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ship

Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪp/

The English word “ship” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
  2. A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
  3. A spaceship.
  4. A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
  5. A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
  6. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
  7. The third card of the Lenormand deck.
  8. An aircraft.

verb

  1. To send by water-borne transport.
  2. To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
  3. To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
  4. To engage to serve on board a vessel.
  5. To embark on a ship.
  6. To put or secure in its place.
  7. To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.
  8. To leave, depart, scram.
  9. To pass (from one person to another).
  10. To go all in.
  11. To trade or send (a player) to another team.
  12. To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession.

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. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian schap, skap, Skep (“ship”), Saterland Frisian Schip, Skip (“ship”), West Frisian skip (“ship”),…

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