cruise
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.
Alternative forms edit
- cruize (obsolete)
Noun edit
cruise (plural cruises)
- A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- 1936, Edwin A. Falk, Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power[1], Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 229[2]:
- He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province.
- (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
- (US, military, informal) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
- 1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin, page 16:
- I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]
- 2015, George Barnett, Andy Barnett, George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923:
- The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise.
- A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group. See Cruising (driving).
- (bodybuilding, slang) A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).
- Coordinate term: blast
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
sea voyage
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Verb edit
cruise (third-person singular simple present cruises, present participle cruising, simple past and past participle cruised)
- (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].
- (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
- (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
- (transitive, intransitive, forestry) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
- (transitive, colloquial) To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on
- 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- Lot of not too bad looking boys there but when M came in I knew right then: him. Very thin & feminine, brown hair fluffed around his sharp featured face. So I began cruising him.
- 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 144:
- We see him [Joseph Huff-Hannon] approach several sets of men to ak if they have "a minute to talk about climate change"; they dismiss him out of hand, clearly more interesting in playing volleyball and cruising—including cruising Huff-Hannon himself—than in listening to bad news.
- 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
- (intransitive, sports) To win easily and convincingly.
- Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
- (intransitive) To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
- (bodybuilding, slang) To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast).
- Coordinate term: blast
- blast and cruise
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
to sail about
to travel at constant speed
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to move leisurely
to seek a sexual partner
child development: to walk while holding on to an object
sports: to win easily and convincingly
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
cruise (plural cruises)
- A small cup; cruse.
- King James translators, 1 Kings 17:12
- And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
- King James translators, 1 Kings 17:12
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Noun edit
cruise c or n (singular definite cruiset or cruisen, plural indefinite cruises)
Declension edit
Declension of cruise
Further reading edit
- “cruise” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English cruise, from Dutch kruisen.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cruise m (plural cruises, diminutive cruiseje n)
Derived terms edit
French edit
Verb edit
cruise
- inflection of cruiser:
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise.
Noun edit
cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa or cruisene)
- a cruise
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “cruise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise.
Noun edit
cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa)
- a cruise
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “cruise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.