Dinghy vs. Dory — What's the Difference?

A dinghy is a type of small boat, often carried or towed by a larger vessel for use as a lifeboat or tender. Utility dinghies are usually rowboats or have an outboard motor.

A dory is a small, shallow-draft boat, about 5 to 7 metres or 16 to 23 feet long. It is usually a lightweight boat with high sides, a flat bottom and sharp bows.

A small open boat carried or towed as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft by a larger boat.

A small, narrow, flatbottom fishing boat with high sides and a sharp prow.

A small rowboat or motorboat.

Any of various marine fishes of the order Zeiformes, having a spiny dorsal fin and a laterally compressed oval body, especially the John Dory.

An inflatable rubber life raft.

(nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

A small recreational sailboat, especially one designed for racing.

Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

(nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.

A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.

(nautical) A sailing dinghy.

(obsolete) Of a bright yellow or golden color.

(nautical) An inflatable rubber life raft.

A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.

(intransitive) To travel by dinghy.

The American wall-eyed perch; - called also doré. See Pike perch.

A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled

A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.

A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled

Marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters