astern
UKæstən
معنی فارسی
درعقب کشتي
معنی کامل و مثالها
/ǝ stu_rn´/adv.
● (کشتی و هواپیما) در دنبال، در پس
a keg floated astern
بشکهای در پس کشتی شناور بود.
● aft
● بهسوی عقب، قهقرا، در جهت معکوس
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From the Old English word 'æfterne', meaning 'behind'.
مثال
- The captain ordered the ship to go astern.
- The boat slowly moved astern, away from the dock.
- The sailor fell overboard and was left astern.
ترکیبهای رایج
Go astern Move astern Put into reverse astern
تعریف انگلیسی
adverb
- stern foremost or backward “the steamer went astern at half speed”
- at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane “stow the luggage aft” “ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft” “the captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about”
- (of a ship or an airplane) behind “we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide”
مترادفها
adverb
(Nautical)
1. Behind, back.
2. Backward, rearward, abaft, aft.