ship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shĭp
ipa: /ʃɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: ships
form: shipping
form: shipped
form: shipped
Etymology: From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-West Germanic *skipōn, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”). Doublet of equip.
Senses: examples: text: All the timber whereof, was […] ſhipped in the bay of Attalia[…], from whence it was by ſea tranſported to Pelusium.
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, “The Life of Solyman, the Fourth and Most Magnificent Emperour of the Turkes”, in The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 670:
text: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
glosses: To send by water-borne transport.
examples: text: to ship freight by railroad
glosses: To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
examples: text: Our next issue ships early next year.
text: It compiles? Ship it!
glosses: To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
examples: text: to ship seamen
text: I shipped on a man-of-war.
text: With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped, have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be;[…]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To engage to serve on board a vessel.
examples: text: I shipped with them and becoming friends, we set forth on our venture, in health and safety; and sailed with a fair wind, till we came to a city called Madínat-al-Sín; […]
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 563”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: To embark on a ship.
examples: text: to ship the tiller or rudder
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To put or secure in its place.
examples: text: She was half in the water, a mere hulk, her rigging torn to shreds, her main mast cut away, and every sea she shipped, Melmoth could hear distinctly the dying cries of those who were swept away, or perhaps of those whose mind and body, alike exhausted, relaxed their benumbed hold of hope and life together,—knew that the next shriek that was uttered must be their own and their last.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 159:
text: But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.
glosses: To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.
examples: text: Douglas: Sorry girls, you better go. Girls! Ship it!
ref: 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
glosses: To leave, depart, scram.
raw_tags: with dummy it
examples: text: Can you ship me the ketchup?
text: And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.
ref: 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To pass (from one person to another).
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To go all in.
examples: text: Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To trade or send (a player) to another team.
examples: text: England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
text: They shipped penalties, lost field position, and in the second-half, having retreated to the changing room buoyed by Dougie Fife’s well-worked try, found themselves ceding two-thirds of the territory and with it, the lion’s share of the ball.
ref: 2015 February 11, “Six Nations: Scotland raw but capable of improving”, in The Scotsman:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: reship
sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: ship and let ship
sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: shipment
sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: shippability
sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: shippable
sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: shippage
sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: shipper
sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: shipping
sense: Terms derived from ship (verb)
word: unship