shipnoun [ C ]
uk/ʃɪp/us/ʃɪp/A2 a large boat for travelling on water, especially across the sea:
a sailing ship
a merchant/naval ship
They boarded (= went on to) a ship that was sailing (= leaving) the next day.
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- The crane lifted the container off the ship.
- We spent two months aboard ship .
- The ship sank slowly to the depths of the ocean.
- Hundreds of people turned up to see the ship dock at Southampton.
- The ship was flying the Spanish flag.
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Passenger, cargo & military ships
- car ferry
- clipper
- cruise ship
- factory ship
- ferry
- freighter
- galleon
- galley
- ghost ship
- hovercraft
- icebreaker
- merchant marine
- merchant navy
- oil tanker
- steamer
- steamship
- sub
- submarine
- tanker
- trawler
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Idiom(s)
like ships that pass in the night
shipverb [ T usually + adv/prep ]
uk/ʃɪp/us/ʃɪp/-pp-to send something, usually a large object or a large quantity of objects or people, to a place far away:
We ship books out to New York every month.
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- Her books and clothes were packed into chests and shipped across to Canada.
- Millions of live animals are shipped around the world each year.
- The goods are then shipped across the Atlantic.
- Products like this are routinely shipped to the four corners of the earth.
- It's cheaper to ship goods than it is to fly them.
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Delivering and despatching
- air drop
- air-dash
- airlift
- consign
- containerize
- despatch
- drop
- enclose
- fire
- fire sth off
- forward
- get sth in
- reroute
- route
- send
- send sth in
- send sth off
- shipping
- trot
- trot sb out
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Phrasal verb(s)
ship sb off