sailing
Americannoun
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the activity of a person or thing that sails.
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the departure of a ship from port.
The cruise line offers sailings every other day.
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Navigation. any of various methods for determining courses and distances by means of charts or with reference to longitudes and latitudes, rhumb lines, great circles, etc.
noun
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the practice, art, or technique of sailing a vessel
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a method of navigating a vessel
rhumb-line sailing
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an instance of a vessel's leaving a port
scheduled for a midnight sailing
Other Word Forms
- well-sailing adjective
Etymology
Origin of sailing
before 900; Middle English seiling, Old English seglung. See sail, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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Adam Waugh, from Angerton in Northumberland, had limited sailing experience before signing up for the inaugural Mini Globe Race.
From BBC
But brokers say the limited transits for now represent a testing of the waters rather than a return to sailings.
No one would ever be able to go sailing or swimming again.
From MarketWatch
Gas sailing from Alaska to Tokyo, Seoul and other Asian ports travels across the open ocean without passing through Hormuz, the South China Sea or the Panama Canal.
Mr. Deakins’s most personal writing comes early in his book, describing his youthful exploits documenting wars in Zimbabwe and Eritrea, as well as a hair-raising experience filming a sailing trip around the globe.
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