Definitions of Sail [ɪl]

Translate Sail to

Definition of 'Sail'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sail
an area of canvas or other fabric extended on a ship or other vessel or vehicle to catch the wind for propulsion.

2.  sail
a similar apparatus, as on a windmill.

3.  sail
a voyage or excursion esp. in a vessel with sails.

4.  sail
sailing vessels collectively.

5.  sail
the sails of a ship or boat.

6. (v.i.) sail
to travel on water in a ship or boat.

7.  sail
to manage a sailboat, esp. for sport.

8.  sail
to begin a journey by water.

9.  sail
to move along in a manner suggestive of a sailing vessel:
caravans sailing along.

10.  sail
to move along in a stately, effortless way:
to sail into a room.

11. (v.t.) sail
to sail upon, over, or through:
to sail the seven seas.

12.  sail
to navigate (a vessel).

13.  sail
sail into,

14.  sail
to attack vigorously; assail.

Definition of 'Sail'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sail, canvas, canvass, sheet
a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel

2. (noun) cruise, sail
an ocean trip taken for pleasure

3. (verb) sail
any structure that resembles a sail

4. (verb) sail
traverse or travel on (a body of water)
"We sailed the Atlantic"; "He sailed the Pacific all alone"

5. (verb) sweep, sail
move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
"The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky"

6. (verb) sail
travel on water propelled by wind
"I love sailing, especially on the open sea"; "the ship sails on"

7. (verb) voyage, sail, navigate
travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
"The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow"

Definition of 'Sail'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) sail
(of a large sailboat or ship and its passengers) to travel or move over water
We sail from Miami to Nassau.; a ship sailing up the river

2.  sail
to control a sailboat as it moves over water
My father taught me to sail.; He sails yachts.

3.  sail
to start a trip on a large ship or sailboat
We sail at 4 a.m. tomorrow.

4.  sail
to move quickly and smoothly
She came sailing into the room in a long red gown.

5. (noun) sail
a piece of strong cloth attached to a sailboat to catch the wind
Take the sails down and lower the anchor.

6.  sail
a trip in a sailboat
We went for a sail.

Definition of 'Sail'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Sail
an extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water

2. (noun) Sail
anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail

3. (noun) Sail
a wing; a van

4. (noun) Sail
the extended surface of the arm of a windmill

5. (noun) Sail
a sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft

6. (noun) Sail
a passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water

7. (noun) Sail
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 the action of steam or other power

8. (noun) Sail
to move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl

9. (noun) Sail
to be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton

10. (noun) Sail
to set sail; to begin a voyage

11. (noun) Sail
to move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird

12. (verb) Sail
to pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force

13. (verb) Sail
to fly through; to glide or move smoothly through

14. (verb) Sail
to direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship

Definitions of 'Sail'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Sail
1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. An important site in the early development of LISP; with the MIT AI Lab, BBN, CMU, XEROX PARC, and the Unix community, one of the major wellsprings of technical innovation and hacker-culture traditions (see the WAITS entry for details). The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990, scant weeks after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officially decommissioned.

2. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language used at SAIL (sense 1). It was an Algol-60 derivative with a coroutining facility and some new data types intended for building search trees and association lists.

Translation of 'Sail'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a sheet of strong cloth spread to catch the wind, by which a ship is driven forward.
Afrikaans: seil	Arabic: شِراع	Bulgarian: платно
Brazilian: vela	Czech: plachta	German: das Segel
Danish: sejl	Greek: ιστίο, πανί	Spanish: vela
Estonian: puri	Farsi: بادبان	Finnish: purje
French: voile	Hebrew: מִפרָש	Hindi: पाल बादबान
Croatian: jedro	Hungarian: vitorla	Indonesian: layar
Icelandic: segl	Italian: vela	Japanese: 帆
Korean: 돛	Lithuanian: burė	Latvian: bura
Malay: layar	Dutch: zeil	Norwegian: seil
Polish: żagiel	Persian: بادبان	Pashto: بادوان، دبېړۍ سفر: په بېړ
Portuguese: vela	Romanian: velă, pânză de corabie	Russian: парус
Slovak: plachta	Slovenian: jadro	Serbian: jedro
Swedish: segel	Thai: ใบเรือ	Turkish: yelken
Taiwanese: 帆	Ukrainian: вітрило	Urdu: بادبان
Vietnamese: cánh buồm	Chinese: 帆
Get even more *translations for Sail...*