ship

See also: -ship

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: shĭp, IPA^(key): /ʃɪp/

• Audio (UK); “a ship”:

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• Audio (US):

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• 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.

cognates

Cognate with West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, German Schiff, Yiddish שיף (shif), Danish skib, Norwegian skip, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”), Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “light boat, skiff”).

Alternative forms

• shippe (obsolete)

Noun

ship (plural ships)

A ship (senses 1 and 5).

1. (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
2. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
3. (cellular automata, chiefly in combination) A spaceship.
   • 1991 January 10, Paul Callahan, “Questions and comments about Conway's Life (long)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I don't know if there is another standard method, but the following approach works: Consider the collision of gliders from three rakes that produces a medium spaceship in the _same_ direction as the rake. This ship will follow along to the next collision point, which will not produce a spaceship, but rather some stable garbage, consisting of a block and a beehive.

   • 1995 November 12, Rich Holmes, “Totalistic spaceships”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Aside from the one ship in B3/S124 shown above, the only spaceships of this size (with period up to 20) in any of these rules are the Life glider and the three known from B2/ (each of which also is found in some variants of the Life or B2/ rules).

   • 1999 June 23, Mirek Wojtowicz, “What else has Brian in his Brain?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[3] (Usenet):

     While constructing a butterfly double gun I put one cell at the wrong site and the result was highly surprising: my pattern turned to a big, beautiful ship, very similar to those found in Aqua25 from Al Hensel's collection!

4. (cellular automata) A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
   • 1994 May 7, David Bell, “HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 1/3)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[4] (Usenet):

     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.

   • 1994 June 5, Paul Callahan, “Interesting life program”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎^[5] (Usenet):

     In the case of these "ship" neighborhoods, birth will occur at the center cell, thus deviating from the "overcrowding" rule of Life (HighLife allows such a birth in all neighborhoods containing 6 cells).

5. (archaic, nautical, formal) 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[15th century].
7. (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
8. (dated) An aircraft.
   • 1944, Wolfgang Langewiesche, Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying:

     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.

   • 1994, American Aviation Historical Society Journal, page 107:

     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."

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

• airship
• battleship
• cargo ship
• coffin ship
• container ship
• cruise ship
• escort ship
• factory ship
• fireship
• flagship
• Her Majesty's Ship
• His Majesty's Ship
• hospital ship
• lightship
• line-of-battle ship
• longship
• merchant ship
• mother ship
• motor ship
• privateer
• private ship of war
• receiving ship
• sailing ship
• ship of the line
• ship of war
• ship prefix
• sinking ship
• sister ship
• slaver
• slave ship
• spaceship
• starship
• steamship
• store ship
• supply ship
• tall ship
• tight ship
• torchship
• training ship
• transport ship
• troopship
• warship

 

