different between move vs sail

English

Alternative forms

• meve (12th to 16th centuries)
• mieve, mooue, moove (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move? (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit ????? (m??vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). More at muff. Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?ov, IPA^(key): /mu?v/
• Rhymes: -u?v

Verb

move (third-person singular simple present moves, present participle moving, simple past and past participle moved)

1. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.

   Synonym: stir

   • 1839, Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95

     Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.

2. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to begin to act

   Synonyms: get moving, stir

4. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.

5. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

6. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another

   Synonyms: stir, impel

7. (transitive, chess, and other games) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game

8. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

   • Seducer of the Peopie, not moved with the Piety of his Life

   • No female arts his mind could move.

9. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).

   Synonyms: affect, trouble

10. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
    • 1905, Livy, translated by Canon Roberts, From the Founding of the City Book 38

      Two days were thus wasted in the quarrel between the consuls. It was clear that while Faminius was present no decision could be arrived at. Owing to Flaminius' absence through illness, Aemilius seized the opportunity to move a resolution which the senate adopted. Its purport was that the Ambracians should have all their property restored to them; they should be free to live under their own laws; they should impose such harbour dues and other imposts by land and sea as they desired, provided that the Romans and their Italian allies were exempt.

    • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth

      And therefore they are to be blamed alike, both who moue and who decline warre […]

11. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a complaint).
12. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:

      "Sir," seyde Sir Boys, "ye nede nat to meve me of such maters, for well ye wote I woll do what I may to please you."

13. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
14. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.

15. (intransitive, obsolete) To bow or salute upon meeting.
16. (transitive, slang) To sell, to market (especially, but not exclusively, illegal products)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• actuate
• agitate
• impel
• incite
• incline
• induce
• influence
• instigate
• offer
• persuade
• prompt
• propose
• rouse
• stir
• transfer

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

move (plural moves)

1. The act of moving; a movement.
2. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

3. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.

4. The event of changing one's residence.

5. A change in strategy.

6. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[3]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.

7. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.

   Synonym: play

Synonyms

• (act of moving): Thesaurus:movement
• (moving to another place): removal, relocation

Derived terms

Translations

References

• move in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Finnish

Etymology

A contraction of motivaatiovemppa.

Noun

move

1. (military slang) A conscript who acquires or has acquired exemptions from physical education for falsified reasons of health, i.e. by feigning sick.

Declension

Derived terms

• verbs: movettaa

Galician

Verb

move

1. third-person singular present indicative of mover
2. second-person singular imperative of mover

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mauvais (“bad”)

Adjective

move

1. bad

Interlingua

Verb

move

1. present of mover
2. imperative of mover

Latin

Verb

mov?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of move?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.vi/
• Rhymes: -?vi

Verb

move

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of mover
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of mover

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)

1. (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.
2. (nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.

3. (uncountable) 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.

5. (dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

6. (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
7. The blade of a windmill.
8. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
9. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
10. (fishing) A sailfish.

11. (paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
12. 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)

2. 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.
3. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
4. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
5. (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.

6. 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.
7. (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

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. dirt, dross, impurity

2. 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)

1. (nautical) sail

Declension

Derived terms

• sailan
• sailön

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin solea (“sole”).

Noun

sail f (plural seiliau, not mutable)

1. 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