ship
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.?
Proto-Germanic *skipą
Proto-West Germanic *skip
Old English scip
Middle English schip
English ship
From Middle English chip, schepe, schip, schup, scip, scippe, ship, shup, ssip, from Old English sċip, sċyp, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship; tub, vessel”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). More at shift.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian schap, skap, Skep (“ship”), Saterland Frisian Schip, Skip (“ship”), West Frisian skip (“ship”), Central Franconian Scheff (“ship”), Dutch schip (“ship”), German Schiff (“ship”), Low German Schipp (“ship”), Luxembourgish Schëff (“ship”), Vilamovian śejf, siejft (“ship”), Yiddish שיף (shif, “ship”), Danish skib (“ship”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skip (“ship”), Swedish skepp (“ship”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip, “ship”).
Compare typologically boat, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-.
Inflected forms:
form: ships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shipp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: shippe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ships
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
gloss: A spaceship.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: I don't know if there is another standard method, but the following approach works: Consider the collision of gliders from three rakes that produces a medium spaceship in the _same_ direction as the rake. This ship will follow along to the next collision point, which will not produce a spaceship, but rather some stable garbage, consisting of a block and a beehive.
Aside from the one ship in B3/S124 shown above, the only spaceships of this size (with period up to 20) in any of these rules are the Life glider and the three known from B2/ (each of which also is found in some variants of the Life or B2/ rules).
While constructing a butterfly double gun I put one cell at the wrong site and the result was highly surprising: my pattern turned to a big, beautiful ship, very similar to those found in Aqua25 from Al Hensel's collection!
gloss: A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
pos: noun
examples: But there are no ships, and no natural traffic lights or honey farms. The ship self destructs, and the predecessors to the traffic lights and honey farms self-destruct in spectacular manners.
In the case of these "ship" neighborhoods, birth will occur at the center cell, thus deviating from the "overcrowding" rule of Life (HighLife allows such a birth in all neighborhoods containing 6 cells).
gloss: A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
formal
gloss: A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
pos: noun
gloss: The third card of the Lenormand deck.
pos: noun
gloss: An aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: This means that the landing wheels are not so far forward of the ship's center of gravity ; and that means that ground contact is less likely to produce a bounce.
In addition to the four NAA pilots, three Air Force and one RAF pilot, all based at Edwards, flew the ship after first being checked out on the "tether rig."
gloss: To send by water-borne transport.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All the timber whereof, was […] ſhipped in the bay of Attalia[…], from whence it was by ſea tranſported to Pelusium.
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.
gloss: To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to ship freight by railroad
gloss: To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: Our next issue ships early next year.
It compiles? Ship it!
gloss: To engage to serve on board a vessel.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: to ship seamen
I shipped on a man-of-war.
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;[…]
gloss: To embark on a ship.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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; […]
gloss: To put or secure in its place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to ship the tiller or rudder
To the upper part of the frame a chain is attached, and if the screw shaft be drawn back out of the boss, the square frame may be hove up by carrying the chain to a winch—the sliding block maintaining the frame in the perpendicular position. By the use of this contrivance, therefore, the screw may be shipped or unshipped with facility.
gloss: To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.
We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.
gloss: To leave, depart, scram.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: Douglas: Sorry girls, you better go. Girls! Ship it!
gloss: To pass (from one person to another).
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
ditransitive
examples: Can you ship me the ketchup?
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.
gloss: To go all in.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
gloss: To trade or send (a player) to another team.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.
gloss: To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
Derived words: abandon ship
about ship
air ship
air-to-ship
amidship
amidships
amphibious assault ship
antiship
anti-ship missile
Apostolicship
arsenal ship
aship
assembly ship
astroship
battle ship
bioship
blockship
bomb ship
'bout ship
cable ship
cameraship
capital ship
cheer ship
cityship
country ship
disship
dogship
drillship
drop ship
dropship
enship
fire ship
flareship
foreship
free alongside ship
generation ship
ghost ship
ground-to-ship
guard ship
guardship
gunship
inship
intership
intraship
I-ship
it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean
jump ship
knightship
landing ship
landship
liberty ship
light-ship
like a rat from a sinking ship
like rats from a sinking ship
line of battle ship
lodeship
lofty ship
mailship
make ship
megaship
mega-ship
midship
midships
misship
moonship
mothership
mystery ship
one's ship comes in
passenger ship
patrol ship
pirate ship
planetship
plate ship
private ship
Q-ship
research ship
right the ship
rocket ship
rocketship
round ship
sailship
schoolship
scoutship
sealship
seedship
senior ship-of-the-line captain
senior ship of the line captain
shadow ship
shape up or ship out
Shipageddon
ship ahoy
ship a sea
ship biscuit
shipboard
shipborne
shipbound
ship-boy
shipboy
ship bread
shipbreaker
ship-breaker
shipbreaking
shipbroaker
shipbroken
shipbroker
shipbroking
ship-builder
shipbuilder
ship-building
shipbuilding
ship canal
shipcarver
shipcarving
ship chandler
ship-craft
shipcraft
ship-fever
ship fever
ship fitter
shipfitter
shipfitting
shipful
shipfyrd
shipgirl
ship-gun
shiphandler
shiphandling
shipholder
shipholding
ship in a bottle
ship-jumper
ship-keeper
shipkeeper
shipkeeping
shipkiller
ship-language
shiplap
ship-last
ship-launch
shipless
shiplet
ship letter
ship lift
shiplike
shipling
shipload
ship-log
shiplord
shiply
ship-man
shipman
shipmaster
shipmate
shipmistress
ship model basin
ship money
ship of fools
ship of state
ship of the desert
ship-of-the-line
ship of the line captain
ship-of-the-line captain
ship of the line ensign
ship-of-the-line ensign
ship of the line ensign first class
ship-of-the-line ensign first class
ship-of-the-line ensign second class
ship of the line ensign second class
ship of the line lieutenant
ship-of-the-line lieutenant
ship of the line of battle
ship of Theseus
ship out
ship over
shipowner
shipowning
ship-pound
ship railway
ship rat
ship-rigged
Shiprock
shiproom
ship's biscuit
ship's boat
ship's books
ship's company
ship's corporal
ship's cousin
ship's days
shipset
ship's force
ship-shape
shipshape
shipshed
ship's husband
shipside
ship-sloop
shipsmith
ship's papers
shipspeak
ship's steward
ships that pass in the night
shipstuff
ship-timber
shiptime
ship-to-air
ship-to-ground
ship-to-ship
ship-to-shore
ship tracks
shipward
shipwards
shipway
shipwide
shipwise
shipwork
shipworker
shipworm
shipwreck
shipwrecker
shipwright
shipyard
single-ship
skyship
slave ship
sleeper ship
spaceship
spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
spyship
steady the ship
steam-ship
steam ship
stiffship
storeship
stores ship
supership
surface ship
swanship
take ship
tankship
that ship has already sailed
that ship has sailed
the captain goes down with the ship
timeship
towship
trailership
tranship
transship
trans-ship
treasure ship
turret ship
turtle ship
twin-ship
twinship
twin ship
two lamps burning and no ship at sea
Viking ship
weather ship
whaleship
anti-ship
hateship
multiship
shippy
reship
ship and let ship
shipment
shippability
shippable
shippage
shipper
shipping
short-ship
unship
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