'Sailing' definitions:
Definition of 'sailing'
From: WordNet
noun
The work of a sailor [syn: seafaring, navigation, sailing]
noun
Riding in a sailboat
noun
The departure of a vessel from a port
noun
Definition of 'Sailing'
From: GCIDE
- Sail \Sail\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sailing.] [AS. segelian, seglian. See Sail, n.]
- 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 the action of steam or other power. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To set sail; to begin a voyage. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird. [1913 Webster]
- As is a winged messenger of heaven, . . . When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sailing'
From: GCIDE
- Sailing \Sail"ing\, n.
- 1. The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing. [1913 Webster]
- Note: For the several methods of sailing, see under Circular, Globular, Oblique, Parallel, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Sailing master (U. S. Navy), formerly, a warrant officer, ranking next below a lieutenant, whose duties were to navigate the vessel; and under the direction of the executive officer, to attend to the stowage of the hold, to the cables, rigging, etc. The grade was merged in that of master in 1862. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sailing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aeronautics,
- air service,
- airline,
- astronautics,
- aviation,
- ballooning,
- blind flying,
- boating,
- canoeing,
- circumnavigation,
- cloud-seeding,
- coasting,
- commercial aviation,
- contact flying,
- cruising,
- flight,
- flow,
- flowing,
- flying,
- general aviation,
- glide,
- gliding,
- gunkholing,
- motorboating,
- navigability,
- navigating,
- navigation,
- passage-making,
- periplus,
- pilotage,
- rowing,
- sailplaning,
- sculling,
- sea travel,
- seafaring,
- skating,
- skiing,
- skim,
- sledding,
- slide,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slither,
- slithering,
- soaring,
- steaming,
- sweep,
- sweeping,
- tobogganing,
- travel by water,
- voyaging,
- water travel,
- winging,
- yachting
Words containing 'Sailing'
- Sail,
- Sailed,
- Under sail,
- sail for,
- sail into,
- sail through,
- Circular sailing,
- Composite sailing,
- Depth of a sail,
- Drag sail,
- Drift sail,
- Globular sailing,
- Hand sail,
- Lifting sail,
- Light sails,
- Parallel sailing,
- Plane sailing,
- Press of sail,
- Right sailing,
- Sail burton,
- Sail coat,
- Sail fluke,
- Sail hook,
- Sail loft,
- Sail room,
- Sail yard,
- Sailing master,
- Smoke sail,
- Square sail,
- Storm sail,
- Strange sail,
- Studding sail,
- To back the sails,
- To bring a sail to,
- To crowd sail,
- To flatten a sail,
- To heave out a sail,
- To loose sails,
- To make sail,
- To point a sail,
- To sail fine,
- To sail free,
- To sail large,
- To sail on a rhumb,
- To set a sail,
- To set sail,
- To shake the sails,
- To shorten sail,
- To strike sail,
- To touch a sail,
- Traverse sailing,
- Trim of sails,
- Water sail,
- Wind sail,
- balloon sail,
- clear sailing,
- drop of a sail,
- lateen sail,
- plain sailing,
- sailing boat,
- sailing ship,
- sailing vessel,
- sailing warship,
- set sail,
- smooth sailing,
- square sails,
- topgallant sail,
- Full-sailed,
- Great circle sailing,
- Weather of a windmill sail,
- sailing-race,
- Shoulder-of-mutton sail,
- To haul home the sheets of a sail,
- To take the wind out of one's sails,
- fore-and-aft sail,
- fore-and-aft sails,
- gaff-headed sail