sail

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

sails

1.
(countable, uncountable)(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.
2.
(uncountable)(nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
Take in sail: a storm is coming.
Đồng nghĩa: canvass
3.
(uncountable)The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
4.
(countable, uncountable)A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
Let's go for a sail.
5.
(countable, dated, uncountable)(dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
Twenty sail were in sight.
6.
(countable, uncountable)(nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
7.
(countable, uncountable)The blade of a windmill.
8.
(countable, uncountable)A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
9.
(countable, uncountable)The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(fishing) A sailfish.
We caught three sails today.
11.
(countable, uncountable)(paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
12.
(countable, uncountable)Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.

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verb

V_es/s

sails

V_ing/Gerund

sailing

V_ed/pp

sailed

1.
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.
2.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
3.
To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
4.
(intransitive)To set sail; to begin a voyage.
We sail for Australia tomorrow.
5.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
6.
(intransitive)To move briskly but sedately.
The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.
7.
(transitive)(card games, transitive) To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.

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canvass

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English seġl, from *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą. Cognate with seil, Segel, zeil, Segel, sejl, segel.