sails

Meaning of sails

noun
  1. 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.
  2. (nautical,uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.
    Take in sail: a storm is coming.
  3. The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.
  4. A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
    Let's go for a sail.
  5. (plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
    Twenty sail were in sight.
  6. The blade of a windmill.
  7. A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
  8. The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
  9. A sailfish.
    We caught three sails today.
  10. An outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids
  11. Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
verb
  1. To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.
  2. To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
  3. To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
  4. To set sail; to begin a voyage.
    We sail for Australia tomorrow.
  5. To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
  6. To move briskly.
    The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.

Information about sails

  • The singular form of sails is: sail.
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Hyphenation of sails

sails

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • sails is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of sails

lassi, Lissa, sials, Silas, silas, sisal

Words that rhyme with sails

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