• Thesaurus:watercraft

Derived terms

• abandon ship
• about ship
• air ship
• air-to-ship
• amidship
• anti-ship
• antiship, anti-ship
• anti-ship missile
• Apostolicship
• arsenal ship
• aship
• assembly ship
• astroship
• battle ship
• bioship
• blockship
• bomb ship
• 'bout ship
• burgess-ship
• cable ship
• capital ship
• cheer ship
• cityship
• country ship
• crackship
• disship
• dogship
• drillship
• drop ship
• dropship
• enship
• fire ship
• foreship
• free alongside ship
• generation ship
• ghost ship
• goddess-ship
• governess-ship
• ground-to-ship
• guardship
• guard ship
• gunship
• hateship
• headmistress-ship
• hostess-ship
• inship
• I-ship
• it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean
• jump ship
• knightship
• landing ship
• liberty ship
• light-ship
• like a rat from a sinking ship
• like rats from a sinking ship
• line of battle ship
• lodeship
• lofty ship
• make ship
• mega-ship
• megaship
• midship
• midships
• misship
• mistress-ship
• moonship
• multiship
• mystery ship
• one's ship comes in
• passenger ship
• patrol ship
• pirate ship
• planetship
• plate ship
• private ship
• Q-ship
• research ship
• right the ship
• rivalship
• rocketship
• rocket ship
• round ship
• sailship
• schoolship
• scoutship
• sealship
• seedship
• shape up or ship out
• Shipageddon
• ship ahoy
• ship a sea
• ship biscuit
• shipboard
• shipborne
• shipbound
• ship-boy
• shipbreach
• ship bread
• ship-breaker
• shipbreaker
• shipbreaking
• shipbroaker
• shipbroken
• shipbroker
• shipbroking
• ship-builder, shipbuilder
• ship-building
• shipbuilding
• ship canal
• ship chandler
• shipcraft
• ship-craft
• ship-fever
• ship fever
• shipfitter
• ship fitter
• shipfitting
• shipful
• shipfyrd
• shipgirl
• ship-gun
• shiphandler
• shiphandling
• shipholder
• shipholding
• ship in a bottle
• ship-keeper
• shipkiller
• ship-language
• shiplap
• ship-last
• ship-launch
• shipless
• shiplet
• ship letter
• shiplike
• shipling
• shipload
• ship-log
• shiplord
• shiply
• ship-man
• shipman
• shipmaster
• shipmate
• shipmistress
• ship model basin
• ship money
• ship of fools
• ship of state
• ship of the desert
• ship-of-the-line
• ship of Theseus
• ship out
• ship over
• shipowner
• shipowning
• ship-pound
• shippy
• ship railway
• ship rat
• ship-rigged
• Shiprock
• shiproom
• ship's biscuit
• ship's boat
• ship's books
• ship's company
• ship's corporal
• ship's cousin
• ship's days
• shipset
• ship's force
• ship-shape
• shipshape
• shipshed
• ship's husband
• shipside
• ship-sloop
• ship's papers
• shipspeak
• ship's steward
• ships that pass in the night
• shipstuff
• ship-timber
• shiptime
• ship-to-air
• ship-to-ground
• ship-to-ship
• ship-to-shore
• ship war
• shipward
• shipwards
• shipway
• shipwide
• shipwise
• shipwork
• shipworker
• shipworm
• shipwreck
• shipwrecker
• shipwright
• shipyard
• single-ship
• skyship
• slave ship
• sleeper ship
• space ship
• spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
• spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
• spyship
• steady the ship
• steam ship
• steam-ship
• stiffship
• storeship
• stores ship
• supership
• surface ship
• swanship
• take ship
• tankship
• that ship has already sailed
• that ship has sailed
• the captain goes down with the ship
• timeship
• towship
• tranship
• transship
• trans-ship
• treasure ship
• turret ship
• turtle ship
• twin ship
• twinship
• twin-ship
• two lamps burning and no ship at sea
• Viking ship
• weather ship
• whaleship

 

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to ship (noun)

• skiff
• skipper

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: シップ (shippu)

Translations

large water craft

• Abkhaz: аӷба (ağba)
• Afrikaans: skip (af)
• Aghwan: 𐕎𐔽𐔰 (nˁa)
• Albanian: anije (sq) f
• Ambonese Malay: kapal
• Amharic: መርከብ (märkäb), ላከ (lakä)
• Arabic: سَفِينَة (ar) f (safīna)

  Gulf Arabic: سَفينة f (səfinə)

• Armenian: նավ (hy) (nav)

  Old Armenian: նաւ (naw)

• Aromanian: naie f, cãrabie f
• Assamese: জাহাজ (zahaz)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܦܝܼܢ݇ܬܵܐ f (spīta), ܓܵܡܝܼ (gami)
• Asturian: barcu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: gəmi (az)
• Baluchi: جہاز (jaház)
• Bashkir: карап (karap)
• Basque: itsasontzi (eu)
• Belarusian: карабе́ль m (karabjélʹ), су́дна n (súdna)
• Bengali: জাহাজ (bn) (jahaj)
• Brahui: جاز (jāz)
• Bulgarian: ко́раб (bg) m (kórab), парахо́д (bg) m (parahód) (steamship)
• Burmese: သင်္ဘော (my) (sangbhau:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: корабе́ль m (korabélʹ)
• Catalan: vaixell (ca) m, nau (ca)
• Chechen: кема (kema)
• Cherokee: ᏥᏳ (tsiyu)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 船 (yue) (syun⁴)

