sail : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sail	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for sail
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sail n a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel Synonym(s): sail, canvas, canvass, sheet an ocean trip taken for pleasure Synonym(s): cruise, sail any structure that resembles a sail v traverse or travel on (a body of water); "We sailed the Atlantic"; "He sailed the Pacific all alone" move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; "The diva swept into the room"; "Shreds of paper sailed through the air"; "The searchlights swept across the sky" Synonym(s): sweep, sail travel on water propelled by wind; "I love sailing, especially on the open sea"; "the ship sails on" travel on water propelled by wind or by other means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" Synonym(s): voyage, sail, navigate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sail \Sail\, v. t. 1. To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force. A thousand ships were manned to sail the sea. --Dryden. 2. To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through. Sublime she sails The a[89]rial space, and mounts the wing[8a]d gales. --Pope. 3. To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship. --Totten.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sail \Sail\, n. [OE. seil, AS. segel, segl; akin to D. zeil, OHG. segal, G. & Sw. segel, Icel. segl, Dan. seil. [root] 153.] 1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water. Behoves him now both sail and oar. --Milton. 2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail. 3. A wing; a van. [Poetic] Like an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails. --Spenser. 4. The extended surface of the arm of a windmill. 5. A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Note: In this sense, the plural has usually the same form as the singular; as, twenty sail were in sight. 6. A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water. Note: Sails are of two general kinds, {fore-and-aft sails}, and {square sails}. Square sails are always bent to yards, with their foot lying across the line of the vessel. Fore-and-aft sails are set upon stays or gaffs with their foot in line with the keel. A fore-and-aft sail is triangular, or quadrilateral with the after leech longer than the fore leech. Square sails are quadrilateral, but not necessarily square. See Phrases under {Fore}, a., and {Square}, a.; also, {Bark}, {Brig}, {Schooner}, {Ship}, {Stay}. {Sail burton} (Naut.), a purchase for hoisting sails aloft for bending. {Sail fluke} (Zo[94]l.), the whiff. {Sail hook}, a small hook used in making sails, to hold the seams square. {Sail loft}, a loft or room where sails are cut out and made. {Sail room} (Naut.), a room in a vessel where sails are stowed when not in use. {Sail yard} (Naut.), the yard or spar on which a sail is extended. {Shoulder-of-mutton sail} (Naut.), a triangular sail of peculiar form. It is chiefly used to set on a boat's mast. {To crowd sail}. (Naut.) See under {Crowd}. {To loose sails} (Naut.), to unfurl or spread sails. {To make sail} (Naut.), to extend an additional quantity of sail. {To set a sail} (Naut.), to extend or spread a sail to the wind. {To set sail} (Naut.), to unfurl or spread the sails; hence, to begin a voyage. {To shorten sail} (Naut.), to reduce the extent of sail, or take in a part. {To strike sail} (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension. {Under sail}, having the sails spread.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl. 3. To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton. 4. To set sail; to begin a voyage. 5. To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird. As is a winged messenger of heaven, . . . When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air. --Shak.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
SAIL /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ n. 1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. An important site in the early development of LISP; with the MIT AI Lab, BBN, CMU, XEROX PARC, and the Unix community, one of the major wellsprings of technical innovation and hacker-culture traditions (see the {{WAITS}} entry for details). The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990, scant weeks after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officially decommissioned. 2. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language used at SAIL (sense 1). It was an Algol-60 derivative with a coroutining facility and some new data types intended for building search trees and association lists.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SAIL 1. {Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory}. 2. {Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language}. 3. An early system on the {Larc} computer. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. [{Jargon File}] (2001-06-22)