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Audio Help [ship] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, shipped, ship·ping.

–noun

1.	a vessel, esp. a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.

Nautical.

a.	a sailing vessel square-rigged on all of three or more masts, having jibs, staysails, and a spanker on the aftermost mast.

b.	Now Rare. a bark having more than three masts. Compare shipentine.

3.	the crew and, sometimes, the passengers of a vessel: The captain gave the ship shore leave.

4.	an airship, airplane, or spacecraft.

–verb (used with object)

5.	to put or take on board a ship or other means of transportation; to send or transport by ship, rail, truck, plane, etc.

6.	Nautical. to take in (water) over the side, as a vessel does when waves break over it.

7.	to bring (an object) into a ship or boat.

8.	to engage (someone) for service on a ship.

9.	to fix in a ship or boat in the proper place for use.

10.	to place (an oar) in proper position for rowing. Compare boat (def. 10).

11.	to send away: They shipped the kids off to camp for the summer.

–verb (used without object)

12.	to go on board or travel by ship; embark.

13.	to engage to serve on a ship.

—Verb phrase

14.

ship out,

a.	to leave, esp. for another country or assignment: He said goodby to his family and shipped out for the West Indies.

b.	to send away, esp. to another country or assignment.

c.	Informal. to quit, resign, or be fired from a job: Shape up or ship out!

—Idioms

15.

jump ship,

a.	to escape from a ship, esp. one in foreign waters or a foreign port, as to avoid further service as a sailor or to request political asylum.

b.	to withdraw support or membership from a group, organization, cause, etc.; defect or desert: Some of the more liberal members have jumped ship.

16.	run a tight ship, to exercise a close, strict control over a ship's crew, a company, organization, or the like.

17.	when one's ship comes in or home, when one's fortune is assured: She'll buy a car as soon as her ship comes in.

[Origin: bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE scip; c. D schip, G Schiff, ON, Goth skip; (v.) ME s(c)hip(p)en, deriv. of the n.

]

—Related forms

shipless, adjective

ship·less·ly, adverb

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ship Audio Help (shĭp) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.
2. A sailing vessel having three or more square-rigged masts.
An aircraft or spacecraft.
The crew of one of these vessels.
One's fortune: When my ship comes in, I'll move to a larger house.

v. shipped, ship·ping, ships

v. tr.

To place or receive on board a ship: shipped the cargo in the hold.
To cause to be transported by or as if by ship; send. See Synonyms at send¹.
To place (a ship's mast or rudder, for example) in its working position.
1. To bring into a ship or boat: ship an anchor.
2. To place (an oar) in a resting position inside a boat without removing it from the oarlock.
To hire (a person) for work on a ship.
To take in (water) over the side of a ship.

v. intr.

To go aboard a ship; embark.
To travel by ship.
To hire oneself out or enlist for service on a ship.

Phrasal Verb(s):
ship out

To accept a position on board a ship and serve as a crew member: shipped out on a tanker.
To leave, as for a distant place: troops shipping out to the war zone.
To send, as to a distant place.
Informal To quit, resign from, or otherwise vacate a position: Shape up or ship out.

Idiom(s):
tight ship
A well-managed and efficient business, household, or organization: We run a tight ship.

[Middle English, from Old English scip.]

ship'pa·ble adj.

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ship (n.)

O.E. scip "ship, boat," from P.Gmc. *skipan (cf. O.N., O.S., Goth. skip, Dan. skib, Swed. skepp, M.Du. scip, Du. schip, O.H.G. skif, Ger. Schiff), perhaps originally "tree cut out or hollowed out," and derived from PIE base *skei- "to cut, split." The O.E. word was used for small craft as well; in 19c., distinct from a boat in having a bowsprit and three masts, each with a lower, top, and topgallant mast. Fr. esquif, It. schifo are Gmc. loan-words. Ship-board "side of a ship" is from c.1200. Ship-shape "properly arranged" first attested 1644. Phrase ships that pass in the night is from Longfellow's poem "Aftermath" (1873). Phrase runs a tight ship is attested from 1971.

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ship (v.)

c.1300, "to send or transport by ship," from ship (n.). Transf. to other means of conveyance (railroad, etc.) from 1857, originally Amer.Eng. Shipment "that which is shipped" is from 1861.

