Careen vs Veer - What's the difference?
careen | veer |
(nautical) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
(nautical) To tilt on one side.
To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
To tilt or lean while in motion.
To .
(obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 12:
*:As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.
To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
* (rfdate), Dryden:
* (rfdate), Burke:
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.}}
(of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).Bowditch 2002
(intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
(nautical) To change direction into the wind; to ship.
To turn.
As verbs the difference between careen and veer
is that careen is to heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line while veer is to let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.As a noun veer is
a turn or swerve; an instance of veering.careen
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(en verb)Derived terms
* careenageSynonyms
* heelAnagrams
* ----veer
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) virer.Verb
(en verb)- The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
- And as he leads, the following navy veers .
- An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
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