cruise

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See also: Cruise and cruisé

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.

Alternative forms

Noun

cruise (plural cruises)

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  1. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
  2. (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
  3. (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.
  4. A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group. See Cruising (driving).
  5. (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
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Translations

Verb

cruise (third-person singular simple present cruises, present participle cruising, simple past and past participle cruised)

  1. (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, […].
  2. (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
  3. (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
  4. (transitive, intransitive, forestry) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
  5. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
  6. (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.
  7. (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
  8. (intransitive, sports) To win easily and convincingly.
    Germany cruised to a World Cup victory over the short-handed Australians.
  9. (intransitive) To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
  10. (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
Descendants
  • → Dutch: cruisen, cruise
  • → French: cruiser
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

cruise (plural cruises)

  1. 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.

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

cruise c or n (singular definite cruiset or cruisen, plural indefinite cruises)

  1. cruise (sea voyage)
    Synonyms: krydstogt, sørejse

Declension

Declension of cruise
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative cruise cruiset
cruisen 		cruises cruisene
genitive cruises cruisets
cruisens 		cruises' cruisenes

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cruise, from Dutch kruisen.

Pronunciation

Noun

cruise m (plural cruises, diminutive cruiseje n)

  1. cruise

Derived terms

French

Verb

cruise

  1. inflection of cruiser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise.

Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa or cruisene)

  1. a cruise

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise.

Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa)

  1. a cruise

Derived terms

References

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