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Noun: ship  ship
  1. A vessel that carries passengers or freight
     
  2. A spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)
    - starship, spaceship
Verb: ship (shipped,shipping)  ship
  1. Move goods commercially
    - transport, send
     
  2. Hire for work on a ship
     
  3. Go on board
    - embark
     
  4. Travel by ship
     
  5. Place on board a ship
    "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"
     
  6. Take in water over the sides of a boat
Noun suffix: -ship  ship
  1. Office or profession
     
  2. Skill in something
     
  3. State or condition
    - -dom, -hood, -ness

Derived forms: ships, shipping, shipped

Type of: ballistic capsule, board, displace, employ, engage, get on, hire, journey, lay, move, place, pose, position, put, set, space vehicle, spacecraft, travel, vessel, watercraft

Antonym: debark

Part of: fleet

Encyclopedia: Ship, Jonathan

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