| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Capsize.[Websters]
2. To be bonneted or gloved. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have subverted or modified. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have tossed, returned, unseated, overturned or revolved. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have sloped or tilted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have dumped or teemed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have administered, distributed or added. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have switched or rolled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have shipwrecked or wrecked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have shuffled, reversed, reorganised or diverted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb capsize.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (capsize) | 1. Overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!".[Wordnet]. 2. To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: capsizing, capsized, capsizes, capsizer, capsizers, capsizingly and capsizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being reverse.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CAPSIZED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1715. (references) |
Specialty Definition: capsize
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Food & Agriculture | It is caused by the elevation of the center of gravity above the metacenter, thus creating an unstable equilibrium so that the vessel will be lost. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Health | Overturning of a vessel. The bottom must be uppermost, except on the case of a sailboat, which lies on its side. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | CAPSIZE. To overturn or reverse. He took his broth till he capsized; he drank till he fell out of his chair. SEA TERM. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Transportation | A keelboat is said to have capsized when she turns keel upmost, but a capsized dinghy may be either floating with her mast and sail lying on the water, or she may have turned turtle lying with mast pointing downwards. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Capsizing refers to when a boat is inverted such that the bottom of the boat is on top. The term is also used to describe a boat that has broached, pitch poled, rolled, or sunk. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
