sailing
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1.5
- noun
- /ˈseɪlɪŋ/
:
marinería
- After years of hard work, she made her dream a reality by pursuing a career in sailing as a professional sailor.
- sailing ship
- sailing vessel
Examples
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Well, there are several recent examples of sailing ships going down in white squalls.
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In the 1870s, the steamers replaced the sailing ships for good.
Academic text (1993) -
I had to go across the sea in a sailing ship.
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Twelve weeks on a sailing ship.
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At last, we'll be back after 4 months of sailing.
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Seems to me the act of sailing makes one a sailor.
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As a matter of fact, I'm taking her sailing this afternoon.
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The men walked toward a small sailing ship docked at the wharf.
Fiction book (1992) -
A real eighteenth-century sailing ship, churning the rough water of the Atlantic.
Fiction book (1994) -
In our combined 22 weeks of sailing in the Pacific, we had to make many nail-biting choices concerning coastal navigation.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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4.8
The activity of traveling and working on the sea, often as a sailor
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
A large armed ship that uses sails and carries heavy guns before the mid 1800s
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sailing The word sailing comes from sail, the 'cloth' that moves a ship, and from the people who worked the sails, the sailors. So, sailing can mean the job or daily duties of those sailors.