ship
/ˈʃɪp/ noun, verb
Forms ships shipping shipped shipp shippe
- noun (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
- noun (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- noun (cellular automata, chiefly in combination) A spaceship.
- noun (cellular automata) A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
- noun (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
- noun A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- noun (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
- noun (dated) An aircraft.
- verb (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
- verb (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport). “to ship freight by railroad”
- verb (ergative) To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch. “Our next issue ships early next year.”
- verb (ergative) To engage to serve on board a vessel. “to ship seamen”
- verb (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
- verb (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place. “to ship the tiller or rudder”
- verb (transitive) To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel. “We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.”
- verb (colloquial, with dummy it) To leave, depart, scram.
- noun (fandom slang) A romantic pairing of two or more characters or real people, especially one imagined by fans.
- verb (fandom slang, transitive) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts. “I ship Kirk and Spock in Star Trek.”
Synonyms
Etymology
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.
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-.
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Pay; reward. [Obs.]
- noun Any large seagoing vessel.
- noun Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side; 1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2 Tiller; 3 Grating; 4 Wheel; 5 Wheel Chains; 6 Binnacle; 7 Mizzenmast; 8 Skylight; 9 Capstan; 10 Mainmast; 11 Pumps; 12 Galley or Caboose; 13 Main Hatchway; 14 Windlass; 15 Foremast; 16 Fore Hatchway; 17 Bitts; 18 Bowsprit; 19 Head Rail; 20 Boomkins; 21 Catheads on Port Bow and St
- verb To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
Etymology [AS. scipe.]
Etymology [OE. ship, schip, AS. scip; akin to OFries. skip, OS. scip, D. schip, G. schiff, OHG. scif, Dan. skib, Sw. skeep, Icel. & Goth. skip; of unknown origin. Cf. Equip, Skiff, Skipper.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ship”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details