SAIL

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “When we haue laught to ſee the ſailes conceiue / And grow big bellied with the wanton winde; […]”

2. isim The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.

   “Take in sail: a storm is coming.”

3. isim The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
4. isim A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.

   “Let's go for a sail.”

5. isim A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

   “Twenty sail were in sight.”

6. isim The conning tower of a submarine.
7. isim The blade of a windmill.

   “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.”

8. isim A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
9. isim The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
10. isim A sailfish.

    “We caught three sails today.”

11. isim an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
12. isim Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.

    “Like an eagle […]soaring / / To weather his broad sails.”

13. fiil 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.

    “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.”

14. fiil To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
15. fiil To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
16. fiil To set sail; to begin a voyage.

    “We sail for Australia tomorrow.”

17. fiil To move briskly and gracefully through the air.

    “As is a winged messenger of heaven, […] / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.”

18. fiil To move briskly but sedately.

    “The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.”

19. fiil To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.

    “He would sit his hat across the room, and we would sail cards into it.”

20. isim Acronym of snow avalanche impact landform.