amerikai:
brit:
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. (nautical,uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
Take in sail: a storm is coming.
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.
Let's go for a sail.
5. (plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
Twenty sail were in sight.
6. The blade of a windmill.
7. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
8. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
9. A sailfish.
We caught three sails today.
10. An outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
11. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
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.
We sail for Australia tomorrow.
5. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
6. To move briskly.
The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.