  Dungan: чуан (čuan)

  Eastern Min: 船 (sùng)

  Gan: 船 (son³)

  Hakka: 船 (sòn)

  Hokkien: 船 (chûn / soân)

  Jin: 船 (cuan¹)

  Mandarin: 船 (zh) (chuán), 船舶 (zh) (chuánbó)

  Northern Min: 船 (ṳ̌ing)

  Wu: 船

  Xiang: 船 (jye²)

• Chuvash: карап (karap)
• Crimean Tatar: gemi
• Czech: loď (cs) f
• Danish: skib (da) n
• Dutch: schip (nl) n
• Egyptian: (dpt)
• Elfdalian: stjipp n
• Erzya: иневенч (ińevenč)
• Esperanto: ŝipo (eo)
• Estonian: laev (et)
• Faroese: skip (fo) n
• Finnish: laiva (fi)
• French: vaisseau (fr) m, bateau (fr) m, navire (fr) m
• Friulian: nâf f, nâv f
• Galician: navío (gl) m, nave (gl) f, barcia f, beote m, vaixel m
• Ge'ez: መርከብ (märkäb)
• Georgian: გემი (ka) (gemi), ხომალდი (ka) (xomaldi)
• German: Schiff (de) n
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 n (skip)
• Greek: πλοίο (el) n (ploío), καράβι (el) n (karávi)

  Ancient: ναῦς f (naûs), πλοῖον n (ploîon)

• Greenlandic: umiarsuaq
• Gujarati: જહાજ (gu) (jahāj), વહાણ n (vahāṇ)
• Hawaiian: moku
• Hebrew: סְפִינָה (he) f (sfiná), אֳנִיָּה \ אונייה (he) f (oniyá)
• Hindi: पोत (hi) m (pot), जहाज़ m (jahāz), जलयान (hi) m (jalyān)
• Hungarian: hajó (hu)
• Icelandic: skip (is) n
• Indonesian: kapal (id)
• Ingrian: alus, laiva, soimi
• Ingush: кема (kema)
• Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᐊᕐᔪᐊᖅ (omiaryoaq)
• Irish: long (ga) f, árthach m
• Italian: nave (it) f, bastimento (it) m, vascello (it) m, transatlantico (it) m, piroscafo (it) m, naviglio (it) m, battello (it) m
• Japanese: 船 (ja) (ふね, fune), 船舶 (ja) (せんぱく, senpaku)
• Javanese: kapal
• Kalmyk: керм (kerm)
• Kannada: ನೌಕೆ (kn) (nauke)
• Karelian: laiva
• Kashmiri: जहाज़ (jahāz)
• Kazakh: кеме (kk) (keme)
• Khmer: កប៉ាល់ (km) (kaʼpal), នាវា (km) (niəviə), សំពៅ (km) (sɑmpɨw)
• Korean: 배 (ko) (bae), 선박(船舶) (ko) (seonbak), 선(船) (ko) (seon) (compound)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: که‌شتی (keştî), گه‌می (gemî)

  Northern Kurdish: keştî (ku) f, gemî (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: кеме (ky) (keme)
• Ladino: nave f, vapor m
• Lao: ກຳປັ່ນ (kam pan), ເຮືອ (lo) (hư̄a)
• Latin: navis (la) f
• Latvian: kuģis m
• Lezgi: гими (gimi)
• Lithuanian: laivas (lt) m
• Lombard: nav f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Schipp (nds) n

• Lü: ᦵᦣᦲᦉᦗᧁ (hoeṡpaw)
• Luxembourgish: Schëff (lb) n
• Macedonian: брод (mk) m (brod), лаѓа (mk) f (laǵa), кораб m (korab) (literary)
• Maguindanao: kapal
• Malay: kapal (ms)
• Malayalam: കപ്പല് (kappal), നൌക (nauka)
• Maltese: vapur m (motor); ġifen m (sailing)
• Manx: lhong f
• Maori: kaipuke
• Maranao: kapal
• Marathi: जहाज (mr) (jahāj)
• Mon: က္ၜၚ်
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: усан онгоц (mn) (usan ongoc), онгоц (mn) (ongoc), хөлөг (mn) (xölög)

