catamaran
pronunciation
How to pronounce catamaran in British English:
UK [ˌkætəməˈræn]
How to pronounce catamaran in American English:
US [ˌkætəməˈræn]
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- Noun:
- a sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck
Word Origin
- catamaran
- catamaran: [17] Catamaran is a word borrowed from the Tamil language of the southeast coast of India. It is a compound meaning literally ‘tied wood’, made up of kattu ‘tie’ and maram ‘wood, tree’. It was first recorded in English in William Dampier’s Voyages 1697: ‘The smaller sort of Bark-logs are more governable than the others … This sort of Floats are used in many places both in the East and West Indies. On the Coast of Coromandel … they call them Catamarans’.
- catamaran (n.)
- East Indies log raft, 1670s, from Tamil kattu-maram "tied wood," from kattu "tie, binding" + maram "wood, tree."
Example
- 1. On a windy morning in february , widder and six colleagues climbed aboard a catamaran , its motors gurgling in the indian river lagoon .
- 2. Catamaran hulls are ' quite sharp , just like a knife , ' said lu xiangjun , who works for braemar , a marine-surveying and technical consultancy .
- 3. The thon hotel alesund is centrally located in aalesund , close to the coastal steamer quay , the catamaran quay and airport shuttle bus departure .
- 4. Voyaging catamaran tour at kualoa ranch .
- 5. Gliding through the water with a catamaran hull the robots will use a combination of feedback from their sensors and fuzzy logic algorithms to determine where to begin working on the oil .