ship

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/ˈʃɪp/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A large boat used to carry people or goods.

  2. 02

    verb

    To send or transport something.

Examples

  • The ship was dredged from the depths of the ocean.

  • Which goes faster, a ship or a train?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A spaceship.

  2. A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.

  3. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.

More examples

In context

  • We saw another ship far ahead.

  • Our next issue ships early next year.

  • to ship freight by railroad

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”), Swedis...