sailing
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).
Verb
sailing
- present participle and gerund of sail
Adjective
sailing (not comparable)
- Travelling by ship.
Derived terms
Translations
travelling by ship
Etymology 2
From Middle English sailyng, seyling, from Old English seġling, seġlung (“sailing”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglingu, *seglungu, from Proto-Germanic *siglingō (“sailing”); equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Middle Low German sēgelinge (“sailing”), Swedish segling (“sailing”), Icelandic sigling (“sailing”).
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.
- 1951 November, K. Westcott Jones, “Parkeston Quay and the Antwerp Continental Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
- New ships were built to the order of the Great Eastern Railway, and the service frequency increased, until March 1879, saw a sailing every weekday to Rotterdam, and a thrice-weekly service to Antwerp.
Derived terms
Translations
motion across water
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skill to operate a vessel
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References
- “sailing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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