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Ship

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noun

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

Nautical.

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

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

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

an airship, airplane, or spacecraft.

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verb (used with object)

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

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

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

to engage (someone) for service on a ship.

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

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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.

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to bark; yelp.

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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,

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

to send away, especially to another country or assignment.

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

Idioms

15.

jump ship,

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

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

Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English scip; cognate with Dutch schip, German Schiff, Old Norse, Gothic skip; (v.) Middle English s(c)hip(p)en, derivative of the noun

Related forms

ship·less, adjective

ship·less·ly, adverb

mis·ship, verb, -shipped, -ship·ping.

pre·ship, verb (used with object), -shipped, -ship·ping.

Can be confused: barge, boat, canoe, cruise ship, sailboat, ship, yacht.

Example Sentences

If they want their jobs to survive, they have to be the kind of people who'll be hauled back onto the ship.

Software firms prefer to bash out code and then try to catch as many bugs as possible while racing to ship the product.

For starters, the ship burns a mixture of rubber and laughing gas.

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If they want their jobs to survive, they have to be the kind of people who'll be hauled back onto the ship.

Software firms prefer to bash out code and then try to catch as many bugs as possible while racing to ship the product.

For starters, the ship burns a mixture of rubber and laughing gas.

Ship traffic, seismic tests and sonar pings can make navigating the seas tricky for whales.

It has been a century since the storied dreadnought sank, but controversy has not yet abandoned the ship.

Wooden crates used to ship tea make great cachepots for large plants.

Send it out to sea in search of a humanitarian aid ship to destroy.

Mexican border crossers aren't sinking the ship, capitalists are sinking your ship.

The building of a cruise ship is a huge logistical challenge.

Five centuries ago a ship loaded with gold wrecked off a beach laden with diamonds.

For years big ship propulsion had a standard configuration: a propeller in the rear with a rudder behind it to steer.

Bermuda's tourist trade is thriving, and it's a regular stop on many cruise ship itineraries.

The hammock's design brings to mind a graceful sailing ship that has come into the harbor of a tropical paradise.

Fending off pirates is tough work that demands a tough ship.

They either hadn't been through the annual review cycle or received a poor review and jumped ship.

He had a helicopter landing pad built on the ship which enabled him to fly in for an occasional hour or two of filming.

When they reached our ship they threw their padded grappling.

Japan builds a ship to drill to the earth's mantle.

Just four days out, though, a storm struck and damaged the ship.

The company plans to ship both the single and dual-screen tablet by the end of the year.

Students who don't get a definite big firm offer need to realize that the ship has sailed and start looking at other options.

Left unspoken is the hope, felt by many, that the tax will perhaps turn away a ship or two.

His ship was a favorite among the federal fleet, an.

It is not practical to ship water by pipeline because water is so cheap.

It towers above the museum's displays of ship models and marine artifacts.

Reed's model doesn't indicate how fast the ship will roll upright.

Your loose lips may sink your ship as well as theirs.

Some reckon firms are over-invoicing for exports to ship black money back into the country.

Threats include ship strikes, entanglement in fishing lines, chemical and noise pollution.

Presumably this approach will enable the ship to navigate past the jet stream and maintain its position.

Merchants will ship them home for you, though many tourists find it cheaper and more foolproof to carry them back.

Its leaders decided, let's not try to integrate-the ship is too burdened to change course now.

He brings his ship through here every month, but it is always a tense, careful manoeuvre.

It's not a pirate's treasure, but it may be an old pirate ship.

Then, using the same pairs of photos, researchers asked the kids which candidate they'd choose to captain their ship.

He ordered his men to dismantle the ship and build a fort with its timbers onshore.

Give the spouse a short period of time to shape up, or ship out.

Learning more about rogue waves, the researchers said, could help ship designers bolster the seaworthiness of their crafts.

Why is the military and ship industry putting food in their tanks.

It's between the small boat harbor and the cruise ship dock, next to an undercover area.

Maybe the moving company can store things until you have an address or you can put stuff in storage yourself before you ship it.

Dredges, cranes, and minesweeping helicopters help reopen one of the world's crucial ship channels.

Just plop a few vials on the lawn and some on the sidewalk, wait an hour, and then ship your samples back to the scientists.

But no one before him had thought to ship the stuff to the places with warmer climates that could really use it.

At the end of the day, it's only smart to look to leave a sinking ship.

The agency is scrambling to secure a ship to lead its annual.

Sometimes one question is the one that sinks the ship.

Instead, they ship samples to facilities with the necessary licenses and expertise.

But mostly geographic discovery depended on the ship.

Give yourself a doctorate, a tenured position, then jump ship for another university.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

a native English suffix of nouns denoting condition, character, office, skill, etc.: clerkship; friendship; statesmanship.

Origin:
Middle English, Old English -scipe; akin to shape; cognate with dialectal Frisian, dialectal Dutch schip

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World English Dictionary

ship (ʃɪp)

—n
1.	a vessel propelled by engines or sails for navigating on the water, esp a large vessel that cannot be carried aboard another, as distinguished from a boat
2.	nautical a large sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts
3.	the crew of a ship
4.	airship short for spaceship
5.	informal any vehicle or conveyance
6.	when one's ship comes in when one has become successful or wealthy

—vb (often foll by off) , ships, shipping, shipped
7.	to place, transport, or travel on any conveyance, esp aboard a ship: ship the microscopes by aeroplane; can we ship tomorrow?
8.	(tr) nautical to take (water) over the side
9.	to bring or go aboard a vessel: to ship oars
10.	informal to send away, often in order to be rid of: they shipped the children off to boarding school
11.	(intr) to engage to serve aboard a ship: I shipped aboard a Liverpool liner
12.	informal (tr) to concede (a goal): Celtic have shipped eight goals in three away matches

[Old English scip; related to Old Norse skip, Old High German skif ship, scipfī cup]

'shippable

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

-ship

O.E. -sciepe, Anglian -scip "state, condition of being," from P.Gmc. *-skapaz (cf. O.N. -skapr, O.Fris. -skip, Du. -schap, Ger. -schaft), from base *skap- "to create, ordain, appoint." Cognate with O.E. gesceape (see shape).

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ship

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.

ship

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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Idioms & Phrases

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.