Definition of dinghy in English:

dinghy

nounPlural dinghies ˈdɪŋɡiˈdɪŋiˈdɪŋi

1A small boat for recreation or racing, especially an open boat with a mast and sails.
小舢板，小游艇
Example sentencesExamples
- The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright.
- Fitz smiled at this, remembering his own boyhood dreams as he'd sailed a small dinghy and thought of bigger boats.
- Yet Emma has just returned to her roots, sailing a dinghy in the Clyde with a 15-year-old girl from Helensburgh Sailing Club, and professes to have enjoyed every minute of it.
- Though the wind seemed disappointingly light, I was excited to be on an 18 foot yacht, having sailed before only in dinghies.
- If you don't sail a dinghy well you don't actually go anywhere, but in a cat you pull the sails in and then point vaguely in the right direction and it can go like a bullet from a gun.
- I used to live in Guernsey and I learnt to windsurf and sail dinghies.
- It was an eight-foot sailing dinghy with high freeboard.
- As I looked at these tremendous pedal extremities, I mused that I sail a dinghy, not much bigger than his boots, on the open waters of the Gulf of Thailand.
- Angry coastguards in North Wales today condemned as ‘madness’ children being allowed to sail out in tiny dinghies.
- The Standard dinghies have a larger sail of 6.7 square metres.
- Should you wish, you can have a sail in a dinghy in the presence of our qualified instructors, but remember to bring some old clothes and a windproof, or relax in our clubhouse and watch racing on the lake.
- Some other members were on hand to demonstrate how to rig the sails on a sailing dinghy and show the layout of a boat to the trainees.
- So why would any person in their right mind nail their colours to the mast of a leaky dinghy rather than a majestic tall ship?
- The access dinghy he uses to sail is controlled by a hand operated joystick, allowing him a freedom of movement he lacks on land.
- Some categories of boats are full, such as yachts, sailing dinghies and self-drive motor boats.
- A friend invited me to go sailing in a dinghy, again on a stormy day.
- Still undaunted by what was acknowledged, at the time, as the longest distance ever sailed in an open dinghy out of sight of land, the King planted a flag at the base to commemorate the event.
- He's really in a dinghy, its mast little taller than its sole occupant!
- I was sailing dinghies at the time and expressed an interest in having a go at sailmaking as a profession, so I wrote to him and he responded by calling me in for a meeting.
- Moroccan authorities said last week that the suspects planned to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the strait to attack the vessels.
1. 1.1 A small inflatable rubber boat.
  （充气式）小橡皮筏
  Example sentencesExamples
  A busy summer's day on Ullswater turned to tragedy as two girls in an inflatable dinghy watched their father slip beneath the cold waters never to resurface alive, an inquest heard.
  The lifeboat located four kayakers, who had landed at a cove east of Spain tower, and the lifeboat launched an inflatable dinghy to rescue the stranded kayakers.
  As the two crewmen parachuted into the sea, the back part of their ejection seats fell away and the bottom part turned into an inflatable dinghy as they hit the water.
  Here's a tip - take a bulk spool of line and an inflatable dinghy with you.
  His group set off aboard a rubber dinghy, but was never heard from again.
  Police, fire and lifeboat crews used inflatable dinghies to evacuate some of the residents from their homes.
  For the adventurous, Loves has rubber dinghies, beach balls with attachments and even an innocent, polka-dotted dairy cow.
  The La Malouine was nearest and proceeded to attempt to pick up the crew that by this time were in their rubber dinghy.
  He had a visit from a fire and rescue team in a rubber dinghy, checking to make sure he was all right - and at one point his girlfriend Brenda floated supplies down to him from Skeldergate Bridge wrapped in plastic bin-liners.
  We anchor alone in the lee of the cay, pile into the inflatable dinghy, don our masks and fins, and spend the next hour swimming with dolphins.
  New rides being offered for the first time this year include the Wave Runner ride an exciting family water coaster where participant whoosh down a trough of fast-moving water in a rubber dinghy.
  Meanwhile, two young boys, aged 8 and 13, had a lucky escape yesterday afternoon when they were carried out to sea on an inflatable dinghy.
  A rubber dinghy rushed at full speed to and fro along the Moscow River with a poster saying ‘No war’.
  I use a doubled over sleeping mat to save weight but small inflatable dinghies can be purchased locally and are ideal.
  These are three towering water chutes, in varying levels of steepness, down which you plunge in a rubber dinghy.
  This, too, will be the venue for the Festival Regatta, when inflatable dinghies will race from Barrow Bridge to Spa Bridge.
  On June 25 this year, he and a friend, Misha, had ventured out into the water on a rubber dinghy, near their friends' country house on Sinovetskoye lake, 69 km from St Petersburg.
  There are relatively few amusement arcades but plenty of shops selling brightly-coloured buckets, spades, inflatable dinghies and beach balls, not to mention lettered rock and ices.
  A sailor was left fuming after thieves stole the inflatable dinghy he had used to get from his boat to shore.
  The men used an inflatable dinghy to row alongside the SeaFrance vessel as she prepared to leave Calais and then climbed on to a metal fender 6ft above the water level.

