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SAILING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The departure of a vessel from a port
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sailing" is a kind of...):
departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The activity of flying a glider
Synonyms:
glide; gliding; sailing; sailplaning; soaring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sailing" is a kind of...):
flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sailing"):
hang gliding (gliding in a hang glider)
paragliding; parasailing (gliding in a parasail)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Riding in a sailboat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sailing" is a kind of...):
seafaring; water travel (travel by water)
Domain member category:
spill (reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sailing"):
luff (the act of sailing close to the wind)
beat (the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing)
tack (sailing a zigzag course)
Derivation:
sail (travel on water propelled by wind)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The work of a sailor
Synonyms:
navigation; sailing; seafaring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sailing" is a kind of...):
employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)
Meronyms (parts of "sailing"):
steerage; steering (the act of steering a ship)
Domain member category:
stay ((nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar)
spun yarn ((nautical) small stuff consisting of a lightweight rope made of several rope yarns loosely wound together)
sternpost ((nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel)
fireroom; stokehold; stokehole ((nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired)
towing line; towing rope; towline; towrope ((nautical) a rope used in towing)
capsizing ((nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water)
beam-ends ((nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel)
bell; ship's bell ((nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.)
steerageway ((nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered)
stand out (steer away from shore, of ships)
starboard (turn to the right, of helms or rudders)
close-hauled (having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible)
fore (situated at or toward the bow of a vessel)
atrip; aweigh ((of an anchor) just clear of the bottom)
rigged (fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc))
unrigged (stripped of rigging)
fore-and-aft (parallel with the keel of a boat or ship)
close to the wind (nearly opposite to the direction from which wind is coming)
leg ((nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack)
tack; tacking ((nautical) the act of changing tack)
accommodation ladder ((nautical) a portable ladder hung over the side of a vessel to give access to small boats alongside)
becket ((nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship)
bilge well ((nautical) a well where seepage drains to be pumped away)
bitter end ((nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt)
chip (a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line)
deadeye ((nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud)
escutcheon ((nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed)
jack ladder; Jacob's ladder; pilot ladder ((nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps)
laniard; lanyard ((nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships)
lead line; sounding line ((nautical) plumb line for determining depth)
luff ((nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast)
overhead ((nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship)
ratlin; ratline ((nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft)
rudder ((nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel)
sea ladder; sea steps ((nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard)
mainsheet; sheet; shroud; tack; weather sheet ((nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sailing"):
cabotage (navigation in coastal waters)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sail
Context examples:
There is a strict alliance between the Japanese emperor and the king of Luggnagg; which affords frequent opportunities of sailing from one island to the other.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
These animals must have been hunted by sailing northwest up the Greenland coast, and more recent specimens were smaller and often female.
(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)
“As soon as you come sailing back in it,” said he, “you shall have my daughter for wife.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
No stream could be more convenient for navigation, since the prevailing wind is south-east, and sailing boats may make a continuous progress to the Peruvian frontier, dropping down again with the current.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
From the windows of our little whitewashed house, which stood high upon a grassy headland, we looked down upon the whole sinister semi-circle of Mounts Bay, that old death trap of sailing vessels, with its fringe of black cliffs and surge-swept reefs on which innumerable seamen have met their end.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mon Dieu! yes, ye would not credit it to look at him, or to hearken to his soft voice, but from the sailing from Orwell down to the foray to Paris, and that is clear twenty years, there was not a skirmish, onfall, sally, bushment, escalado or battle, but Sir Nigel was in the heart of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But he was now learning from Spencer that he never had known, and that he never could have known had he continued his sailing and wandering forever.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This land that we have sighted is the place we have been sailing for.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“But it will serve only when we are sailing by the wind,” I explained.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
