ship

Meaning

Noun

1. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
2. A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
3. A spaceship.
4. A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
5. 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. An aircraft.

Verb

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɪp/

Etymology

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”).