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Cruise Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to sail about on a pleasure trip. |
| 2. | to sail about, as a warship patrolling a body of water. |
| 3. | to travel about without a particular purpose or destination. |
| 4. | to fly, drive, or sail at a constant speed that permits maximum operating efficiency for sustained travel. |
| 5. | to travel at a moderately fast, easily controllable speed: cruising along the highway enjoying the scenery. |
| 6. | t
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o travel about slowly, looking for customers or for something demanding attention: Taxis and police cars cruise in the downtown area. |
| 7. | to go or travel (often fol. by over): Let's cruise over to my house after the concert. |
| 8. | Informal. to go about on the streets or in public areas in search of a sexual partner. |
–verb (used with ob
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ject) | 9. | to cruise in (a specified area): patrol cars cruising the neighborhood; to cruise the Caribbean. |
| 10. | Informal. | a. | to move slowly through or visit (a street, park, bar, etc.) in search of a sexual partner. |
| b. | to make sexual overtures to; attempt to arouse the sexual interest of. |
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| 11. | to inspect (a tract of forest) for the purpose of estimating lumber potential. |
–noun | 12. | the act of cruising. | |
| 13. | a pleasure voyage on a ship, usually with stops at various ports. |
| From Dictionary The Definition–definite article | 1. | (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house. |
| 2. | (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West. |
| 3. | (used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith. |
| 4. | (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time. |
| 5. | (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped. |
| 6. | (used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends. |
| 7. | (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract i
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| 8. | (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way. |
| 9. | (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties. |
| 10. | (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night? |
| 11. | enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave. |
| 12. | (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound. |
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From Dictionary Bahamas Definition–noun (used with a plural verb ) | 1. | a group of islands in the W Atlantic Ocean, SE of Florida. |
| 2. | an independent country comprising this group: formerly a British colony; gained independence 1973. 262,034; 4404 sq. mi. (11,406 sq. km). Capital: Nassau. |
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