Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.
- n. A sailing vessel having three or more square-rigged masts.
- n. An aircraft or spacecraft.
- n. The crew of one of these vessels.
- n. One's fortune: When my ship comes in, I'll move to a larger house.
- v. To place or receive on board a ship: shipped the cargo in the hold.
- v. To cause to be transported by or as if by ship; send. See Synonyms at send1.
- v. To place (a ship's mast or rudder, for example) in its working position.
- v. To bring into a ship or boat: ship an anchor.
- v. To place (an oar) in a resting position inside a boat without removing it from the oarlock.
- v. To hire (a person) for work on a ship.
- v. To take in (water) over the side of a ship.
- v. To go aboard a ship; embark.
- v. To travel by ship.
- v. To hire oneself out or enlist for service on a ship.
- ship out To accept a position on board a ship and serve as a crew member: shipped out on a tanker.
- ship out To leave, as for a distant place: troops shipping out to the war zone.
- ship out To send, as to a distant place.
- ship out Informal To quit, resign from, or otherwise vacate a position: Shape up or ship out.
- idiom. tight ship A well-managed and efficient business, household, or organization: We run a tight ship.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vessel of considerable size adapted to navigation: a general term for sea-going vessels of every kind, except boats. Ships are of various sizes and fitted for various uses, and receive different names, according to their rig, motive power (wind or steam or both), and the purposes to which they are applied, as war-ships, transports, merchantmen, barks, brigs, schooners, luggers, sloops, xebecs, galleys, etc. The name ship, as descriptive of a particular rig, and as roughly implying a certain size, has been used to designate a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts—a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast—each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallantmast, and carries a certain number of square sails. The square sails on the mizzen distinguish a ship from a bark, a bark having only fore and-aft sails on the mizzen. But the development of coastwise navigation, in which the largest vessels have generally a schooner rig and sometimes four masts, has gone far toward rendering this restricted application of the word of little value. Owing to increase of size, and especially increase in length, some sailing vessels now have four masts, and this rig is said to have certain advantages. Until recent times wood, such as oak, pine, etc., was the material of which all ships were constructed, but it is being rapidly superseded by iron and steel; and in Great Britain, which is the chief ship-building country in the world, the tonnage of the wooden vessels constructed is small compared with that of vessels built of iron. The first iron vessel classed at Lloyd's was built at Liverpool in 1838, but iron barges and small vessels had been constructed long before this. Four-masted vessels which are square-rigged on all four masts are called
four-masted ships ; those which have fore-and-aft sails on the after mast are calledfour-masted barks . See also cuts underbeam , 3, body-plan, counter, forebody, forecastle, keel, poop, and prow. - n. Eccles., a vessel formed like the hull of a ship, in which incense was kept: same as navicula, 1.
- To put or take on board a ship or vessel: as, to ship goods at Liverpool for New York.
- To send or convey by ship; transport by ship.
- To deliver to a common carrier, forwarder, express company, etc., for transportation, whether by land or water or both: as, to ship by express, by railway, or by stage.
- To engage for service on board any vessel: as, to ship seamen.
- To fix in proper place: as, to ship the oars, the tiller, or the rudder.
- To go on board a vessel to make a voyage; take ship; embark.
- To engage for service on board a ship.
- A common English suffix, which may be attached to any noun denoting a person or agent to denote the state, office, dignity, profession, art, or proficiency of such person or agent: as, lord- ship, fellowship, friendship, clerkship, steward- ship, horsemanship, worship (orig. worthship), etc.
- n. In an ancient style of chess played with dice, the piece called ‘bishop’ in the modern game. In this game each player had two sets of white pieces and two sets of black pieces respectively, consisting of two kings, two rooks (elephants), two knights (equestrians), two bishops (ships), and four pawns (pedestrians) each.
Wiktionary
- n. A water-borne vessel larger than a boat.
- n. A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- n. A sailing vessel with three square-rigged masts.
- n. A fictional romantic relationship between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
- v. To send a parcel or container to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- v. To send by water-borne transport.
- v. To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- v. To be a fan or promote a certain ship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Pay; reward.
- n. Any large seagoing vessel.
- n. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See
Illustation in Appendix. - n. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- v. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
- v. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance.
- v. Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
- v. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship.
- v. To receive on board ship.
- v. To put in its place.
- v. To engage to serve on board of a vessel.
- v. To embark on a ship.
WordNet 3.0
- v. go on board
- v. hire for work on a ship
- v. place on board a ship
- n. a vessel that carries passengers or freight
- v. travel by ship
- v. transport commercially
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English scip.
Examples
“God of mercy -- the ship, the _ship_!" gasped Sir Edgar, clutching my arm in a grip that left its mark on the skin for days afterward; and, as he spoke, the huge incandescent mass fell full upon the hull of the”
“When this ill-omened ship lay in Boston harbor, previous to her last and fatal cruise, she could not get men; and that from the impression on the minds of sailors, that _she was an unlucky ship_.”
“The ship which goes yearly from India to China is called the _drug ship_, because she carries various drugs of Cambaia, but her principal lading consists of silver.”
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
“Colonel Watson's ship should enter the port of Canton as an _armed ship_, (they would not say a ship of war, though that must be meant,) that her cargo should not be reported; they also ordered that other measures should be adopted to secure this prohibited article from seizure.”
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12)
“[226] Add to this, what I have before taken notice of, the great absurdity of making the Grecian Argo the first ship which sailed upon the seas: Illa rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten: when the poet, at the same instant, is describing Theseus, previous to the Argo, _in a ship_, and attended with”
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
“Later when the ship€ ™ s CCTV camera footage were examined, she was seen jumping into the ocean from the deck of the ship, in which her husband works as a manager.”
“The term ship, as usually applied, has reference to a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts -- a mainmast, a foremast and a mizzenmast; and these three masts are each composed of three parts, namely, a lowermast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast.”
“The ride and stability of this ship is amazing, even in a large ocean swell.”
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Suffix
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Orders and Logistics
Words connected to logistics; designed for Business English students.
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transportation
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