cruise
See also: Cruise
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.
Pronunciation
Noun
cruise (plural cruises)
- A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
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Translations
sea voyage
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Verb
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- (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
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- 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, […].
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- (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
- (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
- (transitive, intransitive, forestry) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
- (transitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
- (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
- (intransitive, sports) To win easily and convincingly.
- Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
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Translations
to sail about
to travel at constant speed
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to move leisurely
forestry: to estimate the quantity of lumber
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to seek a sexual partner
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child development: to walk while holding on to an object
sports: to win easily and convincingly
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English cruise, from Dutch kruisen.
Pronunciation
Noun
cruise m (plural cruises, diminutive cruiseje n)
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise
Noun
cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa or cruisene)
- a cruise
Derived terms
References
- “cruise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise
Noun
cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa)
- a cruise
Derived terms
References
- “cruise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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