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sterned

sterned

1 9.3
Having a particular shape at the rear of a boat or ship
  • adjective
  • Specialized
: de popa
  • The museum displayed a round-sterned boat from the 19th century.

Examples

  • Engineers designed a sharp-sterned vessel to improve speed on the open sea.

  • A flat-sterned barge is ideal for carrying heavy loads on calm rivers.

  • That boat is sterned.

  • Look at that sterned ship sailing by!

  • The yacht had a beautifully designed, sterned profile that impressed all the onlookers.

  • The old fishing boat was sterned, giving it a unique vintage appearance on the water.

  • His design for the new cruise ship featured a sleek, sterned aft that enhanced its aerodynamics.

Synonyms

boattail
vssterned
  • Specialized
1 7.1

With a rear that narrows like a boat to reduce air drag

refers to ship rear design rather than to aerodynamic drag reduction

Surface Forms

sterned positive

Morphology

sterned = stern (transparent) = stern + ed

Formed from the noun 'stern' with the adjectival/past-participle suffix '-ed' meaning 'having a stern', a regular and guessable pattern.

Etymology

The word sterned comes from stern, which means the 'back' of a ship, and you can see the same root in astern ('toward the back'). So a 'round-sterned' or 'flat-sterned' boat simply describes the shape of its back, which is why we use sterned to talk about a ship's rear design.