I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ferry port (= for boats carrying people or goods across a narrow area of water )
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Dover is an important ferry port.
ferry/bus terminal
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boat
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Only an occasional ferry boat makes a last, bleak journey across the river to Birkenhead and the Wirral.
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There are ferry boats plying between different points, several sandy beaches, lots of yachts and dinghies and windsurfing.
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An overhaul of the Woodchurch ferry boat at a cost of £1.5m.
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The ferry boat is rusty and old, like the ferryman.
car
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The car ferry runs several times a day.
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From 75 minutes by car ferry and from 30 minutes by hovercraft.
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The Dover car ferry costs from £83 with an extra charge of £13 per adult.
company
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Despite the encouraging figures, the Chunnel has prompted ferry companies to smarten up their act, and offer better deals.
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We are having the ferry company over to see how it works, but no decision has been made.
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And many of them were angered at what they said was a lack of information from the ferry company on replacement sailings.
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Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning wasn't working.
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Caledonian MacBrayne, the State-owned ferry company , runs two car ferries on the crossing.
crossing
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Price includes ferry crossing and insurance.
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Several ferry crossings and jetfoil crossing daily.
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The price includes half-board hotel accommodation, touring bike and return ferry crossing .
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Prices include ferry crossings on Sally Ferries from Ramsgate to Dunkirk.
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Prices start from £366 per week for a property that sleeps four, including return ferry crossing .
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Details of your outboard and inbound ferry crossing will be included in your travel documentation.
operator
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The offenders were caught under a crackdown by ferry operator P&O Stena.
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The drive to integrate back and front office systems among tour and ferry operators is similarly driving revenues.
port
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Its estimates of job losses in the ferry ports are still broadly accepted although there is little evidence of much decline as yet.
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The station at Dieppe is less than half-a-mile from the ferry port and is well-signposted.
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This is a small town between Boulogne and Calais, which is another ferry port .
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No bluebirds over the white cliffs; the lights are shining bright at the ferry port .
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This phenomenon can best be observed in Santander, that most elegant of ferry ports .
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This led from Rome to the ferry port of Egnatia, between Bari and Brindisi.
service
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In fact, because the roads into Bellagio are very difficult, most people use the ferry services to get around.
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All over town, bridges were closed, ferry service interrupted and downtown streets cordoned off.
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The only negative feature of the year's trade was the closure of the Belfast/Liverpool ferry service .
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The ferry service was making a loss and had stopped running for the winter.
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There is a ferry service to Rotterdam.
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When they replaced the ten-minute peak-hour ferry services with 20-minute sailings, in 1975, it was chaos.
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Instead it has been assumed that Eurotunnel's fares will always be the same as those of the ferry services .
terminal
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The other £3 million was spent on the three ferry terminals .
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Courtesy coaches run between Dunkirk's ferry terminal , town centre and hypermarket.
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To date £6.7 million has been spent on two incomplete ferry terminals at Gills Bay and Burwick.
■ VERB
board
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At half past five next morning I boarded the ferry , and was on the final stage of my journey.
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Hundreds were crammed into two narrow gangways to board ferries .
catch
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The whole job had to be finished so they could catch the same ferry back.
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Anyone who has driven down the Dover Road to catch a ferry might agree.
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Then they headed for Bath before catching the ferry home.
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She was spotted catching the Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire ferry .
take
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She would go to the hotel for what was left of the night, and take the ferry in the morning.
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Further to the north you take the ferry across from East to West Cowes to avoid a big detour inland via Newport.
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We meet up in Dover, take the ferry over to Calais and motor down to Canet Plage in comfort.
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Pete and I took an afternoon ferry from Leknes to Napp, and sweltered the bikes over an unnamed pass to Vareid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the ferry incident, we make good time.
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Boats and ferries potter the local coves and islands if you haven't done enough pottering in our own craft.
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Extra ferries are needed to bring them back home.
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He went out and took the path that leads up over the ridge to the ferry .
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On South Street, from the direction of the Governors Island ferry , came another flock of street urchins.
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Our sails are down and the ferry has the right of way.
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The station at Dieppe is less than half-a-mile from the ferry port and is well-signposted.
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Two children found dead on ferry Two children have been found dead from asphyxiation on board a ferry crossing from Swansea to Cork.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He and the pilot who was ferrying him to Long Tieng were not afraid.
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He hopes to expand the existing tram system that ferries visitors from outlying parking lots to key spots through out the park.
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His last song attracted a school of dolphins, one of which ferried Arion on his back all the way to Corinth.
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Now he works as a moto-driver, ferrying tourists around Siem Reap and Angkor.
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Now my body welcomes every roll and pitch of the stubby Island Romance ferrying me back to my nubble.
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The thieves had obviously been back and forth over the ravine ferrying everything back to their car.
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They ferry kindergartners from piano to karate to computer to art classes.
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Walter will find him safe lying at the holding until Iago can ferry him over and see him on his way.