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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
 
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Etymology 1

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

Verb

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sailing

  1. present participle and gerund of sail

Adjective

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sailing (not comparable)

  1. Travelling by ship.
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Etymology 2

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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).

Noun

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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.
    • 1951 November, K. Westcott Jones, “Parkeston Quay and the Antwerp Continental Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
      New ships were built to the order of the Great Eastern Railway, and the service frequency increased, until March 1879, saw a sailing every weekday to Rotterdam, and a thrice-weekly service to Antwerp.
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