Careen

Definition: Careen

Careen

Noun

1. Pitching dangerously to one side.

Verb

1. Walk as if unable to control one's movements.

2. Move sideways or in an unsteady way, as of a ship or a vehicle out of control.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Careen" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a man".

Date "careen" was first used: 1591. (references)

Food & Agriculture

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Synonyms: Careen

Restoration

Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Crosswords: Careen

Books

• Careen (Portway Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "careen": on the careen. Additional references.

Albanian

pjerrje (bevel, bias, inclination, list, obliquity, tilt), kthej në brinjë, eci me zhdërvjelltësi, anoj (bank, incline, lean, slope, solder, tilt), anohem (lean, slant), anim (bank, heel, lean, list, slant, tilt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

килване (list), килвам се (tilt), накланяне (lurch). (various references)

Danish

kølhale. (various references)

Dutch

krengen (to careen). (various references)

Farsi 

کج شدن (Heel, Lean, Lurch, Swerve, Tilt). (various references)

Finnish

kallistaa [VE1]. (various references)

French

caréner (to careen), abattre en carène. (various references)

German

kielholen (keelhaul). (various references)

Greek 

κλίση (acclivity, aptitude, bend, bent, bias, cant, conjugation, flair, flexion, gradient, inclination, inflection, inflexion, leaning, list, penchant, pitch, proclivity, propensity, slant, slope, tendency, tilt, tipping), κλίνω (cant, conjugate, decline, hang up, heel, incline, inflect, lean, list, shelve, slant, slope, tend, tilt, tip, trend, verge), κατακλίνω πλοίο, καθαρίζω γάστρα, γέρνω (bend, cant, dip, lean, sag, slant, slope, tilt), πλαγιάζω πλοίο, τροπίζω. (various references)

Hungarian

megdöntés (overthrow, pulling down), hajót megdönt (to careen). (various references)

Indonesian

miring (askew, aslant, awry, bias, cant, crazy, oblique, slanting, sloping, wry). (various references)

Italian

carenare (heave down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

傾ぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かたぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane), かしぐ (to be disposed to, to be prone to, to careen, to decline, to go down, to heed over, to incline, to incline toward, to lean, to list, to lurch, to sink, to slant, to tilt, to tip, to trend toward, to wane). (various references)

Manx

lhie er lhiattee, glenney thoyn baatey, cur baatey er lhiattee. (various references)

Pig Latin

areencay.(various references)

Portuguese

carenar, carenagem (careening, downstream pier nosing, ease-water, fairing), querenar. (various references)

Romanian

carenã (bottom, Hull, keel), înclina în carenã. (various references)

Russian 

кренговать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaneti se (carry away), nagnuti brod, izvlačenje čamca na obalu. (various references)

Spanish

carenar (refit). (various references)

Swedish

kränga (heel, lurch, toss). (various references)

Turkish

yan yatmak (rake), yan yatırmak (cant), sendelemek (blunder, dodder, falter, halt, lurch, pitch, reel, stagger, stumble, swing, teeter, topple, totter, waver, wobble), sarsılmak (be cut up, be shaken, be shattered, jar, jerk, jolt, judder, quake, rock, shake, shock, sway), karina etmek (keel over). (various references)

Ukrainian

хилитися (slope), кілювати, кілювання (careenage), кренгувати, кренгування (careenage), кренитися (heel over, list, lurch), крен (bank, banking, heeling, lurch), підводна частина судна. (various references)

carina. (various references)

carene. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "careen": careened, careener, careeners, careening, careens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Careen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acerenza, Afreen, Caerau, caern, Caerwyn, cafen, cagen, cagree, calen, Capreee, caprian, carden, caree, careem, careend, careion, caren, Carent, careon, Caretena, carian, carien, carine, Carleen, carpen, Carpene, carrea, carreau, carree, carrem, Carreno, Carriden, Carroun, carten, cartene, Carwen, Caryn, Catreeona, ceren, cerene, charoen, Cirene, cirmen, Claerwen, Clariden, corean, correan, creen, Cuerden, Cuneen, hareen, Kareene, Karunen, sareen, shagreen, shareen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: recane.

-1 letter: caner, crane, nacre, rance, ranee.

-2 letters: acne, acre, cane, care, carn, cere, earn, erne, narc, near, race.

-3 letters: ace, ane, arc, are, can, car, cee, ear, era, ere, ern, nae, nee, ran, rec, ree.

-4 letters: ae, an, ar, en, er, na, ne, re.

+1 letter: careens, caserne, centare, cleaner, corneae, crenate, menacer, recaned, recanes, reclean, reenact.

+2 letters: ascender, cabernet, calender, canceler, caneware, cankered, cantered, carageen, careened, careener, carotene, casernes, caverned, centares, centiare, cerulean, cesarean, clarence, cleaners, cleanser, cravened, creatine, credenda, credenza, crenated, decanter, decenary, enchaser, enhancer, entrance, increase, increate, iterance, larcener, menacers, menarche, narceine, neckwear, parcener, preclean, preenact, reaccent, reascend, reascent, recanted, recanter, rechange, recleans, recreant, reenacts, reliance, revanche, sarcenet, uncreate, vernacle.