Ship

Quick meaning: Ship is a noun meaning (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.

Meaning

(nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

All the timber whereof, was […] ſhipped in the bay of Attalia[…], from whence it was by ſea tranſported to Pelusium.

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."

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.

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.

Word Forms

• ships
• shippe
• shipping
• shipped

Synonyms for ship

Depending on context, synonyms include keel, transport, send.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transport, send, shipboard, vessel, cruiser, barge.

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