A sail is any type of surface intended to move a vessel, vehicle or rotor by being placed in a wind.

Sail or SAIL may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • "A Sail", a poem by Mikhail Lermontov
  • Sail (novel), a 2008 mystery novel by James Patterson
  • Sails (album), an album by Chet Atkins
  • "Sails" (song), a 2019 song by Mot & Zivert
  • "Sails", a 1969 song by Elton John from the album Empty Sky
  • "Sail" (song), a 2011 song by Awolnation
  • Sails Tails, an animated character from the television series Sonic Prime
  • SAIL, Steel Authority of India Limited, a PSU in India involved in Iron and Steel Making.

Device

  • Windmill sail, the wind-catching panel or cloth section that provides power to a windmill
  • Sail (submarine), the tower-like structure on the topside of submarines

Language

  • Sail (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language determinative
  • Sail (letter), a letter of the Ogham alphabet

Places

  • Sail, an administrative district of Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia
  • SAIL High School, a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida
  • Sail (Lake District), a hill in the English Lake District

Science and technology

  • Sail (anatomy), a fin-like extension from the back of some animals
  • SAIL (cable system) (South Atlantic Inter Link), a submarine cable connecting Cameroon to Brazil
  • Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, a facility at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, US

Computing

  • Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  • SAIL (programming language), created at the laboratory
  • Storage and Inference Layer, a RDF4J database implementation, home to RDF repositories
  • Sails.js, a web framework for the Node.js runtime environment

Other uses

  • Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), a steel maker in India
  • Chevrolet Sail, a hatchback car
  • SAIL Amsterdam, a maritime event

See also

  • Sale (disambiguation)
  • Solar sail