sail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
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Etymology: From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English seġl, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Danish sejl, Swedish segel.
Inflected forms:
form: sails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When we haue laught to ſee the ſailes conceiue / And grow big bellied with the wanton winde; […]
gloss: The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Take in sail: a storm is coming.
gloss: The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let's go for a sail.
gloss: A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Twenty sail were in sight.
"[…] The quay is upwards of 1,000 feet in length, and capable of accommodating more than 100 sail of traders; and there are generally a considerable number of vessels of from 40 to 300 tons burden, from various parts of the world, waiting to receive their cargoes."
gloss: The conning tower of a submarine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The blade of a windmill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So furious had been the gusts, that high buildings in town had had the lead stripped off their roofs; and in the country, trees had been torn up, and sails of windmills carried away; and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death.
gloss: A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sailfish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We caught three sails today.
gloss: an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Like an eagle […]soaring / / To weather his broad sails.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
pos: verb
gloss: To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
pos: verb
gloss: To set sail; to begin a voyage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We sail for Australia tomorrow.
gloss: To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
pos: verb
examples: As is a winged messenger of heaven, […] / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.
[flavor text of the card "Spirit of the Winds"] A spirit of the wind that freely sails the skies.
A hopeful ball from Forest right-back Brendan Moloney to the left edge of the area was met first by Ruddy but his attempted clearance rebounded off Tyson's leg and sailed in.
gloss: To move briskly but sedately.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.
gloss: To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He would sit his hat across the room, and we would sail cards into it.
Synonyms: sail
Related words: W:Template:Sail Types
W:Parts of a sail
Derived words: after-sail
balloon sail
by sail
crowd sail
drag sail
drift sail
electric sail
foresail
forestaysail
full sail
gaff sail
gaffsail
headsail
knock the wind out of someone's sails
light sail
lugsail
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
mainsail
make sail
mizzensail
moonsail
photon sail
point of sail
riding sail
ringsail
sailback
sailboard
sailboat
sail-by
sail-by salute
sailcloth
sail coat
sail curve
sailduck
sailer
sailfin
sail fine
sailfish
sail-fluke
sailflying
sail foam
sailing
sail-like
saillike
sail loft
sail-plan
sailpunk
sailray
sail-road
sailroom
sailship
sail sign
sailsman
sail vault
sail wagon
sailwear
sailworthy
saily
sail-yard
sailyard
sailyarn
scudding sail
set sail
set sails
shoulder-of-mutton sail
skysail
smoke sail
solar sail
spritsail
squaresail
square sail
staysail
storm sail
strike sail
studding sail
take the wind out of someone's sails
topgallant sail
topsail
trim one's sails
under sail
windsail
wingsail
working sail
oversail
asail
besail
circumsail
daysail
outsail
parasail
resail
sailable
sailage
sailby
sail by
sail close to the wind
sailcraft
sailless
sailmaker
sailmaking
sail on another board
sailor
sailpast
sailplane
sail the high seas
sail the Red Sea
sail through
sail under false colors
that ship has already sailed
that ship has sailed
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