sailing

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ

From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).

sailing

1. present participle and gerund of sail

sailing (not comparable)

1. Travelling by ship.

• sailing boat
• sailing ship
• sailing dinghy
• sailing vessel

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”).

sailing (countable and uncountable, plural sailings)

1. Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
2. Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
3. the time of departure from a port
4. (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.

• clear sailing
• plain sailing

• “sailing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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