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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)

  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)

  1. 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.
  2. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
  3. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
  4. (intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
  5. 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.
  6. (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

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paul

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??l/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /p?l/
  • (cotcaught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /p?l/
  • Rhymes: -??l
  • Homophones: pall, pawl

Etymology 1

Noun

paul (plural pauls)

  1. An old Italian silver coin; a paolo.
    • 1836, Mariana Starke, Travels in Europe and in the Island of Sicily (page 569)
      Shoes and boots are, generally speaking, better made at Florence than in any other part of Italy: the usual price charged for the former is eight pauls the pair; and for the latter from thirty to forty pauls.

Etymology 2

Noun

paul (plural pauls)

  1. Archaic form of pawl.
    • 1850, The Mechanic's Magazine, Register, Journal and Gazette (page 517)
      As soon as the horse again begins to move, the paul will take into the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, and restore to the fly-wheel its original speed.

Anagrams

  • Palu, Pula, ULPA, pula

Malay

Etymology

From Sundanese.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [paol]
  • Rhymes: -aol, -ol

Adjective

paul (Jawi spelling ??????, plural paul-paul)

  1. blue (blue-colored)

Synonyms

  • belau / ?????
  • biru / ?????
  • nila / ?????

Noun

paul (Jawi spelling ??????, plural paul-paul, informal 1st possessive paulku, impolite 2nd possessive paulmu, 3rd possessive paulnya)

  1. blue (colour)

Further reading

  • “paul” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pad?lem (a root), from Latin pal?dem, accusative of pal?s (swamp). Compare Italian padule, Romanian p?dure.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /p?.?u?/
  • Hyphenation: pa?ul

Noun

paul m (plural pauis)

  1. (geography) swamp

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:pântano.


Tok Pisin

Etymology

Probably from English Paul.

Adjective

paul

  1. confused

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