transcription, транскрипция: [ seɪl ]
( sails, sailing, sailed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Sails are large pieces of material attached to the mast of a ship. The wind blows against the sails and pushes the ship along.
The white sails billow with the breezes they catch.
N-COUNT
2.
You say a ship sails when it moves over the sea.
The trawler had sailed from the port of Zeebrugge...
VERB : V prep / adv
3.
If you sail a boat or if a boat sails , it moves across water using its sails.
I shall get myself a little boat and sail her around the world...
For nearly two hundred miles she sailed on, her sails hard with ice...
VERB : V n prep , V adv / prep
4.
If a person or thing sails somewhere, they move there smoothly and fairly quickly.
We got into the lift and sailed to the top floor...
VERB : V prep / adv
5.
see also sailing
6.
When a ship sets sail , it leaves a port.
Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World in the Santa Maria.
PHRASE : V inflects , oft PHR prep
7.
to sail close to the wind: see wind