sailing

sail (seɪl)
—n
1.	an area of fabric, usually Terylene or nylon (formerly canvas), with fittings for holding it in any suitable position to catch the wind, used for propelling certain kinds of vessels, esp over water
2.	a voyage on such a vessel: a sail down the river
3.	a vessel with sails or such vessels collectively: to travel by sail; we raised seven sail in the northeast
4.	a ship's sails collectively
5.	something resembling a sail in shape, position, or function, such as the part of a windmill that is turned by the wind or the part of a Portuguese man-of-war that projects above the water
6.	the conning tower of a submarine
7.	in sail having the sail set
8.	make sail
	a.  to run up the sail or to run up more sail
	b.  to begin a voyage
9.	set sail
	a.  to embark on a voyage by ship
	b.  to hoist sail
10.	under sail
	a.  with sail hoisted
	b.  under way
—vb (often foll by over, through, etc) (often foll by in or into)
11.	to travel in a boat or ship: we sailed to Le Havre
12.	to begin a voyage; set sail: we sail at 5 o'clock
13.	(of a vessel) to move over the water: the liner is sailing to the Caribbean
14.	(tr) to manoeuvre or navigate a vessel: he sailed the schooner up the channel
15.	(tr) to sail over: she sailed the Atlantic single-handed
16.	to move fast or effortlessly: we sailed through customs; the ball sailed over the fence
17.	to move along smoothly; glide
18.	informal
	a.  to begin (something) with vigour
	b.  to make an attack (on) violently with words or physical force
[Old English segl; related to Old Frisian seil, Old Norse segl, German Segel]
'sailable
—adj
'sailless
—adj

sail

verb is O.E. segilan, from the same Gmc. source (cf. O.N. sigla, M.L.G. segelen, Ger. segeln).

SAIL

/sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ n.
1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. An important site in the early development of LISP; with the MIT AI Lab, BBN, CMU, XEROX PARC, and the Unix community, one of the major wellsprings of technical innovation and hacker-culture traditions (see the WAITS entry for details). The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990, scant weeks after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officially decommissioned.
2. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language used at SAIL (sense 1). It was an Algol-60 derivative with a coroutining facility and some new data types intended for building search trees and association lists.

sailing

In summer 2007 the America's Cup completed its three-year course of almost continuous competition, with a spectacular final series between defending Alinghi of Switzerland and challenger Emirates Team New Zealand. The ACC boats-Alinghi and New Zealand, respectively-were equal in speed, and the crews were professional in their performance, after three years of full-time preoccupation with the quest for the Cup. After four races the two teams were tied at two races each before Alinghi went ahead four races to two. The seventh and final race saw the lead change numerous times, the last time at the finish line, and Alinghi won by a scant one-second margin as New Zealand completed a penalty just before finishing. It was an exciting encounter, displayed beautifully in 3-D animation online and by worldwide television, using racetrack software to provide an overhead view of the competition. Almost immediately, the Swiss team announced new conditions for the next challenge in 2009, some of which appeared to favour the defender. The potential challengers objected, and the American team Oracle filed an independent challenge to take place in 2008. The New York Trust Court would decide the case, determining what could be done under the terms of the Deed of Gift of the Cup

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