ship

Meaning

Noun

1. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
2. (in-compounds) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
3. (in-compounds) A spaceship.
4. A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
5. (archaic, 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.
7. The third card of the Lenormand deck.
8. (dated) An aircraft.

Verb

1. (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
2. (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
3. (ergative) To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
4. (ergative) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
5. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
6. (transitive) To put or secure in its place.
7. (transitive) To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.
8. (colloquial) To leave, depart, scram.
9. (colloquial, ditransitive) To pass (from one person to another).
10. (ambitransitive, slang) To go all in.
11. (transitive) To trade or send (a player) to another team.
12. (transitive) To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession.

Verb

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

Synonyms

boat

⛵

vessel

send

transport

craft

dispatch

canoe

🛶

embark

watercraft

send off

deliver

board

load

convey

forward

barge

big boat

yacht

supply

take

carry

haul

lade

post

despatch

steamboat

consign

large boat

steamship

shipping

ship’s

raft

office

🏢

airplane

✈️

get into

drive

marine

frigate

broadcast

get

nave

embark on

take away

dhow

bring

depurate

aisle

crew

fly

✈️

corvette

Translations

Schiff

navire

🚢

bateau

barco

⛵

schip

🚢

navio

🚢

nave

🚢

vaisseau

🚢

nave

🚢

πλοίο

navis

🚢

embarcación

buque

🚢

vaixell

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ship

Inherited from Old English: sċip

Cognate with Western Frisian: skip

Cognate with Dutch: schip

Cognate with German: Schiff

Cognate with Yiddish: שיף

Cognate with Danish: skib

Cognate with Norwegian: skip

Cognate with Swedish: skepp

Cognate with Lithuanian: skiẽbti

Cognate with Latvian: skibit

Cognate with Ancient Greek: σκάφη

Inherited from Middle English: schippen

Inherited from Old English: sċipian

In summary

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”).
Compare typologically boat, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-.