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ship
noun
1.	a vessel that carries passengers or freight
verb
1.	transport commercially [syn: transport]
2.	hire for work on a ship
3.	go on board [syn: embark] [ant: debark]
4.	travel by ship
5.	place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"

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ship

In addition to the idioms beginning with ship, also see desert a sinking ship; enough to sink a ship; shape up (or ship out); tight ship; when one's ship comes in.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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ship1 [ʃip] noun

a large boat
Example: The ship sank and all the passengers and crew were drowned.

Arabic:	سَفينَه
Chinese (Simplified):	船
Chinese (Traditional):	船
Czech:	loď
Danish:	skib
Dutch:	schip
Estonian:	laev
Finnish:	laiva
French:	navire
German:	das Schiff
Greek:	πλοίο
Hungarian:	hajó
Icelandic:	skip
Indonesian:	kapal
Italian:	nave

Japanese:	船
Korean:	(큰) 배
Latvian:	kuģis
Lithuanian:	laivas
Norwegian:	skip
Polish:	statek
Portuguese (Brazil):	navio
Portuguese (Portugal):	navio
Romanian:	navă
Russian:	корабль, судно
Slovak:	loď
Slovenian:	ladja
Spanish:	barco, buque, navío, embarcación
Swedish:	skepp, fartyg
Turkish:	gemi, vapur

ship2 [ʃip] noun

any of certain types of transport that fly
Example: a spaceship

Arabic:	سَفينَة فَضائِيَّه
Chinese (Simplified):	飞船
Chinese (Traditional):	飛船
Czech:	loď, plavidlo
Danish:	-skib
Dutch:	schip
Estonian:	(õhu)laev
Finnish:	alus
French:	vaisseau
German:	das Schiff
Greek:	σκάφος
Hungarian:	űrhajó; repülőgép
Icelandic:	geimskip
Indonesian:	kapal terbang
Italian:	nave

Japanese:	宇宙船
Korean:	비행선
Latvian:	kosmosa kuģis
Lithuanian:	laivas
Norwegian:	(rom)skip
Polish:	statek
Portuguese (Brazil):	nave
Portuguese (Portugal):	nave
Romanian:	navetă spaţială
Russian:	самолёт; космический корабль
Slovak:	loď
Slovenian:	ladja
Spanish:	nave
Swedish:	skepp, skepp
Turkish:	hava aracı

ship [ʃip] verb

to send or transport by ship
Example: The books were shipped to Australia.

Arabic:	يُرْسِل او يَشْحَن بالسَّفينَه
Chinese (Simplified):	用船运输
Chinese (Traditional):	用船運輸
Czech:	dopravit lodí
Danish:	sende; sende med skib
Dutch:	per schip transporteren
Estonian:	laevaga vedama
Finnish:	laivata, lähettää
French:	expédier (par bateau, *mer)
German:	verschiffen
Greek:	φορτώνω, στέλνω με καράβι
Hungarian:	hajón szállít
Icelandic:	senda, *flytja með skipi
Indonesian:	mengapalkan
Italian:	spedire, inviare

Japanese:	送る
Korean:	…을 선편으로 보내다
Latvian:	nogādāt, *transportēt ar kuģi
Lithuanian:	(iš)siųsti, (iš)gabenti
Norwegian:	sende med skip
Polish:	przesyłać
Portuguese (Brazil):	expedir por via marítima
Portuguese (Portugal):	embarcar
Romanian:	a expedia (cu vaporul, *pe mare)
Russian:	перевозить, транспортировать
Slovak:	dopraviť loďou
Slovenian:	poslati (z ladjo)
Spanish:	enviar, mandar, transportar
Swedish:	skeppa, frakta
Turkish:	gemiyle göndermek

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Ship Bottom, NJ (borough, FIPS 67110) Location: 39.64510 N, 74.18327 W
Population (1990): 1352 (2084 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

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Ship

E*quip"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Equipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Equipping.] [F. ['e]quiper to supply, fit out, orig. said of a ship, OF. esquiper to embark; of German origin; cf. OHG. scif, G. schiff, Icel. skip, AS. scip. See Ship.]

1. To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. --Dryden.

Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. --Ludlow.

2. To dress up; to array; accouter.

The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. --Addison.

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Ship

Fore"stay`\, n. (Naut.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

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Ship

Fore`-top"mast\, n. (Naut.) The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.

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Ship

Fore"yard`\, n. (Naut.) The lowermost yard on the foremast.

Note: [See Illust. of Ship.]

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