English Online Dictionary. What means sailing? What does sailing mean?
- IPA(key): /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).
sailing
- present participle and gerund of sail
sailing (not comparable)
- Travelling by ship.
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)
- Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
- Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
- the time of departure from a port
- (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
- clear sailing
- plain sailing
- Thames sailing barge
- “sailing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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