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cruise

(kro͞oz)

v. cruised, cruis·ing, cruis·es

v.intr.

a. To sail from place to place, as for pleasure or reconnaissance.

b. To go or move along, especially in an unhurried or unconcerned fashion: "A car, a long closed car that maybe was a Packard, came slowly down the street, and ... cruised close to the curb" (Carson McCullers).

2. To travel at a constant speed or at a speed providing maximum operating efficiency for a sustained period.

a. Informal To move leisurely about an area in the hope of discovering something: taxis cruising for fares.

b. Slang To look for a sexual partner, as in a public place.

4. To move by taking steps while holding on to nearby objects for support. Used of a baby.

5. To inspect a wooded area to determine its lumber yield.

v.tr.

1. To travel about or journey over.

2. Slang

a. To look in (a public area) for a sexual partner.

b. To seek out and make a sexual overture to.

3. To inspect in order to determine lumber yield.

The act or an instance of cruising, especially a sea voyage for pleasure.

[Dutch kruisen, to cross, from kruis, cross, from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux, cruc-, cross.]

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Translations

cruising

n → Kreuzfahrten pl; to go cruising → eine Kreuzfahrt/Kreuzfahrten machen

cruising

cruising altitude

n → Reiseflughöhe f

cruising speed

n → Reisegeschwindigkeit f

cruising yacht

n → Vergnügungsjacht f

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Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the Line, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific--the sky above, the sea around, and nothing else!

Such were the strangely jumbled anticipations that haunted me during our passage from the cruising ground.

In the watery path of Mendanna, cruising in quest of some region of gold, these isles had sprung up like a scene of enchantment, and for a moment the Spaniard believed his bright dream was realized.

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His recent disastrous success had convinced him that neither Ithaca nor any other abode of civilization was a safe place to continue his experiments, but it was not until their cruising had brought them among the multitudinous islands of the East Indies that the plan occurred to him that he finally adopted--a plan the outcome of which could he then have foreseen would have sent him scurrying to the safety of his own country with the daughter who was to bear the full brunt of the horrors it entailed.

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As I have said, I know nothing of racing and but little of fore-and-aft rig; but the advantages of such a rig are obvious, especially for purposes of pleasure, whether in cruising or racing.

For racing, a cutter; for a long pleasure voyage, a schooner; for cruising in home waters, the yawl; and the handling of them all is indeed a fine art.

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Charley was off in his battleship, cruising somewhere on the Caribbean sea.

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With a fair, fresh wind, the Pequod was now drawing nigh to these straits; Ahab purposing to pass through them into the Javan sea, and thence, cruising northwards, over waters known to be frequented here and there by the Sperm whale, sweep inshore by the Philippine Islands, and gain the far coast of Japan, in time for the great whaling season there.

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"Let us waive the point." (Sir Joseph invariably used this formula as a means of at once conciliating his sister, and getting a fresh start for his story.) "I was cruising off the Mersey in a Liverpool pilot-boat.

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In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel's leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.

Why, thou monkey, said a harpooneer to one of these lads, we've been cruising now hard upon three years, and thou hast not raised a whale yet.

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