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chase
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?e?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Late Latin capti?re, present active infinitive of capti?, from Latin capt?, frequentative of capi?. Compare French chasser (“to hunt”, “to chase”), Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), Portuguese caçar (“to hunt”), see Norwegian skysse (“to hunt”).Doublet of catch.
Alternative forms
- chace (obsolete)
Noun
chase (countable and uncountable, plural chases)
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- A hunt.
- (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
- (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 14:
- Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 14:
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- (obsolete) A wild animal that is hunted.
- Synonym: game
- 1575, George Gascoigne, The Noble Arte of Venerie of Hunting, London: Christopher Barker, Chapter 40, p. 111,[1]
- As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act V, Scene 2,[2]
- Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
- For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
- (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)
- (transitive) To pursue.
- (transitive) To follow at speed.
- (transitive) To hunt.
- (transitive) To seek to attain.
- the team are chasing their first home win this season.
- (transitive) To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
- He spends all his free time chasing girls.
- (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser
- I need something to chase this shot with.
- (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.
- (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch
- Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.
- (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed
- The rally chased the starter.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:chase.
Synonyms
- pursue
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- follow
Etymology 2
Perhaps from French châsse (“case”, “reliquary”), from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.
Noun
chase (plural chases)
- (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
Translations
Etymology 3
Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa, box. Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase.
Noun
chase (plural chases)
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- The cavity of a mold.
- (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
Translations
Verb
chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)
- (transitive) To groove; indent.
- (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
- (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
Translations
Anagrams
- Chaes, Cheas, HACEs, aches, e-cash, ecash
Further reading
- chase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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sail
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?l/, [se???]
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophone: sale
Etymology 1
From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English se?l, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *segl?. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Swedish segel.
Noun
sail (countable and uncountable, plural sails)
- (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.
- (nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
- (uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
- A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- The blade of a windmill.
- A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
- The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
- (fishing) A sailfish.
- (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
- Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:sail
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English si?lan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijan?. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.
Verb
sail (third-person singular simple present sails, present participle sailing, simple past and past participle sailed)
- 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.
- To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
- To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
- (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
- To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
- [flavor text of the card "Spirit of the Winds"] A spirit of the wind that freely sails the skies.
- (intransitive) To move briskly.
Derived terms
- sail close to the wind
Translations
External links
- Sail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Alis, Isla, LIAs, LISA, Lias, Lisa, SiAl, ails, lais, lias, sial
Basque
Noun
sail
- area
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sail. Doublet of zeil
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?l/
- Hyphenation: sail
- Rhymes: -e?l
Noun
sail n (plural sails)
- (nautical) The fin or sail of a submarine.
- Synonym: toren
Irish
Alternative forms
- sal
Etymology
From Old Irish sal, from Proto-Celtic *sal?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal?/
Noun
sail f (genitive singular saile)
- dirt, dross, impurity
- stain, defilement
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “sal” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 589.
- "sail" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “sail” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Volapük
Noun
sail (nominative plural sails)
- (nautical) sail
Declension
Derived terms
- sailan
- sailön
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin solea (“sole”).
Noun
sail f (plural seiliau, not mutable)
- base, basis, foundation
- Synonym: sylfaen
Derived terms
- seiliedig (“established; fundamental”)
References
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “sail”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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