Definitions for ship

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IPA: /ʃɪp/

Ship is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in ship (hips).

Definitions for ship

noun

1. a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
2. Nautical. a sailing vessel square-rigged on all of three or more masts, having jibs, staysails, and a spanker on the aftermost mast. Now Rare. a bark having more than three masts. Compare shipentine.
3. the crew and, sometimes, the passengers of a vessel:
4. an airship, airplane, or spacecraft.
5. a romantic relationship between fictional characters, especially one that people discuss, write about, or take an interest in, whether or not the romance actually exists in the original book, show, etc.:

Idioms

1. jump ship, to escape from a ship, especially one in foreign waters or a foreign port, as to avoid further service as a sailor or to request political asylum. to withdraw support or membership from a group, organization, cause, etc.; defect or desert:
2. run a tight ship, to exercise a close, strict control over a ship's crew, a company, organization, or the like.
3. when one's ship comes in / home, when one's fortune is assured:

Verb phrases

1. ship out, to leave, especially for another country or assignment: to send away, especially to another country or assignment. Informal. to quit, resign, or be fired from a job:

verb (used with object)

1. to put or take on board a ship or other means of transportation; to send or transport by ship, rail, truck, plane, etc.
2. Nautical. to take in (water) over the side, as a vessel does when waves break over it.
3. to bring (an object) into a ship or boat.
4. to engage (someone) for service on a ship.
5. to fix in a ship or boat in the proper place for use.
6. to place (an oar) in proper position for rowing. Compare boat (def 10).
7. to send away:

verb (used without object)

1. to go on board or travel by ship; embark.
2. to engage to serve on a ship.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to discuss, write about, or take an interest in a romantic relationship between (fictional characters):

Origin of ship

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English scip; cognate with Dutch schip, German Schiff, Old Norse, Gothic skip; (v.) Middle English s(c)hip(p)en, derivative of the noun

Examples for ship

"It is a pity some of his friends were not here," said the captain of the ship that had rescued him.

The last body finally was recovered from the bowels of the ship in October.

I summoned him to an interview, and informed him in decided terms that I must be master in my own ship.

No; I stole one of the ship's boats, and came for you without leave.

If you don't know my position on board this ship, it's time you found it out!

Thirty-two people died when he ran his ship onto the rocks off Tuscany in 2012.

He didn't go on board till the morning on which the ship was to sail.

Can you imagine flying to Venus in an Apollo-era ship based on the same technology, as some NASA people proposed?

There was one bathroom on the ship, and there were no showers or beds.

He was the commander of the ship when it crashed and he admits his decision to take the ship off course.