Origin

Early 19th century (denoting a rowing boat used on rivers in India): from Hindi ḍiṅgī. The -gh in English serves to indicate the hard g.

Rhymes

clingy, springy, stingy, stringy, swingy, thingy, zingy

Definition of dinghy in US English:

dinghy

nounˈdɪŋiˈdiNGē

1A small boat for recreation or racing, especially an open boat with a mast and sails.
小舢板，小游艇
Example sentencesExamples
- The access dinghy he uses to sail is controlled by a hand operated joystick, allowing him a freedom of movement he lacks on land.
- Fitz smiled at this, remembering his own boyhood dreams as he'd sailed a small dinghy and thought of bigger boats.
- It was an eight-foot sailing dinghy with high freeboard.
- Moroccan authorities said last week that the suspects planned to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the strait to attack the vessels.
- Yet Emma has just returned to her roots, sailing a dinghy in the Clyde with a 15-year-old girl from Helensburgh Sailing Club, and professes to have enjoyed every minute of it.
- The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright.
- I used to live in Guernsey and I learnt to windsurf and sail dinghies.
- So why would any person in their right mind nail their colours to the mast of a leaky dinghy rather than a majestic tall ship?
- Should you wish, you can have a sail in a dinghy in the presence of our qualified instructors, but remember to bring some old clothes and a windproof, or relax in our clubhouse and watch racing on the lake.
- The Standard dinghies have a larger sail of 6.7 square metres.
- A friend invited me to go sailing in a dinghy, again on a stormy day.
- Still undaunted by what was acknowledged, at the time, as the longest distance ever sailed in an open dinghy out of sight of land, the King planted a flag at the base to commemorate the event.
- He's really in a dinghy, its mast little taller than its sole occupant!
- Some other members were on hand to demonstrate how to rig the sails on a sailing dinghy and show the layout of a boat to the trainees.
- Some categories of boats are full, such as yachts, sailing dinghies and self-drive motor boats.
- Angry coastguards in North Wales today condemned as ‘madness’ children being allowed to sail out in tiny dinghies.
- If you don't sail a dinghy well you don't actually go anywhere, but in a cat you pull the sails in and then point vaguely in the right direction and it can go like a bullet from a gun.
- As I looked at these tremendous pedal extremities, I mused that I sail a dinghy, not much bigger than his boots, on the open waters of the Gulf of Thailand.
- Though the wind seemed disappointingly light, I was excited to be on an 18 foot yacht, having sailed before only in dinghies.
- I was sailing dinghies at the time and expressed an interest in having a go at sailmaking as a profession, so I wrote to him and he responded by calling me in for a meeting.
1. 1.1 A small inflatable rubber boat.
  （充气式）小橡皮筏
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here's a tip - take a bulk spool of line and an inflatable dinghy with you.
  On June 25 this year, he and a friend, Misha, had ventured out into the water on a rubber dinghy, near their friends' country house on Sinovetskoye lake, 69 km from St Petersburg.
  The men used an inflatable dinghy to row alongside the SeaFrance vessel as she prepared to leave Calais and then climbed on to a metal fender 6ft above the water level.
  His group set off aboard a rubber dinghy, but was never heard from again.
  I use a doubled over sleeping mat to save weight but small inflatable dinghies can be purchased locally and are ideal.
  As the two crewmen parachuted into the sea, the back part of their ejection seats fell away and the bottom part turned into an inflatable dinghy as they hit the water.
  A sailor was left fuming after thieves stole the inflatable dinghy he had used to get from his boat to shore.
  Police, fire and lifeboat crews used inflatable dinghies to evacuate some of the residents from their homes.
  Meanwhile, two young boys, aged 8 and 13, had a lucky escape yesterday afternoon when they were carried out to sea on an inflatable dinghy.
  We anchor alone in the lee of the cay, pile into the inflatable dinghy, don our masks and fins, and spend the next hour swimming with dolphins.
  The lifeboat located four kayakers, who had landed at a cove east of Spain tower, and the lifeboat launched an inflatable dinghy to rescue the stranded kayakers.
  New rides being offered for the first time this year include the Wave Runner ride an exciting family water coaster where participant whoosh down a trough of fast-moving water in a rubber dinghy.
  A rubber dinghy rushed at full speed to and fro along the Moscow River with a poster saying ‘No war’.
  These are three towering water chutes, in varying levels of steepness, down which you plunge in a rubber dinghy.
  There are relatively few amusement arcades but plenty of shops selling brightly-coloured buckets, spades, inflatable dinghies and beach balls, not to mention lettered rock and ices.
  This, too, will be the venue for the Festival Regatta, when inflatable dinghies will race from Barrow Bridge to Spa Bridge.
  A busy summer's day on Ullswater turned to tragedy as two girls in an inflatable dinghy watched their father slip beneath the cold waters never to resurface alive, an inquest heard.
  He had a visit from a fire and rescue team in a rubber dinghy, checking to make sure he was all right - and at one point his girlfriend Brenda floated supplies down to him from Skeldergate Bridge wrapped in plastic bin-liners.
  For the adventurous, Loves has rubber dinghies, beach balls with attachments and even an innocent, polka-dotted dairy cow.
  The La Malouine was nearest and proceeded to attempt to pick up the crew that by this time were in their rubber dinghy.

