ship
IPA: ʃˈɪp
noun
- (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
- (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- (cellular automata, chiefly in combination) A spaceship.
- (cellular automata) A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
- (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (dated) An aircraft.
- (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
verb
- (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
- (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- (transitive, intransitive) To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
- (transitive, intransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
- (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.
- (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- (colloquial, with dummy it) Leave, depart, scram.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pass (from one person to another).
- (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
- (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
- (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
- (fandom slang) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
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Examples of "ship" in Sentences
- He undergirded his ship at the port.
- The ship settled near the port of Athenios.
- The ship settled to the bottom near the port of Athenios.
- The Port can accommodate the largest cruise ships in the world.
- Many of the emigrants left by ship from the port town of Hanko.
- The central battery ship was a development of the ironclad ships.
- In port, mattresses were stuffed into the holes of the ships sides.
- Three freelance artists drew the bulk of the ships and a few ports.
- Analysis revealed that the port side of the ship hit the seabed first.
- Problems with the ships engine forced the ship to be towed to the anchorage.
- The ride and stability of this ship is amazing, even in a large ocean swell.
- 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 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.
- "H.M.S. Pinafore" follows the crew aboard the title ship, and the pursuits of sailor Ralph Rackstraw, who has fallen in love with Captain Corcoran's daughter Josephine.
- Summary: "H.M.S. Pinafore" follows the crew aboard the title ship and the pursuits of sailor Ralph Rackstraw, who has fallen in love with Captain Corcoran's daughter Josephine.
- 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_.
- "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
- "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."
- 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.
- [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