Meaning

7 senses
  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.

    travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

  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.

    segeln

    плыть под паруса́миplytʹ pod parusámi, плытьplytʹ

  4. (intransitive)To set sail; to begin a voyage.

    We sail for Australia tomorrow.

  5. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.

    segeln, gleiten

  6. (intransitive)To move briskly but sedately.

    The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.

    segeln, schweben

  7. (transitive)To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.

Examples

450 sentences
  1. Sailing is fun.

    Ходити під парусами весело. — deniko

    deSegeln macht Spaß. — Melang

  2. Bad weather prevented them from sailing.

    deSchlechtes Wetter hielt sie vom Segeln ab. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. The ship sailed around the cape.

    deDas Schiff umsegelte das Kap. — Tamy

  4. I belong to the sailing club.

    ruЯ принадлежу к яхт-клубу. — Lenin_1917

    deIch gehöre zum Segelklub. — Alois

  5. All the sails were taken down.

    ruВсе паруса были убраны. — soweli_Elepanto

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to ride in a boat, especially sailboat:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to ride in a boat, especially sailboat:
to move briskly and gracefully through the air:
to move briskly but sedately:

Origin

From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan (“to

From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijaną. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Danish sejle, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.

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Forms

sails, sailing, sailed, sailed
Base formsail · to sail
3rd person singularsails
Present participlesailing
Past simplesailed
Past participlesailed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysail
he, she, itsails

Past simpleLesson

all personssailed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sailed
he, she, ithas sailed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sail

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • travel on water propelled by wind or by other means:voyagenavigate
  • move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions:sweep

Word family

19 related words

Collocations

9 patterns
  • go sailing
  • go sailing with
  • to go sailing
  • gone gone sailing
  • went sailing together
  • how to sail
  • sailing together
  • gone sailing
  • like sailing

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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