ship(n = noun.artifact) Array - a vessel that carries passengers or freight; Array
is a kind of vessel, watercraft
has parts: bay, bilge pump, bilge well, bulkhead, bulwark, cargo area, cargo deck, cargo hold, hold, storage area, crow's nest, davit, deck, fin, fo'c'sle, forecastle, funnel, caboose, cookhouse, galley, ship's galley, gyrostabiliser, gyrostabilizer, helm, log, lubber's hole, porthole, ratlin, ratline, ridge rope, riding bitt, screw, screw propeller, drogue, sea anchor, mainsheet, sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet, frame, skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe, spar, after part, poop, quarter, stern, tail, superstructure, top, topside, winch, windlass
is a member of fleet
has particulars: abandoned ship, derelict, blockade-runner, cargo ship, cargo vessel, flagship, gas-turbine ship, hospital ship, hulk, iceboat, icebreaker, lightship, minelayer, minesweeper, nuclear-powered ship, passenger ship, pirate, pirate ship, school ship, training ship, shipwreck, sister ship, slave ship, small ship, steamer, steamship, supply ship, tender, three-decker, transport ship, treasure ship, troopship, combat ship, war vessel, warship, whaler, whaling ship, wreck, bounty, h.m.s. bounty, mayflower
Derived forms verb ship5, verb ship4, verb ship3, verb ship2
1. ship(v = verb.motion) send, transport - transport commercially; Array
is one way to displace, move
Derived forms noun shipment2, noun shipment1, noun shipper2, noun shipper1, noun shipping1
Sample sentences:
They ship the parcel to their parents; They ship them the parcel
2. ship(v = verb.social) Array - hire for work on a ship; Array
is one way to employ, engage, hire
Derived form noun ship1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
3. ship(v = verb.motion) embark - go on board; Array
is one way to board, get on
Derived form noun ship1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
4. ship(v = verb.motion) Array - travel by ship; Array
is one way to journey, travel
Derived form noun ship1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
5. ship(v = verb.contact) Array - place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"
is one way to lay, place, pose, position, put, set
Derived form noun ship1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Pay; reward. [1913 Webster]
"In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages of servants." [1913 Webster]
1. Any large seagoing vessel. [1913 Webster]
"Like a stately ship . . .
With all her bravery on, and tackle trim,
Sails filled, and streamers waving." [1913 Webster]
"Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!" [1913 Webster]
2. 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. [1913 Webster]
3. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
1. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water. [1913 Webster]
"The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium." [1913 Webster]
2. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad. [1913 Webster]
3. Hence, to send away; to get rid of. [1913 Webster]
4. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen. [1913 Webster]
5. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea. [1913 Webster]
6. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder. [1913 Webster]
1. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war. [1913 Webster]
2. To embark on a ship. Wyclif (Acts xxviii. 11) [1913 Webster]
ship, n. & v.
--n.
1 a any large seagoing vessel (cf. BOAT). b a sailing-vessel with a bowsprit and three, four, or five square-rigged masts.
2 US an aircraft.
3 a spaceship.
4 colloq. a boat, esp. a racing-boat.
--v. (shipped, shipping)
1 tr. put, take, or send away (goods, passengers, sailors, etc.) on board ship.
2 tr. a take in (water) over the side of a ship, boat, etc. b take (oars) from the rowlocks and lay them inside a boat. c fix (a rudder etc.) in its place on a ship etc. d step (a mast).
3 intr. a take ship; embark. b (of a sailor) take service on a ship (shipped for Africa).
4 tr. deliver (goods) to a forwarding agent for conveyance.
Idiom:
ship-breaker a contractor who breaks up old ships. ship-broker an agent in shipping goods and insuring ships. ship burial Archaeol. burial in a wooden ship under a mound. ship-canal a canal large enough for ships to pass inland. ship (or ship's) chandler see CHANDLER. ship-fever typhus. ship-money hist. a tax raised to provide ships for the navy in the 17th c. ship of the desert the camel. ship off
1 send or transport by ship.
2 colloq. send (a person) away. ship of the line hist. a large battleship fighting in the front line of battle. ship-rigged square-rigged. ship's articles the terms on which seamen take service on a ship. ship's biscuit hist. a hard coarse kind of biscuit kept and eaten on board ship. ship's boat a small boat carried on board a ship. ship's company a ship's crew. ship's corporal see CORPORAL(1) 2. ship a sea be flooded by a wave. ship's husband an agent appointed by the owners to see to the provisioning of a ship in port. ship's papers documents establishing the ownership, nationality, nature of the cargo, etc., of a ship. take ship embark. when a person's ship comes home (or in) when a person's fortune is made.