  Mongolian: ᠤᠰᠤᠨ
  ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠴᠠ (usun ongɣuča), ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠴᠠ (ongɣuča), ᠬᠥᠯᠭᠡ (kölge)

• Nahuatl:

  Central: acalli

  Classical: acalli

• Navajo: tsin naaʼeeł
• Neapolitan: barca f
• Nepali: जहाज (jahāj)
• Ngazidja Comorian: meli class 9/10
• Nogai: кеме (keme)
• North Frisian: (Mooring) schap n; (Föhr-Amrum) skap n, Skep n (Sylt)
• Northern Sami: skiipa, láivi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skip (no) n

  Nynorsk: skip n

• Occitan: nau (oc), vaissèl (oc) m
• Odia: ଜାହାଜ (or) (jāhāja),ବୋଇତ (or) (boita),ଗୋରାପ (or) (gorāpa)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: корабл҄ь m (korablʹĭ), корабь m (korabĭ)

• Old East Slavic: корабль m (korablĭ)
• Old English: sċip (ang) n
• Old High German: skif
• Oromo: doonii
• Ossetian: (Digor) науӕ (nawæ), (Iron) нау (naw)
• Ottoman Turkish: كمی (gemi), سفینه (sefine)
• Palauan: diall
• Pali: nāvā f
• Pannonian Rusyn: корабель m (korabelʹ), ладя f (ladja)
• Papiamentu: barco
• Pashto: کښتۍ f (kex̌tǝy), کيښتۍ f (kix̌tᶕy), بېړۍ (ps) f (beṛᶕy), ابګوټ (abgaṭ)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کَشْتی (fa) (kašti), ناو (fa) (nâv), جَهاز (fa) (jahâz), سَفینِه (fa) (safine), سُماری (fa) (somâri)

• Piedmontese: nav f
• Polish: statek (pl) m, okręt (pl) m, korab (pl) m (dated or poetic)
• Pontic Greek: καράβι (karávi)
• Portuguese: navio (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਜਹਾਜ਼ m (jahāz), ਨਾਵ (nāv)

  Shahmukhi: جَہاز m (jahāz), ناو (nāv)

• Romanian: navă (ro) f, corabie (ro) f, vas (ro) n
• Romansch: nav f, bartga f, bastiment m
• Russian: кора́бль (ru) m (koráblʹ), су́дно (ru) n (súdno), парохо́д (ru) m (paroxód) (steamship or colloquial)
• Sanskrit: नौ (sa) f (nau), नाव (sa) m (nāva), पोत (sa) m (pota)
• Santali: ᱡᱟᱦᱟᱡᱽ
• Scots: gailey
• Scottish Gaelic: long f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бро̑д m, ла̑ђа f, ко̏раб m/кора̑б m, ко̏рабаљ m/ко̏ра̄баљ m

  Roman: brȏd (sh) m, lȃđa (sh) f, kȍrāb (sh) m/korȃb (sh) m, kȍrābalj m/korȃbalj m

• Silesian: statek m
• Sindhi: جہاز
• Sinhalese: නැව (si) (næwa)
• Slovak: loď (sk) f
• Slovene: ladja (sl) f
• Somali: markab (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: łoź f

