careen-катания: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is careen? careen is катания

What is катания?

  • To lurch or swerve while in motion.

    Качаться или отклоняться во время движения.

  • To rush headlong or carelessly; career: "He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz” ( Anne Tyler).
  • Nautical To lean to one side, as a ship sailing in the wind.
  • Nautical To turn a ship on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.
  • Nautical To cause (a ship) to lean to one side; tilt.
  • To lean (a ship) on one side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.
  • To clean, caulk, or repair (a ship in this position).
  • Nautical The act or process of careening a ship.
  • Nautical The position of a careened ship.

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