different between sail vs flota

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

English

Etymology

Spanish. See flotilla.

Noun

flota (plural flotas)

1. A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain products from Spanish America.

References

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

Anagrams

• aloft, float

Catalan

Etymology

From French flotte.

Noun

flota f (plural flotes)

1. crowd
2. fleet

Further reading

• “flota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flota” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “flota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

From German Flotte.

Noun

flota f

1. naval fleet

Further reading

• flota in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• flota in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Icelandic

Noun

flota

1. indefinite accusative singular of floti
2. indefinite dative singular of floti
3. indefinite genitive singular of floti
4. indefinite accusative plural of floti
5. indefinite genitive plural of floti

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flutô (“a float; raft; boat; ship”). Cognate with Old Norse floti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flo.t?/

Noun

flota m (nominative plural flotan)

1. sailor
2. ship

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: float
• Scots: flote

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?.ta/

Noun

flota f

1. naval fleet
2. (slang, humorous) money

Declension

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?flota]

Noun

flota f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of flot?

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flôta/
• Hyphenation: flo?ta

Noun

fl?ta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. fleet

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flota/, [?flo.t?a]

Etymology 1

From French flotte.

Noun

flota f (plural flotas)

1. fleet
2. (Latin America) crowd

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

flota

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of flotar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of flotar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of flotar.

Further reading

• “flota” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.