  Upper Sorbian: łódź f

• Southern Altai: кереп (kerep), кеме (keme)
• Spanish: barco (es) m, buque (es) m, nave (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: sipi
• Swahili: meli (sw), jahazi (sw)
• Swedish: skepp (sv) n, fartyg (sv) n
• Tabasaran: гими (gimi)
• Tagalog: barko (tl), daong
• Tajik: киштӣ (tg) (kišti), сафина (safina)
• Tamil: கப்பல் (ta) (kappal)
• Tarifit: aɣarrabu m
• Tatar: кораб (tt) (qorab)
• Telugu: ఓడ (te) (ōḍa), నావ (te) (nāva), నౌక (te) (nauka)
• Thai: เรือ (th) (rʉʉa), กำปั่น (th) (gam-bpàn)
• Tibetan: གྲུ་གཟིངས (gru gzings)
• Tigrinya: መርከብ (märkäb)
• Tok Pisin: sip
• Turkish: gemi (tr)
• Turkmen: gäämi, gämi, korabl, parohod
• Udmurt: корабль (korabľ)
• Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎐𐎊𐎚 (ảnyt)
• Ukrainian: корабе́ль (uk) m (korabélʹ), судно́ n (sudnó)
• Urdu: جَہاز m (jahāz), پوت (pot)
• Uyghur: پاراخوت (paraxot), كېمە (këme)
• Uzbek: kema (uz), paroxod (uz)
• Vietnamese: tàu thuỷ (vi), tàu (vi)
• Volapük: naf (vo)
• Waray-Waray: barko
• Welsh: llong (cy) f
• Yakut: хараабыл (qaraabıl)
• Yiddish: שיף f (shif)
• Zhuang: ruz

vessel which travels through any medium other than land

• Bashkir: карап (karap)
• Catalan: nau (ca) f
• Esperanto: ŝipo (eo) sg
• Finnish: alus (fi)
• German: Schiff (de) n
• Hindi: यान (hi) m (yān), विमान (hi) m (vimān)
• Hungarian: hajó (hu) (cf. léghajó, űrhajó)
• Italian: astronave (it), dirigibile (it)
• Japanese: 船 (ja) (ふね, fune)
• Old High German: skif
• Polish: statek (pl) m
• Russian: кора́бль (ru) m (koráblʹ)
• Slovak: loď (sk)
• Tibetan: གྲུ (gru) (cf. གནམ་གྲུ (airplane, lit. “sky-ship”), རླུང་གྲུ (balloon, blimp, lit. “air-ship”), འཇིག་རྟེན་འཕུར་གྲུ (spaceship, lit. “universe-flying-ship”))

Etymology 2

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

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.
   • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

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

   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

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

   to ship freight by railroad

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

   Our next issue ships early next year.

   It compiles? Ship it!

5. (transitive, intransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.

   to ship seamen

   I shipped on a man-of-war.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped, have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be; […]

6. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
   • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 563”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     I shipped with them and becoming friends, we set forth on our venture, in health and safety; and sailed with a fair wind, till we came to a city called Madínat-al-Sín; […]

7. (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.

   to ship the tiller or rudder

8. (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
   • 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 159:

     She was half in the water, a mere hulk, her rigging torn to shreds, her main mast cut away, and every sea she shipped, Melmoth could hear distinctly the dying cries of those who were swept away, or perhaps of those whose mind and body, alike exhausted, relaxed their benumbed hold of hope and life together,—knew that the next shriek that was uttered must be their own and their last.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.

   We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.

9. (colloquial, with dummy it) 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. (transitive, colloquial) To pass (from one person to another).

    Can you ship me the ketchup?

    • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:

      And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.

11. (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
12. (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.

    Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.

13. (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
    • 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:

      England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.

    • 2015 February 11, “Six Nations: Scotland raw but capable of improving”, in The Scotsman:

      They shipped penalties, lost field position, and in the second-half, having retreated to the changing room buoyed by Dougie Fife’s well-worked try, found themselves ceding two-thirds of the territory and with it, the lion’s share of the ball.

Derived terms

Terms derived from ship (verb)

• reship
• ship and let ship
• shipment
• shippability
• shippable
• shippage (rare)
• shipper
• shipping
• unship

 

