Skip to main content

full sail

满帆,全速航行,全速前进,全程航行

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : all the sails of a vessel: All three ships had full sail set.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with all sails set: The ship was moving ahead full sail.
    • : rapidly; forcefully: He proceeded full sail despite our objections.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

  • Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

  • So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.

  • Some refugees wait for days on the ships before setting sail.

  • It used to carry livestock but sailed its final voyage with a hold full of Syrian men, women, and children.

  • It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  • As long as may be necessary, Sam,” replied Mr. Pickwick, “you have my full permission to remain.

  • It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.