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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English skif (1575), from Old English scip. Cognate with West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, German Schiff, Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Norwegian skip, and Icelandic skip. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skipam.
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Singular
ship
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Plural
ships
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ship (plural ships)
- water-borne vessel larger than a boat.
- (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three square-rigged masts.
[edit] Usage notes
- The singular form ship is often 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 from noun to noun.)
- Ships are traditionally regarded as feminine and the pronouns her and she are normally used instead of it.
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Terms derived from the noun ship
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large water vessel
- Albanian: anije sq(sq)
- Arabic: سفينة (safína)
- Armenian: նավ hy(hy) (nav)
- Old Armenian: նաւ hy(hy) (naw)
- Azeri: gəmi az(az)
- Bosnian: brod bs(bs) m., lađa bs(bs) f.
- Bulgarian: кораб bg(bg) (korab) m., параход bg(bg) (parahod) m.
- Chinese: 船 (chuán)
- Croatian: brȏd hr(hr) m., lȃđa hr(hr) f.
- Czech: loď cs(cs) f.
- Danish: skib da(da)
- Dutch: schip nl(nl) n.
- Esperanto: ŝipo eo(eo)
- Estonian: laev et(et)
- Finnish: laiva fi(fi), alus fi(fi)
- French: vaisseau fr(fr) m., bateau fr(fr) m., navire fr(fr) m.
- Georgian: გემი ka(ka) (gemi)
- German: Schiff de(de) n.
- Greek: πλοίο el(el) (plío) n., καράβι el(el) (karávi) n., ναυς el(el) (nafs) f. (obsolete), σκάφος el(el) (skáfos) n.
- Hawaiian: moku
- Hebrew: אונייה he(he) ('oniyyáh) f. (in various spellings)
- Hindi: पोत hi(hi) (pot) m., जहाज़ hi(hi) (jahāz) m.
- Hungarian: hajó hu(hu)
- Indonesian: kapal id(id)
- Irish: long ga(ga) f., árthach ga(ga) m.
- Italian: nave it(it) f.
- Japanese: 船 ja(ja) (fune), 船舶 ja(ja) (senpaku)
- Korean: 배 (bae), 선박 (seonbak)
- Kurdish: پاپۆڕ
- Latin: navis la(la) f.
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- Latvian: kuģis m.
- Lithuanian: laivas lt(lt) m.
- Low Saxon (Low German): Schipp nds(nds) n.
- Macedonian: брод mk(mk) (brod) m., лаѓа mk(mk) (láǵa) f.
- Malayalam: കപ്പല് (kappal), നൌക (nouka)
- Marathi: जहाज mr(mr) (jahāj)
- Norwegian: skip no(no) n.
- Old English: scip ang(ang) n., cēol ang(ang) m., bāt ang(ang) m., naca ang(ang) m., sundwudu ang(ang) m.
- Ossetian:
- Digor: науæ (nauæ)
- Iron: нау (nau)
- Persian: کشتی fa(fa) (kašti), جهاز fa(fa) (jahâz)
- Polish: statek pl(pl) m., okręt pl(pl) m.
- Portuguese: navio pt(pt) m.
- Russian: корабль m. (korábl’), судно (súdno) n.
- Scots: gailey
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: брод sr(sr) m., лађа sr(sr) f.
- Roman: brod sr(sr) m., lađa sr(sr) f.
- Slovene: ladja sl(sl) f.
- Spanish: barco es(es) m., buque es(es) m., nave es(es) f.
- Swedish: skepp n., fartyg n.
- Tamil: கப்பல் ta(ta) (kappal)
- Telugu: ఓడ te(te)(ODa)నావ te(te)(nAva)
- Turkish: gemi tr(tr)
- Ukrainian: корабель (korabél’) m.
- Urdu: جہاز ur(ur) (jahāz) m.
- Volapük: naf vo(vo)
- Welsh: llong f.
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to ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)
- (transitive) To send a parcel or container to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
- (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.
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send a parcel or container
send by water-borne transport
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