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sail

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Source Word

sail

IPA(Pronunciation)

/seɪl/

Noun

countable uncountable dated

(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.

Japanese Meaning

帆：風を受け、船を前進させるために船に取り付けられた布製の部品。マスト、スパー、ロープなどで固定される。

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We raised the sail at dawn and steered toward the open sea.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

私たちは夜明けに船に取り付けられ、風を受けて船を進める帆を上げ、外洋に向かって舵を取った。

Sense（1）

(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.

Sense（2）

(nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.

Take in sail: a storm is coming.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.

Sense（4）

A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.

Let's go for a sail.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（5）

(dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

Twenty sail were in sight.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（6）

(nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.

Sense（7）

The blade of a windmill.

Sense（8）

A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.

Sense（9）

The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.

Sense（10）

(fishing) A sailfish.

We caught three sails today.

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Sense（11）

(paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids

Sense（12）

Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.

Like an eagle […]soaring / / To weather his broad sails.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

sails

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