| 单词 | ship |
| 释义 | ship n. & v. --n 1. a any large seagoing vessel (cf. BOAT). b a sailing-vessel with a bowsprit and three, four, or five square-rigged masts. 2. US an aircraft. 3. a spaceship. 4. colloq. a boat, esp. a racing-boat. --v (shipped, shipping) 1. tr. put, take, or send away (goods, passengers, sailors, etc.) on board ship. 2. tr. a take in (water) over the side of a ship, boat, etc. b take (oars) from the rowlocks and lay them inside a boat. c fix (a rudder etc.) in its place on a ship etc. d step (a mast). 3. intr. a take ship; embark. b (of a sailor) take service on a ship (shipped for Africa). 4. tr. deliver (goods) to a forwarding agent for conveyance. Phrases and idioms ship-breaker a contractor who breaks up old ships. ship-broker an agent in shipping goods and insuring ships. ship burial Archaeol. burial in a wooden ship under a mound. ship-canal a canal large enough for ships to pass inland. ship (or ship's) chandler see CHANDLER. ship-fever typhus. ship-money hist. a tax raised to provide ships for the navy in the 17th c. ship of the desert the camel. ship off 1. send or transport by ship. 2. colloq. send (a person) away. ship of the line hist. a large battleship fighting in the front line of battle. ship-rigged square-rigged. ship's articles the terms on which seamen take service on a ship. ship's biscuit hist. a hard coarse kind of biscuit kept and eaten on board ship. ship's boat a small boat carried on board a ship. ship's company a ship's crew. ship's corporal see CORPORAL(1) 2. ship a sea be flooded by a wave. ship's husband an agent appointed by the owners to see to the provisioning of a ship in port. ship's papers documents establishing the ownership, nationality, nature of the cargo, etc., of a ship. take ship embark. when a person's ship comes home (or in) when a person's fortune is made. Derivatives shipless adj. shippable adj. Etymology: OE scip, scipian f. Gmc |
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