Of a navigator: To guide a vessel in a certain direction; to sail or row towards a specified place.
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| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction (70) steer1340 Of a navigator: To guide a vessel in a certain direction; to sail or row towards a specified place. stem1487 intransitive. Of a vessel or a navigator: To head in a certain direction, keep a certain course. capea1522 intransitive. To head, keep a course, bear up; to drift. Said of sailors and of ship. lie1574 Nautical. To steer in a (specified) direction. Also (quasi-transitive) to lie the course: (of a ship) to have her head in the direction wished. to… put1578 intransitive. Of a vessel or its occupants: to follow a course, proceed to go to sea, ashore, etc. bear1587 With adverb or prepositional phrase as complement. intransitive. Nautical. To sail in a specified direction. Cf. to bear away 3 at phrasal verbs 1 to… rut1588 intransitive. To hold a course. haul1589 Nautical (intransitive) To trim the sails, etc. of a ship so as to sail nearer to the wind (also to haul up); hence more generally, to change or… fetch1590 Nautical (see also branch II). intransitive. To take a course; to reach a specified position, bring one's vessel up. standa1594 intransitive. Nautical. With adverb or prepositional phrase as complement. Of a vessel, hence also of its commander, crew, etc.: to sail, steer… to stand along1600 intransitive. To direct one's course (easily) in a given direction. Cf. main sense 41b. to bear away1614 intransitive. Nautical. With for, toward, etc.: to sail away (usually before the wind) in the direction of a specified place; (without… work1621 intransitive. Nautical. Of a sailing vessel: to sail in a particular course or direction, to make sail; esp. to sail against the wind, to tack… to lay up1832 Nautical (intransitive) To direct the course. Subcategories:— continuously (2) — obliquely (1) — continue on course (2) — keep directly on course (1) — make desired course (2) — drop away from direct course (5) — go astern (4) — go in same direction as another ship (1) — separate or part company (2) — shoot ahead (1) — fall behind (3) — sail away from shore or ships (6) — leave one shore and sail towards another (1) — come into or towards open sea (3) — sail along or near coast (4) — sail towards shore (4) — approach land or wind (1) — sail up and down (4) — sail towards or away from shore alternately (3) — sail to the north (1) — reverse one's course (1) — remain (stationary) away from shore or ship (2) — come to a standstill (2) |
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