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hover
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English hoveren, equivalent with hove +? -er (frequentative suffix).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h?.v?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?v?(r)
- (US, formerly also UK) IPA(key): /?h?.v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(r)
Verb
hover (third-person singular simple present hovers, present participle hovering, simple past and past participle hovered)
- (intransitive) To float in the air.
- (intransitive) To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- (intransitive) To waver, or be uncertain.
- (computing, intransitive) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Welsh: hofran
Translations
Noun
hover (plural hovers)
- The act of hovering
Etymology 2
Unknown
Pronunciation
Noun
hover (plural hovers)
- A cover; a shelter; a protection.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)
- 1867, Charles Kingsley, Superstition
- Without the instinct of self-preservation, which causes the sea-anemone to contract its tentacles, or the fish to dash into its hover, species would be extermined wholesale by involuntary suicide.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- høver
Noun
hover m
- indefinite plural of hov
Scots
Verb
hover (third-person singular present hovers, present participle hoverin, past hovert, past participle hovert)
- to hover
- to pause (in hesitation)
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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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