sail

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
3. The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
4. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
5. A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
6. The conning tower of a submarine.
7. The blade of a windmill.
8. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
9. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
10. A sailfish.
11. an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
12. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.

Verb

1. 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.
2. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
3. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
4. To set sail; to begin a voyage.
5. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
6. To move briskly but sedately.
7. To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.

Concepts

sail

navigate

cruise

canvas

voyage

float

drift

glide

set sail

sheet

drive

leave

fly

depart

bob

canvass

pilot

move gently

soar

skitter

wing

sweep

yacht

go

cloth

go away

boat

row

flight

run

strut

swagger

walk slowly with an air

slide

slip along

begin a journey

breeze

flit

muslin

ride

trip

rise

tower

clothing

steam

paddle

brattice

sailing-vessel

sailing-ship

set off

set out

pass

sails

swim

ply

dorsal fin

start

mat

sail cloth

sailing

rack

scud

take the field

departure

vane

large

large amount

many

move along

plenty

throw

jaunt

cross

flow

swim across

blade

towelling

flag

sailing ship

sailing vessel

tarp

hoist sail

gable

tent fly

sailcloth

hasten

swift horse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/seɪl/

Etymology

From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English seġl, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Danish sejl, Swedish segel.