Origin

Early 19th century (denoting a rowing boat used on rivers in India): from Hindi ḍiṅgī. The -gh in English serves to indicate the hard g.

词汇	dinghy
释义	Definition of dinghy in English: dinghy nounPlural dinghies ˈdɪŋɡiˈdɪŋiˈdɪŋi 1A small boat for recreation or racing, especially an open boat with a mast and sails. 小舢板，小游艇 Example sentencesExamples The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright. Fitz smiled at this, remembering his own boyhood dreams as he'd sailed a small dinghy and thought of bigger boats. Yet Emma has just returned to her roots, sailing a dinghy in the Clyde with a 15-year-old girl from Helensburgh Sailing Club, and professes to have enjoyed every minute of it. Though the wind seemed disappointingly light, I was excited to be on an 18 foot yacht, having sailed before only in dinghies. If you don't sail a dinghy well you don't actually go anywhere, but in a cat you pull the sails in and then point vaguely in the right direction and it can go like a bullet from a gun. I used to live in Guernsey and I learnt to windsurf and sail dinghies. It was an eight-foot sailing dinghy with high freeboard. As I looked at these tremendous pedal extremities, I mused that I sail a dinghy, not much bigger than his boots, on the open waters of the Gulf of Thailand. Angry coastguards in North Wales today condemned as ‘madness’ children being allowed to sail out in tiny dinghies. The Standard dinghies have a larger sail of 6.7 square metres. Should you wish, you can have a sail in a dinghy in the presence of our qualified instructors, but remember to bring some old clothes and a windproof, or relax in our clubhouse and watch racing on the lake. Some other members were on hand to demonstrate how to rig the sails on a sailing dinghy and show the layout of a boat to the trainees. So why would any person in their right mind nail their colours to the mast of a leaky dinghy rather than a majestic tall ship? The access dinghy he uses to sail is controlled by a hand operated joystick, allowing him a freedom of movement he lacks on land. Some categories of boats are full, such as yachts, sailing dinghies and self-drive motor boats. A friend invited me to go sailing in a dinghy, again on a stormy day. Still undaunted by what was acknowledged, at the time, as the longest distance ever sailed in an open dinghy out of sight of land, the King planted a flag at the base to commemorate the event. He's really in a dinghy, its mast little taller than its sole occupant! I was sailing dinghies at the time and expressed an interest in having a go at sailmaking as a profession, so I wrote to him and he responded by calling me in for a meeting. Moroccan authorities said last week that the suspects planned to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the strait to attack the vessels. 1.1 A small inflatable rubber boat. （充气式）小橡皮筏 Example sentencesExamples A busy summer's day on Ullswater turned to tragedy as two girls in an inflatable dinghy watched their father slip beneath the cold waters never to resurface alive, an inquest heard. The lifeboat located four kayakers, who had landed at a cove east of Spain tower, and the lifeboat launched an inflatable dinghy to rescue the stranded kayakers. As the two crewmen parachuted into the sea, the back part of their ejection seats fell away and the bottom part turned into an inflatable dinghy as they hit the water. Here's a tip - take a bulk spool of line and an inflatable dinghy with you. His group set off aboard a rubber dinghy, but was never heard from again. Police, fire and lifeboat crews used inflatable dinghies to evacuate some of the residents from their homes. For the adventurous, Loves has rubber dinghies, beach balls with attachments and even an innocent, polka-dotted dairy cow. The La Malouine was nearest and proceeded to attempt to pick up the crew that by this time