sail

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English [edit]

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Two sailboats racing,
with the wind filling their sails
A square-rigged sail

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Old English seġel, from Proto-Germanic *seglą (compare earlier Middle Low German segel and later Low German sail), cognate with Dutch zeil, German Segel, Danish sejl), from pre-Germanic/Celtic sek-lo (compare Welsh hwyl, Irish séol), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- 'to cut'. More at saw.

Noun [edit]

sail (plural sails)

  1. (nautical) 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. (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
  3. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
    Let's go for a sail.
  4. The blade of a windmill.
  5. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
  6. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
  7. (fishing) A sailfish.
    We caught three sails today.
Hyponyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
a piece of fabric attached to a boat
power harnessed by sails
a trip in a boat
the blade of a windmill
a tower-like structure found on the topside of a submarine
floating organ of siphonophores
sailfish — see sailfish
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Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from sail (noun)

Etymology 2 [edit]

Old English seġlian, cognate to earlier Middle Low German segelen and its descendant Low German sailen.

Verb [edit]

sail (third-person singular simple present sails, present participle sailing, simple past and past participle sailed)

  1. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
  2. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
    • 2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, BBC Sport:
      A hopeful ball from Forest right-back Brendan Moloney to the left edge of the area was met first by Ruddy but his attempted clearance rebounded off Tyson's leg and sailed in.
  3. To move briskly.
Translations [edit]
to ride in a boat, especially sailboat
to move briskly and gracefully through the air
to move briskly

Anagrams [edit]

Basque [edit]

Noun [edit]

sail

  1. area

Irish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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Noun [edit]

sail f (genitive saile)

  1. dirt, dross, impurity
  2. stain, defilement

Declension [edit]

Declension of sail

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative sail
Vocative a shail
Genitive saile
Dative sail

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an tsail
Genitive na saile
Dative leis an tsail

don tsail

Mutation [edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sail shail
after "an", tsail		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Volapük [edit]

Noun [edit]

sail (plural sails)

  1. sail

Declension [edit]

declension of sail
singular plural
nominative sail sails
genitive saila sailas
dative saile sailes
accusative saili sailis
predicative sailu sailus
vocative o sail! o sails!

Derived terms [edit]

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