ship
noun
1 ship
A vessel that carries passengers or freight.
Roget 267: navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship etc. 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron. natation†, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail. aerostation†, aerostatics†, aeronautics; balloonery†; balloon etc. 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation†; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting. voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus†; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway. mariner etc. 269. flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift. ... show more
Roget 273: ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom. navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping. man of war etc. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship†; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala†; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound. ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine†; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree [Fr.]; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy†, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse†, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop [Coll.], nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau [Can.], broadhorn†, dory, droger†, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot†; shallop†, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble†, punt, cog, kedge, lerret†; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan†; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame†; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel†, caravel; felucca, caique†, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist†; bilander†, dogger†, hooker, howker†; argosy, carack†; galliass†, galleon; polacca†, polacre†, tartane†, junk, lorcha†, praam†, proa†, prahu†, saick†, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah†; nuggah†; kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme†, trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan†, wangan [U.S.], wharf boat. balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane†; hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute. jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft. ... show more
Roget 271: carrier, porter, bearer, tranter†, conveyer; cargador†; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor, locomotive, motor. beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab†, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway†, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument†, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer†; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran†, garron†; jennet, genet†, bayard†, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho†, cayuse [U.S.]; creature, critter [U.S.]; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler†; stud. Pegasus, Bucephalus, Rocinante. ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy†, ladino [U.S.]; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon. [object used for carrying] pallet, brace, cart, dolley; support etc. 215; fork lift. carriage etc. (vehicle) 272; ship etc. 273. ... show more
is a specific kind of: vessel, watercraft.
is a broader term that covers: abandoned ship, derelict | blockade-runner | cargo ship, cargo vessel | flagship | gas-turbine ship | hospital ship | hulk | iceboat, icebreaker | lightship | minelayer | minesweeper | nuclear-powered ship | passenger ship | pirate, pirate ship | school ship, training ship | shipwreck | sister ship | slave ship | small ship | steamer, steamship | supply ship, tender | three-decker | transport ship | treasure ship | troopship | combat ship, war vessel, warship | whaler, whaling ship | wreck ... show more.
instances of which are: Bounty, H.M.S. Bounty | Mayflower.
has as a part: bay | bilge pump | bilge well | bulkhead | bulwark | cargo area, cargo deck, cargo hold, hold, storage area | crow's nest | davit | deck | fin | fo'c'sle, forecastle | funnel | caboose, cookhouse, galley, ship's galley | gyrostabiliser, gyrostabilizer | helm | log | lubber's hole | porthole | ratlin, ratline | ridge rope | riding bitt | screw, screw propeller | drogue, sea anchor | mainsheet, sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet | frame, skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe | spar | after part, poop, quarter, stern, tail | superstructure | top | topside | winch, windlass ... show more.
is a member of: fleet.
domain member category: lurch, pitch, pitching | auxiliary boiler, donkey boiler | auxiliary engine, donkey engine | belaying pin | bitt, bollard | brig | engine room, engineering | magnetic mine | planking | embrasure, port, porthole | sick berth, sickbay | beam | log | destabilization | foundering, going under | harborage, harbourage | messmate | drift | leeway | trim | carvel-built | clincher-built, clinker-built, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streak, lap-streaked | broken-backed, hogged | astern ... show more.
Dutch: kiel, schip
Polish: statek wodny, statek
verb
1 ship
Transport commercially.
Roget 270: transfer, transmit, transport, transplace†, transplant, translocate; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote [U.S.]; port, import, export. send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose etc. (interchange) 148; displace etc. 185; throw etc. 284; drag etc. 285; mail, post. shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon. ... show more
is a specific kind of: displace, move.
is a broader term that covers: barge | railroad | despatch, dispatch, send off | forward, send on.
derivation: despatch, dispatch, shipment | shipping, transport, transportation | cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment | shipper | shipper.
Dutch: doorgeven, verschepen
2 ship
3 ship
Go on board.
synonym: embark.
is a specific kind of: board, get on.
is a broader term that covers: emplane, enplane.
is the opposite of: debark, disembark, set down.
derivation: boarding, embarkation, embarkment | shipn1.
Dutch: embarkeren, inschepen
4 ship
5 ship
Place on board a ship.
Moby thesaurus: Graf Zeppelin, address, aeroplane, aerostat, air-express, aircraft, airfreight, airmail, airplane, airship, argosy, ark, avion, back, bag, balance rudder, ballonet, balloon, barge, barrel, bathyscaphe, batten, beak, beakhead, beam, bilge keelson, bitt, blimp, board, boat, bollard, bollard timber, bottle, bow, box, bracket plate, bridge, bulkhead, bulwarks, burden, bus, cam cleat, can, capstan, caravel, cargo ship, carling, carry, cart, casemate, cathead, ceiling, centerboard, cleat, coach, coast guard cutter, coaster, collier, companion, companionway, conning tower, consign, counter, crate, cutter, cutwater, daggerboard, davit, deadwood, deliver, depart, derelict, direct, dirigible, dirigible balloon, dislocate, dispatch, disturb, dray, dredge, drop a letter, embark, entrance, expedite, export, express, fantail, ferry, figurehead, fill, fishing boat, float, flying machine, forefoot, foresheets, foretop, forward, frame, freeboard, freight, freighter, futtock, gangplank, gangway, garboard strake, gasbag, get out, gudgeon, gunnel, gunwale, hatch, hatchway, haul, hawse, hawse timber, hawsehole, hawsepiece, hawsepipe, head, heap, heap up, heavier-than-air craft, heel, hydrofoil, icebreaker, island, keel, keel and keelson, keelson, kevel, kite, knee, lade, larboard, lash, leave, lee, lee side, leeward, lighter, lighter-than-air craft, lightship, liner, load, mail, maintop, mass, merchant ship, merchantman, mizzentop, move, nose, ocean liner, oiler, pack, pack away, packet, packet boat, paddle steamer, paddle wheel, picket ship, pile, pintle, plane, planking, pocket, poop, port, porthole, portside, post, propeller, prow, pulpit, quit, raft, rail, refrigeration ship, remit, remove, revenue cutter, rib, rigid airship, rotor, rotor ship, route, rubrail, rudder, rudderpost, rudderstock, run, sack, scram, screw steamer, scupper, scuttle, scuttlebutt, self-propelled barge, semirigid airship, send, send away, send forth, send off, set sail, shaft tunnel, sheave hole, sheer strake, sheets, shelf, shelfpiece, shift, ship out, side-wheeler, skeg, slaver, sled, sledge, snorkel, spar-decker, stack, stanchion, starboard, steam schooner, steam yacht, steamer, stem, stern, stern-wheeler, store, storeship, stow, strake, superstructure, tail end, take off, tanker, tender, tiller, tramp steamer, transfer, transmit, transom, transport, trawler, truck, turbine, van, vessel, wagon, waterline, waterway, weather, weather ship, weather side, weatherboard, whaler, wheel, wheelbarrow, winch, windlass, windward, zeppelin ... show more.
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