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Sail is a piece of fabric used to catch the wind and propel a boat, kite, hang glider, land sailing devices, snow or ice sailig devices, windsurfing devices, sailed windmills. Sail or SAIL may also refer to:Derived from the traditional meaning of Sail:
*Windmill sail the device that provides power to a windmill
*Sail (submarine) , the tower-like structure on the topside of submarines.
* (Palaeozoology ) A structure consisting of an elongation of the dorsalvertebrae joined by skin to give a sail-like appearance, as exemplified by several of thePelycosauria (i.e. "Dimetrodon ") and some of theDinosauria (several of theSpinosauridae , "Ouranosaurus ", possibly "Rebbachisaurus ")Sailing Events:
*SAIL Amsterdam , a tallship event held every five years in the Netherlands
*Sail Bremerhaven , also a big maritime eventAcronyms:
*Steel Authority of India Limited , India's largest steel maker
*Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
**SAIL programming language , created at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
*Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory Places:
*Sail, Pekanbaru , a subdistrict of Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia
*SAIL High School , a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida
*Sail (Lake District) , a hill in the English Lake DistrictOther:
*Sail (letter) , a letter of the Ogham alphabet
* "Sail" (novel), a 2008 mystery novel by James Patterson
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