Ship Definition

shĭp
shipped, shipping, ships
noun
ships
A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.
American Heritage
A sailing vessel with a bowsprit and at least three square-rigged masts, each composed of three sections, a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast.
Webster's New World
Any large seagoing vessel.
Webster's New World
An aircraft.
Webster's New World
One's fortune.
When my ship comes in, I'll move to a larger house.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
shipped, shipping, ships
To place or receive on board a ship.
Shipped the cargo in the hold.
American Heritage
To send or transport by any carrier.
To ship cattle by rail.
Webster's New World
To place (a ship's mast or rudder, for example) in its working position.
American Heritage
To put or fix (an object) in its proper place on a ship or boat.
Ship the oars.
Webster's New World
To go aboard ship; embark.
Webster's New World
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suffix
Quality, state, or condition.
Scholarship.
American Heritage
Something that shows or possesses a quality, state, or condition.
Courtship.
American Heritage
Rank, status, or office.
Professorship.
American Heritage
Art, skill, or craft.
Penmanship.
American Heritage
A collective body.
Readership.
American Heritage
affix
The quality, condition, or state of being.
Hardship, friendship.
Webster's New World
The rank or office of.
Professorship.
Webster's New World
A person having the rank or status of.
Lordship.
Webster's New World
Ability or skill as.
Statesmanship.
Webster's New World
All individuals (of the specified class) collectively.
Readership.
Webster's New World
idiom
tight ship
  • A well-managed and efficient business, household, or organization:

    We run a tight ship.

American Heritage
tight ship
  • A well-managed and efficient business, household, or organization:

    We run a tight ship.

American Heritage
ship over
  • to reenlist in the U.S. Navy
Webster's New World
ship out
  • to go to sea
  • to leave, esp. because of not doing as well as expected
Webster's New World
the Ship
  • the constellation Argo
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Ship

Noun

Singular:
ship
Plural:
ships

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Ship

Origin of Ship

  • Cognate with West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, German Schiff, Yiddish שיף (shif), Danish skib, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up"), Latvian Å¡kibît (“to cut, lop").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English -shippe, from Old English -sciepe, -scipe (“shape, form, state"), from Proto-Germanic *-skapiz. Compare Scots -schip, West Frisian -skip, Dutch -schap, German -schaft, Danish -skab.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English ship, schip, from Old English scip, from Proto-Germanic *skipÄ…, from Proto-Indo-European *skÄ“i-b-, *ski-b-.

    From Wiktionary

  • ME < OE -scipe (akin to Ger -schaft, Du -scap) < base of scieppan, to create: see shape

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English -scipe

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English scip

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English scip

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From relationship.

    From Wiktionary

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