sail
see also: SAIL
Pronunciation
SAIL
Noun
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see also: SAIL
Pronunciation
- IPA: /seɪl/, [seɪ̯ɫ]
From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English seġl, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą.
Nounsail
- (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- When we haue laught to ſee the ſailes conceiue / And grow big bellied with the wanton winde; […]
- (nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
- Take in sail: a storm is coming.
- (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
- A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- Let's go for a sail.
- (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
- Twenty sail were in sight.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- The blade of a windmill.
- A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
- The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
- (fishing) A sailfish.
- We caught three sails today.
- (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaur and synapsid
- Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 42:
- Like an eagle […] soaring / / To weather his broad sails.
- French: voile
- French: balade en mer, balade en voilier
- German: Törn
- Portuguese: velejada
- French: flotteur, pneumatophore
- Portuguese: crista
- Russian: па́рус
From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan, from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijaną.
Verbsail (sails, present participle sailing; simple past and past participle sailed)
To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power. - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, Canto IX:
- Fair ship, that from the Italian shore,
Sailest the placid ocean-plains
With my lost Arthur’s loved remains,
Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.
- To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
- To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
- We sail for Australia tomorrow.
- To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
- As is a winged messenger of heaven, […] / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.
- 2002 March 20, Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (PlayStation video game, North American version), Konami:
- [flavor text of the card "Spirit of the Winds"] A spirit of the wind that freely sails the skies.
- (intransitive) To move briskly but sedately.
- The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.
- (card games, transitive) To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
- 2007, Johnny Hughes, Texas Poker Wisdom, page 22:
- He would sit his hat across the room, and we would sail cards into it.
- French: (intransitive) voguer, (transitive) gouverner, faire du bateau, faire de la voile, naviguer
- German: segeln
- Italian: navigare a vela, veleggiare, condurre
- Portuguese: velejar
- Russian: плыть под парусами
- Spanish: navegar
- French: voler
- German: segeln, gleiten
- Italian: veleggiare
- Portuguese: deslizar
SAIL
Noun
sail (plural sails)
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