were in their rubber dinghy. He had a visit from a fire and rescue team in a rubber dinghy, checking to make sure he was all right - and at one point his girlfriend Brenda floated supplies down to him from Skeldergate Bridge wrapped in plastic bin-liners. We anchor alone in the lee of the cay, pile into the inflatable dinghy, don our masks and fins, and spend the next hour swimming with dolphins. New rides being offered for the first time this year include the Wave Runner ride an exciting family water coaster where participant whoosh down a trough of fast-moving water in a rubber dinghy. Meanwhile, two young boys, aged 8 and 13, had a lucky escape yesterday afternoon when they were carried out to sea on an inflatable dinghy. A rubber dinghy rushed at full speed to and fro along the Moscow River with a poster saying ‘No war’. I use a doubled over sleeping mat to save weight but small inflatable dinghies can be purchased locally and are ideal. These are three towering water chutes, in varying levels of steepness, down which you plunge in a rubber dinghy. This, too, will be the venue for the Festival Regatta, when inflatable dinghies will race from Barrow Bridge to Spa Bridge. On June 25 this year, he and a friend, Misha, had ventured out into the water on a rubber dinghy, near their friends' country house on Sinovetskoye lake, 69 km from St Petersburg. There are relatively few amusement arcades but plenty of shops selling brightly-coloured buckets, spades, inflatable dinghies and beach balls, not to mention lettered rock and ices. A sailor was left fuming after thieves stole the inflatable dinghy he had used to get from his boat to shore. The men used an inflatable dinghy to row alongside the SeaFrance vessel as she prepared to leave Calais and then climbed on to a metal fender 6ft above the water level. Origin Early 19th century (denoting a rowing boat used on rivers in India): from Hindi ḍiṅgī. The -gh in English serves to indicate the hard g. Rhymes clingy, springy, stingy, stringy, swingy, thingy, zingy Definition of dinghy in US English: dinghy nounˈdɪŋiˈdiNGē 1A small boat for recreation or racing, especially an open boat with a mast and sails. 小舢板，小游艇 Example sentencesExamples The access dinghy he uses to sail is controlled by a hand operated joystick, allowing him a freedom of movement he lacks on land. Fitz smiled at this, remembering his own boyhood dreams as he'd sailed a small dinghy and thought of bigger boats. It was an eight-foot sailing dinghy with high freeboard. Moroccan authorities said last week that the suspects planned to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the strait to attack the vessels. Yet Emma has just returned to her roots, sailing a dinghy in the Clyde with a 15-year-old girl from Helensburgh Sailing Club, and professes to have enjoyed every minute of it. The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright. I used to live in Guernsey and I learnt to windsurf and sail dinghies. So why would any person in their right mind nail their colours to the mast of a leaky dinghy rather than a majestic tall ship? Should you wish, you can have a sail in a dinghy in the presence of our qualified instructors, but remember to bring some old clothes and a windproof, or relax in our clubhouse and watch racing on the lake. The Standard dinghies have a larger sail of 6.7 square metres. A friend invited me to go sailing in a dinghy, again on a stormy day. Still undaunted by what was acknowledged, at the time, as the longest distance ever sailed in an open dinghy out of sight of land, the King planted a flag at the base to commemorate the event. He's really in a dinghy, its mast little taller than its sole occupant! Some other members were on hand to demonstrate how to rig the sails on a sailing dinghy and show the layout of a boat to the trainees. Some categories of boats are full, such as yachts, sailing dinghies and self-drive motor boats. Angry coastguards in North Wales today condemned as ‘madness’ children being allowed to sail out in tiny dinghies. If you don't sail a dinghy well you don't actually go anywhere, but in a cat you pull the sails in and then point vaguely in the right direction and it can go like a bullet from a gun. As I looked at these tremendous pedal extremities, I mused that I sail a dinghy, not much bigger than his boots, on the open waters of the Gulf of Thailand. Though the wind seemed disappointingly light, I was excited to be on an 18 foot yacht, having sailed before only in dinghies. I was sailing dinghies at the time and expressed an interest in having a go at sailmaking as a profession, so I wrote to him and he responded by calling me in for a meeting. 1.1 A small inflatable rubber boat. （充气式）小橡皮筏 Example sentencesExamples Here's a tip - take a bulk spool of line and an inflatable dinghy with you. On June 25 this year, he and a friend, Misha, had ventured out into the water on a rubber dinghy, near their friends' country house on Sinovetskoye lake, 69 km from St Petersburg. The men used an inflatable dinghy to row alongside the SeaFrance vessel as she prepared to leave Calais and then climbed on to a metal fender 6ft above the water level. His group set off aboard a rubber dinghy, but was never heard from again. I use a doubled over sleeping mat to save weight but small inflatable dinghies can be purchased locally and are ideal. As the two crewmen parachuted into the sea, the back part of their ejection seats fell away and the bottom part turned into an inflatable dinghy as they hit the water. A sailor was left fuming after thieves stole the inflatable dinghy he had used to get from his boat to shore. Police, fire and lifeboat crews used inflatable dinghies to evacuate some of the residents from their homes. Meanwhile, two young boys, aged 8 and 13, had a lucky escape yesterday afternoon when they were carried out to sea on an inflatable dinghy. We anchor alone in the lee of the cay, pile into the inflatable dinghy, don our masks and fins, and spend the next hour swimming with dolphins. The lifeboat located four kayakers, who had landed at a cove east of Spain tower, and the lifeboat launched an inflatable dinghy to rescue the stranded kayakers. New rides being offered for the first time this year include the Wave Runner ride an exciting family water coaster where participant whoosh down a trough of fast-moving water in a rubber dinghy. A rubber dinghy rushed at full speed to and fro along the Moscow River with a poster saying ‘No war’. These are three towering water chutes, in varying levels of steepness, down which you plunge in a rubber dinghy. There are relatively few amusement arcades but plenty of shops selling brightly-coloured buckets, spades, inflatable dinghies and beach balls, not to mention lettered rock and ices. This, too, will be the venue for the Festival Regatta, when inflatable dinghies will race from Barrow Bridge to Spa Bridge. A busy summer's day on Ullswater turned to tragedy as two girls in an inflatable dinghy watched their father slip beneath the cold waters never to resurface alive, an inquest heard. He had a visit from a fire and rescue team in a rubber dinghy, checking to make sure he was all right - and at one point his girlfriend Brenda floated supplies down to him from Skeldergate Bridge wrapped in plastic bin-liners. For the adventurous, Loves has rubber dinghies, beach balls with attachments and even an innocent, polka-dotted dairy cow. The La Malouine was nearest and proceeded to attempt to pick up the crew that by this time were in their rubber dinghy. Origin Early 19th century (denoting a rowing boat used on rivers in India): from Hindi ḍiṅgī. The -gh in English serves to indicate the hard g.
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