Derivative:
shipless adj. shippable adj.
Etymology:
OE scip, scipian f. Gmc
N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.
VB transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate, convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry, carry over, ferry over, hand pass, forward, shift, conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach, tote, port, import, export, send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver, ship, embark, waft, shunt, transpose, displace, throw, drag, mail, post, shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.
N carrier, porter, bearer, tranter, conveyer, cargador, express, expressman, stevedore, coolie, conductor, locomotive, motor, beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer, racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse, ketch, Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie, garran, garron, jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding, bronco, broncho, cayuse, creature, critter, cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler, stud, Pegasus, Bucephalus, Rocinante, ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny, sumpter horse, sumpter mule, burro, cuddy, ladino, reindeer, camel, dromedary, llama, elephant, carrier pigeon, pallet, brace, cart, dolley, support, fork lift, carriage, ship, equine, asinine.
N ship, vessel, sail, craft, bottom, navy, marine, fleet, flotilla, shipping, man of war, transport, tender, storeship, merchant ship, merchantman, packet, liner, whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter, fishing boat, pilot boat, trawler, hulk, yacht, baggala, floating hotel, floating palace, ocean greyhound, ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig, brigantine, barkantine, schooner, topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner, chasse-maree, sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss, sailer, sailing vessel, windjammer, steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruiseship, ship of the line, mail steamer, paddle steamer, screw steamer, tug, line of steamers, destroyer, cruiser, frigate, landing ship, LST, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier, submarine, submersible, atomic submarine, boat, pinnace, launch, life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat, swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher, dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot, shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret, eight oar, four oar, pair oar, randan, outrigger, float, raft, pontoon, prame, iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht, catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel, felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe, galley, galleyfoist, bilander, dogger, hooker, howker, argosy, carack, galliass, galleon, polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow, dahabeah, nuggah, kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue, quadrireme, trireme, stern-wheeler, wanigan, wangan, wharf boat, balloon, airship, aeroplane, biplane, monoplane, triplane, hydroplane, aerodrome, air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin, aerostat, Montgolfier, kite, parachute, jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane, corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation, airline, common carrier, fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane, supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft, afloat, aboard, on board, on ship board, hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather, ship, vessel, sail, craft, bottom, navy, marine, fleet, flotilla, shipping, man of war, transport, tender, storeship, merchant ship, merchantman, packet, liner, whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter, fishing boat, pilot boat, trawler, hulk, yacht, baggala, floating hotel, floating palace, ocean greyhound, ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig, brigantine, barkantine, schooner, topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner, chasse-maree, sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss, sailer, sailing vessel, windjammer, steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruiseship, ship of the line, mail steamer, paddle steamer, screw steamer, tug, line of steamers, destroyer, cruiser, frigate, landing ship, LST, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier, submarine, submersible, atomic submarine, boat, pinnace, launch, life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat, swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher, dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot, shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret, eight oar, four oar, pair oar, randan, outrigger, float, raft, pontoon, prame, iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht, catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel, felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe, galley, galleyfoist, bilander, dogger, hooker, howker, argosy, carack, galliass, galleon, polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow, dahabeah, nuggah, kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue, quadrireme, trireme, stern-wheeler, wanigan, wangan, wharf boat, balloon, airship, aeroplane, biplane, monoplane, triplane, hydroplane, aerodrome, air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin, aerostat, Montgolfier, kite, parachute, jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane, corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation, airline, common carrier, fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane, supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft, afloat, aboard, on board, on ship board, hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather.
abandoned ship, about ship, capital ship, cargo ship, clipper ship, combat ship, container ship, cruise ship, dress ship, factory ship, fire ship, gas-turbine ship, guard ship, hospital ship, liberty ship, merchant ship, nuclear-powered ship, passenger ship, patrol ship, picket ship, pirate ship, sailing ship, school ship, ship biscuit, ship broker, ship builder, ship canal, ship chandler, ship money, ship of the line, ship railway, ship route, sister ship, slave ship, small ship, supply ship, surface ship, tank ship, training ship, transport ship, treasure ship, wear ship, weather ship, whaling ship