cruise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.
Inflected forms:
form: cruises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cruize
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cruises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cruising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cruised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cruised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cruize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
pos: noun
examples: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province.
gloss: Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
pos: noun
gloss: A period spent in the Marine Corps.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]
The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise.
gloss: A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: car show
gloss: A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To sail about, especially for pleasure.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].
gloss: To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
colloquial
gloss: To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him.
I saw you cruise that white guy over there.
The one with the wavy hair (yeah).
I cruised him too, but I couldn't get through.
We see him [Joseph Huff-Hannon] approach several sets of men to ak if they have "a minute to talk about climate change"; they dismiss him out of hand, clearly more interesting in playing volleyball and cruising—including cruising Huff-Hannon himself—than in listening to bad news.
gloss: To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To win easily and convincingly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
gloss: To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast).
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: blast and cruise
Derived words: autocruise
barge cruise
boomless cruise
booze cruise
cruise car
cruise climb
cruise-climb
cruise control
Cruise Elroy
cruiseferry
cruisegoer
cruiselike
cruise liner
cruise missile
cruise ship
cruiseway
cruisewear
cruisey
cruisy
kitty cruise
microcruise
minicruise
pleasure cruise
supercruise
widow's cruise
cruiser
beach cruiser
cruisable
cruising for a bruising
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: cruisen
lang: Esperanto
word: krozi
lang: Estonian
word: lantima
lang: Finnish
word: kruisailla
lang: Portuguese
word: caçar