ship

English Online Dictionary. What means ship‎? What does ship mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: shĭp, IPA^(key): /ʃɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle English ship, schip, from Old English sċip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą, from Proto-Indo-European *skēyb-, *skib-. More at shift.

Alternative forms

• shippe (obsolete)

Noun

ship (plural ships)

2. (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
3. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
4. (cellular automata, chiefly in combination) A spaceship.
5. (cellular automata) A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
6. (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
7. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense[15th century].
8. (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
9. (dated) An aircraft.

Usage notes

• The singular form ship is sometimes used without any article, producing such sentences as "In all, we spent three weeks aboard ship." and "Abandon ship!". (Similar patterns may be seen with many place nouns, such as camp, home, work, and school, but the details vary between them.)
• Ships were traditionally regarded as feminine and the pronouns her and she are still sometimes used instead of it, though this usage is in decline.

Hyponyms

• Thesaurus:watercraft

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: シップ (shippu)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”). Doublet of equip.

Verb

ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)

1. (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
3. (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).

4. (ergative) To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.

5. (ergative) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
6. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
7. (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.

8. (transitive) To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.

9. (colloquial, with dummy it) To leave, depart, scram.
   • 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:

     Douglas: Sorry girls, you better go. Girls! Ship it!

10. (ditransitive, colloquial) To pass (from one person to another).
11. (ambitransitive, poker slang) To go all in.
12. (transitive, sports) To trade or send (a player) to another team.

13. (transitive, rugby) To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of relationship.

Noun

ship (plural ships)

2. (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
3. (uncommon) Clipping of relationship.

Coordinate terms

• slash fiction
• slash

Derived terms

• shipfic

Translations

Verb

ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)

2. (fandom slang, transitive) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• → Spanish: shippear, shipear
• → Portuguese: shippar
• → Russian: шипперить (šipperitʹ)

See also

• -ship

Further reading

• Shipping (fandom) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, pish

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃip/

Noun

ship m (plural ships)

1. (fandom slang) ship

Middle English

Noun

ship

1. Alternative form of schip

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ship, clipping of relationship.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: chipe
• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ipi

Noun

ship m (plural ships)

1. (Brazil, fandom slang) ship (a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional)

Derived terms

• shippar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English ship.

Noun

ship m (plural ships)

1. (fandom slang) ship

Vietnamese

Etymology

Clipping of English shipping.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sip̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂip̚˦˧˥] ~ [sip̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂip̚˦˥] ~ [sip̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: síp
• Homophone: Síp

Verb

ship

1. to ship (goods to customers), to make a delivery

   Synonym: giao