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WEAR ROUND

Pronunciation (US):

• WEAR ROUND (verb)
The verb WEAR ROUND has 1 sense:

1. turn into the wind

Familiarity information: WEAR ROUND used as a verb is very rare.

• WEAR ROUND (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Turn into the wind

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

wear round; tack

Context examples:

The sailors decided to tack the boat / The boat tacked

Hypernyms (to "wear round" is one way to...):

sail (travel in a boat propelled by wind)

Domain category:

navigation; pilotage; piloting (the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place)

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

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(English proverb)
"Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it."
(Native American proverb, Crow)
"If the village stands, it can break a trunk."
(Armenian proverb)
"He who goes slowly, goes surely; and he who goes surely, goes far."
(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
Meaning of pilotage
Pronunciation of boat
Meaning of navigation
Pronunciation of sail
Meaning of piloting

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