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rudder-like

rudder-like

6.8
Shaped like a rudder, it helps steer in water
  • adjective
translation icon : similar a un timón
  • The boat was equipped with a rudder-like fin that helped it navigate smoothly through the water.

Examples

  • The new design featured a rudder-like tail that improved the plane's stability in flight.

  • When I raised my motor, I found 3 inches of metal had been clipped off the rudder-like skeg, without a scratch on the fragile prop.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Her painting had a rudder-like shape, directing the viewer's gaze toward the center of the canvas.

Surface Forms

rudder-like positive

Morphology

rudder-like = rudder (transparent) = rudder + like

Formed by adding the productive adjectival suffix '-like' to 'rudder', meaning 'resembling a rudder', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Rudder-like comes from rudder, the flat board at the back of a boat that helps to 'steer', and the ending -like, which means 'similar to'. So something described as rudder-like is 'shaped like a rudder' or 'acts to steer or guide'.