sailing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseɪlɪŋ/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Etymology 1
From Middle English sailyng, seyling, equivalent to sail + -ing.
Noun
sailing (countable and uncountable, plural sailings)
- Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
- Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
- the time of departure from a port
- (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
Derived terms
Translations
motion across water
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skill to operate a vessel
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scheduled voyage
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Etymology 2
From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende, equivalent to sail + -ing.
Adjective
sailing (not comparable)
- Travelling by ship
Translations
Verb
sailing
- present participle of sail
References
- “sailing” (US) / “sailing” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
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