Cruise

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.

   “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.”

2. isim Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
3. isim A period spent in the Marine Corps.

   “I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]”

4. isim A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group.

   “Near-synonym: car show”

5. isim A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).
6. fiil To sail about, especially for pleasure.

   “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,[…].”

7. fiil To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
8. fiil To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
9. fiil To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
10. fiil To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
11. fiil To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on

    “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.”

12. fiil To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
13. fiil To win easily and convincingly.

    “Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.”

14. fiil To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
15. fiil 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).

    “blast and cruise”

16. isim A small cup; cruse.

    “And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

17. özel isim A surname from Anglo-Norman.