Sail vs Aboard - What's the difference?
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(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.
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(uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use this power for travel or transport.
A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.
(dated) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft. Plural sail .
The blade of a windmill.
A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.
The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
(fishing) A sailfish.
(paleontology) an outward projection of the
Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.
* Spenser
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.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.
To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
To move briskly and gracefully through the air.
* Shakespeare
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To move briskly.
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
(baseball) On base.
Into a team, group, or company.
(nautical) Alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
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Onto a horse.
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
* 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat
In nautical terms the difference between sail and aboard
is that sail is 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 while aboard is alongside.As a noun sail
is 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.As a verb sail
is 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.As an adverb aboard is
on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.As a preposition aboard is
on board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.sail
English
(wikipedia sail)Etymology 1
From (etyl) 'to cut'. More at saw.Noun
(en noun)- When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive / And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;
- Let's go for a sail .
- Twenty sail were in sight.
- We caught three sails today.
- Like an eagle soaring / To weather his broad sails .
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* balloon sail * by sail * drag sail * dragon sail * point of sail * sailback * sailboard * sailboat * sailcloth * sailer * sailfish * sailing * studding sail * set sail * take the wind out of someone's sails * topsail * working sailEtymology 2
(etyl) , cognate to earlier Middle Low German segelen and its descendant Low German sailen.Verb
(en verb)- We sail for Australia tomorrow.
- As is a winged messenger of heaven, / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.
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Derived terms
* sail close to the windaboard
English
Adverb
(-)- We all climbed aboard .
- To sling a saddle aboard .
- He doubled with two men aboard , scoring them both.
- The office manager welcomed him aboard .
- The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
- to fall aboard of. (also figuratively)
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We all went aboard the ship.
- Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. -