferries, present participle ferrying, simple past and past participle ferried)

1. (transitive) To carry; transport; convey.

   Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.

   • 2007, Rick Bass, The Lives of Rocks:

     We ferried our stock in U-Haul trailers, and across the months, as we purchased more cowflesh from the Goat Man — meat vanishing into the ether again and again, as if into some quarkish void — we became familiar enough with Sloat and his daughter to learn that her name was Flozelle, and to visit with them about matters other than stock.

2. (transitive) To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly.

3. (transitive) 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.
4. (intransitive) To pass over water in a boat or by ferry.

Noun

ferry (plural ferries)

1. A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
2. A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship.
   • 1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter

     to row us o'er the ferry

   • c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment:

     She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.

3. The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• boat
• ship

Anagrams

• Freyr, Fryer, fryer, refry

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ferry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.?i/

Noun

ferry m (plural ferries or ferrys)

1. ferry

Derived terms

• car-ferry

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ferri

Etymology

From English ferry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?feri/, [?fe.ri]

Noun

ferry m (plural ferrys or ferries)

1. ferry

   Synonyms: transbordador, trasbordador

English

Noun

casco (plural cascos)

1. (nautical) A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore

Anagrams

• Cocas, SACCO, cocas, socca

Catalan

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative form of cascar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casco

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s.k??/
• Hyphenation: cas?co

Noun

casco n (uncountable)

1. shell of a building, car or ship

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 13th century. Back-formation from cascar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kasko?/

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

1. casque; helmet; skull
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 639:

     en guisa que llj tallou o almofar da loriga cõ h?a muy grã peça do casco

     in such a way that he cut the mail aventail together with a large piece of the casque [or skull]

   • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     eu quero mal à esta jente / einos de por en talladas / esfarelandoll'os cascos / do corpo sacarll'as almas

     I wish ill these people / I'll make slices of them / crushing them helmets [or skulls] / from them bodies I'll take out them souls

   Synonyms: capacete, helmo

2. hard hat
3. (nautical) hulk; hull
4. shell; husk
5. hoof
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 147:

     Quando o Cauallo ouver peeira deuen lle allinpar moy ben as huñas so as sollas do fondo do pee ataa que fique o casco moy sotil

     When the horse is ill in its foot they should clean the hoofs, down under the sole of the feet, till the hoof is very subtle

   Synonym: pezuño

6. empty bottle
7. bark of tree

   Synonyms: casca, cortiza, tona

8. bran

   Synonym: casulo

Derived terms

• casquete
• cascón

Related terms

• casca
• cascar

References

• “casco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “casco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “casco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “casco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “casco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?sko?]
• Hyphenation: cas?co
• Rhymes: -ko?

Noun

casco (plural cascók)

1. (automotive) collision damage waiver
2. (automotive) theft protection insurance

   Synonym: gépjárm?-biztosítás (vehicle insurance in a broader sense)

Usage notes

This type of insurance does not necessarily include liability insurance, travel insurance of the passengers, or any other kind of insurance (such as for personal effects carried in the vehicle), although it may be supplemented with them, depending on individual plans or packages.

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Spanish casco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kas.ko/

Noun

casco m (plural caschi)

1. helmet
2. crash helmet
3. hair dryer
4. (collective) bunch (of bananas)

Verb

casco

1. first-person singular present indicative of cascare

Anagrams

• cosca, sacco

Portuguese

Etymology

Back-formation from cascar.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kas.ku/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ka?.ku/
• Hyphenation: cas?co

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

1. skull, cranium
2. (nautical) hull
3. hoof, tip of a toe of ungulates
4. shell (of a turtle)

Spanish

Etymology

From the verb cascar (“to split”), from Latin quass? (“shake, strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kasko/, [?kas.ko]
• Hyphenation: cas?co

Noun

casco m (plural cascos)

1. helmet
2. crown (top part of a hat)
3. (nautical) hulk (unused ship)
4. (nautical) hull (frame or body of a boat or ship)
5. the foot of a horse; a hoof

   Synonym: pezuña

6. the city center
7. shard
8. potsherd
9. head (of an alcoholic beverage)
10. hull of a vegetable
11. vat, barrel
12. saddle tree
13. empty container, e.g. bottle or barrel.
14. (used in plural) headphones

Related terms

• casco antiguo
• casco trincado
• ligero de cascos
• cascote
• cáscara
• cascar

Descendants

• ? Catalan: casc
• ? German: Kasko
• ? French: casque
• ? Italian: casco
• ? Piedmontese: casch

Verb

casco

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cascar.

Further reading

• “casco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Anagrams

• cacos
• cocas