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traipse

English

Alternative forms

  • trapes

Etymology

Likely from French trépasser (pass over or beyond).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t?e?ps/, /t???e?ps/
  • Rhymes: -e?ps

Verb

traipse (third-person singular simple present traipses, present participle traipsing, simple past and past participle traipsed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
    • 1728, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, ll. 140-4:
      Lo next two slipshod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness, meditating song, / With tresses staring from poetic dreams, / And never wash'd, but in Castalia’s streams [...].
  2. (intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
  3. (transitive, colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort; to walk about or over (a place).

Synonyms

  • (walk about): gad, travel, walk
  • (walk about or over (a place)): cover, travel, traverse

Related terms

  • trespass

Translations

Noun

traipse (plural traipses)

  1. A long or tiring walk.
    It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.

Synonyms

  • (long or tiring walk): hike, trek

Translations

Anagrams

  • @ parties, Pirates, Prestia, airstep, eartips, parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, praties, rapiest, raspite, tapiser

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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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