careen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
2. fiil To tilt on one side.
3. fiil To lurch or sway violently from side to side.

   “They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening.”

4. fiil To tilt or lean while in motion.
5. fiil To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
6. fiil To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.

   “He tries for a lot of things, careening wildly from earnest romance to feel-good comedy to hackneyed suspense, all the while leaving it up to the audience to suss out the moral complexity and existential terror underneath the glossy surface.”

7. isim The position of a ship laid on one side.