Translations

to send a parcel or container

• Arabic: شَحَنَ (šaḥana)
• Azerbaijani: göndərmək (az)
• Bulgarian: изпращам (bg) (izpraštam)
• Danish: skibe c, sende (da), fragte
• Dutch: verschepen (nl), verzenden (nl), opsturen (nl), uitleveren (nl)
• Esperanto: ekspedi
• Finnish: toimittaa (fi), lähettää (fi)
• French: poster (fr), expédier (fr)
• German: verschicken (de), versenden (de)
• Greek: αποστέλλω (el) (apostéllo)
• Hungarian: szállít (hu)
• Italian: inviare (it), spedire (it)
• Japanese: 発送する (hassōsuru), 出荷する (shukkasuru)
• Macedonian: испорачува (isporačuva)
• Persian: ترابار کردن (fa) (tarâbâr kardan)
• Portuguese: mandar (pt), enviar (pt)
• Russian: отпра́вить (ru) (otprávitʹ)
• Slovak: odoslať, poslať
• Spanish: enviar (es)
• Swedish: skeppa (sv), frakta (sv)
• Telugu: రవాణా (te) (ravāṇā)
• Tibetan: དངོས་ཟོག་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་བྱེད (dngos zog skyel 'dren byed)
• Turkish: göndermek (tr)

to send by water-borne transport

• Danish: skibe c, afskibe (da), udskibe (da)
• Dutch: verschepen (nl)
• Finnish: laivata (fi), lähettää (fi)
• German: verschiffen (de)
• Greek: αποστέλλω (el) (apostéllo), μεταφέρω (el) (metaféro)
• Japanese: 海上輸送する (kaijōyusōsuru)
• Maori: kautere
• Portuguese: embarcar (pt)
• Telugu: జలమార్గ రవాణా (jalamārga ravāṇā)
• Tibetan: མཚོ་ཐོག་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་བྱེད (mtsho thog skyel 'dren byed) (lit. to transport by means of the sea)

to take in water over the sides of a vessel

• Bulgarian: загребвам вода (zagrebvam voda)
• Finnish: haukata (fi)
• Italian: imbarcare (it)

to pass from one person to another

• Dutch: doorgeven (nl)
• Finnish: ojentaa (fi)
• German: weitergeben (de)
• Italian: passarsi
• Slovak: podať

poker slang: to go all in

• Finnish: korottaa all-in, panna kaikki peliin

sports: to trade a player to another team

• Finnish: treidata

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.

Coordinate terms

• slash fiction
• slash

Derived terms

• shipfic

Translations

fictional relationship

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: CP

• Finnish: shippaus (fi)
• Hebrew: שיפ m (ship)
• Thai: คู่จิ้น (kûu-jîn)

Verb

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

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

   I ship Kirk and Spock in “Star Trek”.

   I ship Peggy and Angie in “Marvel's Agent Carter”.

   • 2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:

     I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky.

Derived terms

• shipper
• shippery

 

Translations

to support fictional relationship

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嗑CP

• Finnish: shipata (fi)
• Hungarian: shippel
• Japanese: カップリング (ja) (kappuringu)
• Polish: shipować
• Portuguese: shippar (pt)
• Russian: шипперить (ru) (šipperitʹ)
• Thai: จิ้น (th) (jîn)

Descendants

• → Spanish: shippear, shipear

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.pi/, /ˈʃip/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.pi/, /ˈʃip/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃip/, /ˈʃi.pi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃip/

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

   • 2018, MediaZ, Instagram: Giải pháp xây dựng thương hiệu và bán hàng, NXB Thế giới, page 116:

     Một số trang thường sử dụng từ "Miễn phí" trong hồ sơ của họ, có thể là miễn phí ship hàng, tư vấn miễn phí…

     Some pages tend to use the word "Free" in their files, which can mean free delivery of goods, free advice, etc.

   • 2020, Nguyễn Chu Nam Phương, Numagician: Đánh thức phù thủy trí nhớ trong bạn, NXB Đà Nẵng:

     Hình dung tôi ra bưu điện, thì thấy họ mới nâng cấp dịch vụ, cho vịt Donald đi ship hàng.

     Imagine I go to the post office and see they just upgraded their services and allow Donald Duck to send goods.

   • 2021, Lam Huynh, Nhân sinh cảm ngộ, tập 3:

     Ban đầu, cô đã giúp bạn của mình mua hàng miễn phí và cô cũng trả hộ tiền ship nhiều lần.

     At first, she helped her friend buy goods for free and many times she also paid the delivery fee for him.