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ship (s̸hip)

noun

  1. any water vehicle of considerable size navigating deep water, esp. one powered by an engine
  2. a water vehicle for sailing, with a bowsprit and at least three square-rigged masts, each composed of lower, top, and topgallant members
  3. a ship's officers and crew
  4. an aircraft

Etymology: ME < OE scip, akin to Ger schiff, ON skip < IE *skeib- < *skei-, to cut, separate (> L scindere, to cut), extension of base *sek-, to cut (> saw): basic sense “hollowed-out tree trunk”

transitive verb shipped, shipping ship′·ping

  1. to put or take on board a ship
  2. ☆ to send or transport by any carrier to ship cattle by rail
  3. to take in (water) over the gunwale or side, as in a heavy sea
  4. to put or fix (an object) in its proper place on a ship or boat ship the oars
  5. to engage (a person or persons) for work on a ship
  6. Informal to send (away, out, etc.); get rid of

intransitive verb

  1. to go aboard ship; embark
  2. to engage to serve on a ship
  3. to travel by ship
ship Idioms

ship over

to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy

ship out

  1. to go to sea: said of a sailor or traveler
  2. to send by ship
  3. to leave, esp. because of not doing as well as expected: in shape up or ship out

the Ship

the constellation Argo

when (or if, etc.) one's ship comes in (or home)

when (or if, etc.) one becomes rich

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ship Synonyms

ship

n.

boat, vessel, craft. see also boat.

Types of ships include: dahabeah, junk, galleon, sampan, xebec, lugger, steamer, steamship, container ship, cargo ship, cruise ship, ocean greyhound, liner, freighter, landing barge, packet, ferry, clipper, square-rigged vessel, dhow, sailing ship, transport, oil tanker, supertanker, fishing smack, lightship, pilot boat, cutter-yacht, pindjajap, lorcha, galiot, casco, patamar, caique, bilander, baghla, state barge, battleship, cruiser, destroyer, corvette, aircraft carrier, whaling vessel, bark, barkentine, brigantine, schooner, windjammer, yacht, hydrofoil, catamaran, trimaran, dragger, cutter, ketch, yawl, bugeye, sloop, brig, tug, trawler, three-master, four-master, billyboy, hoy, felucca, caravel;


ship

v.

send, consign, direct, dispatch, mail, transmit, ship out, put into the hands of a shipper, export, put on board; see also send 1.


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ship Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • sink: At first too big - almost 200 grain ships sunk there in a storm in 62.

Adjective modifier

  • tall: Allow for tall ships with a mast height of 40m to navigate the river.

Noun used with modifier

  • sailing: Through Mighty Seas Maritime History of the NW England, primarily based on the history of over 550 sailing ships.

Adjective complement

  • 65nm: Certainly, AMD isn't expected to ship 65nm GPUs until H2 2007, and like Nvidia, it chips are made by TSMC.

Possessives

  • hull: I will sleep there, by the black ship's hull, tonight.

Noun used with modifier

  • cruise: This site shows the design of a virtual cruise ship.
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ship quotes

The king sits in Dunfermline town, Drinking the blude-red wine; 'O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?'

-Ballads

The ship's ignored.The iceberg rises and sinks again; its glassy pinnacles correct elliptics in the sky. This is a scene where he who treads the boards is artlessly rhetorical.

-Bishop, Elizabeth

Proves she like some portent of an iceberg Swimming full upon the ship it founders Hungry with huge teeth of splintered crystals?

-Browning, Robert

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