schip

Meaning

1. (neuter) ship (a large, water borne vessel)
2. (neuter) nave (the middle or body of a standard medieval church or cathedral, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances)

Concepts

ship

🚢

vessel

boat

⛵

nave

yacht

barge

overalls

rowing boat

sail

skiff

smock

barc

seacraft

aisle

ship

🚢

barque

beck

craft

drogue

hoy

Synonyms

boot

⛵

vaartuig

zeeschip

schuit

aak

bark

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sxɪp/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch schip, scip, schep, from Old Dutch *skip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip.
cognates
Cognate with Low German Schipp, West Frisian skip, German Schiff, Yiddish שיף (shif), English ship, Danish skib, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian to cut, lop.

Sentences

Een kapitein verlaat als laatste zijn schip .

A captain is the last to leave his ship.

Het schip lag voor anker aan de kade .

The ship was anchored at the quay.

Ze deden een poging om de man van het zinkende schip te redden .

They made an attempt to rescue the man from the sinking ship.

Het schip was vastgelopen in de baai en de opvarenden moesten gered worden met sloepen .

The ship was stranded in the bay and the passengers had to be rescued with sloops.