different between coasting vs sailing

English

Verb

coasting

1. present participle of coast

Noun

coasting (countable and uncountable, plural coastings)

1. The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
   • 1772, A Select Collection of Letters of the Late Reverend George Whitefield (page 390)

     Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.

2. The act of an already moving vehicle rolling along without use of power for a short distance.

Anagrams

• Costigan, agnostic, angio-CTs, coatings, cotingas, scoating

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?.l??/
• Rhymes: -e?l??

Etymology 1

Verb

sailing

1. present participle of sail

Etymology 2

From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail +? -ing.

Adjective

sailing (not comparable)

1. Travelling by ship.

Derived terms

• sailing boat
• sailing ship
• sailing dinghy
• sailing vessel

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English sailyng, seyling; equivalent to sail +? -ing.

Noun

sailing (countable and uncountable, plural sailings)

1. Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
2. Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
3. the time of departure from a port
4. (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.

Derived terms

• clear sailing
• plain sailing

Translations

References

• “sailing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Gilanis, ailings, aisling, nilgais