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ship⋅ping

  [ship-ing]
–noun
1. the act or business of a person or thing that ships.
2. a number of ships, esp. merchant ships, taken as a whole; tonnage.
3. Obsolete. a voyage.
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Origin:
1250–1300; ME; see ship, -ing 1
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  [ship] noun, verb, shipped, ship⋅ping.
–noun
1. a vessel, esp. a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
2. 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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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.
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ship   (shĭp)   
n.  

    1. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

    2. A sailing vessel having three or more square-rigged masts.

  2. An aircraft or spacecraft.

  3. The crew of one of these vessels.

  4. One's fortune: When my ship comes in, I'll move to a larger house.

v.   shipped, ship·ping, ships

v.   tr.

  1. To place or receive on board a ship: shipped the cargo in the hold.

  2. To cause to be transported by or as if by ship; send. See Synonyms at send1.

  3. 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.

  5. To hire (a person) for work on a ship.

  6. To take in (water) over the side of a ship.

v.   intr.

  1. To go aboard a ship; embark.

  2. To travel by ship.

  3. To hire oneself out or enlist for service on a ship.

Phrasal Verb(s):
ship out

  1. To accept a position on board a ship and serve as a crew member: shipped out on a tanker.

  2. To leave, as for a distant place: troops shipping out to the war zone.

  3. To send, as to a distant place.

  4. Informal To quit, resign from, or otherwise vacate a position: Shape up or ship out.


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

[Middle English, from Old English scip.]
ship'pa·ble adj.
ship·ping   (shĭp'ĭng)   
n.  

  1. The act or business of transporting goods.

  2. The body of ships belonging to one port, industry, or country, often referred to in aggregate tonnage.

  3. Passage or transport on a ship.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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