Meaning

13 senses
  1. (transitive)To send by water-borne transport.

    verschiffen

    transport commercially

  2. (transitive)To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).

    to ship freight by railroad

    verschicken, versenden

    отпра́витьotprávitʹ

  3. (ergative)To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.

    Our next issue ships early next year.

    It compiles? Ship it!

  4. (ergative)To engage to serve on board a vessel.

    to ship seamen

    I shipped on a man-of-war.

    go on board

  5. (intransitive)To embark on a ship.

    travel by ship

  6. (transitive)To put or secure in its place.

    to ship the tiller or rudder

    place on board a ship

  7. (transitive)To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.

    We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.

  8. (colloquial)To leave, depart, scram.

  9. (colloquial, ditransitive)To pass (from one person to another).

    Can you ship me the ketchup?

    weitergeben

    передаватьperedavatʹ

  10. (ambitransitive, slang)To go all in.

  11. (transitive)To trade or send (a player) to another team.

    Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.

  12. (transitive)To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession.

Examples

1430 sentences
  1. I work for a shipping company.

    Я працюю у транспортній компанії. — deniko

    ruЯ работаю в транспортной компании. — Biga

    deIch arbeite für eine Reederei. — Yorwba

  2. The captain controls the whole ship.

    Капітан керує цілим кораблем. — leyla

    ruКапитан контролирует весь корабль. — Lenin_1917

    deDer Kapitän kontrolliert das ganze Schiff. — xtofu80

  3. I'm the captain of this ship.

    Я капітан цього корабля. — deniko

    ruЯ капитан этого корабля. — Selena777

    deIch bin der Kapitän dieses Schiffes. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. I wonder who named this ship.

    Цікаво, хто дав цьому кораблю назву? — deniko

    ruИнтересно, кто назвал этот корабль. — odexed

  5. Where did that ship come from?

    Звідки прибув цей корабель? — deniko

    deWoher ist das Schiff gekommen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to send a parcel or container:
to pass from one person to another:
to support fictional relationship:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to send by water-borne transport:
to send a parcel or container:
to pass from one person to another:

Origin

From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-West Germanic

From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-West Germanic *skipōn, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”). Doublet of equip.

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Forms

ships, shipping, shipped, shipped
Base formship · to ship
3rd person singularships
Present participleshipping
Past simpleshipped
Past participleshipped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyship
he, she, itships

Past simpleLesson

all personsshipped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave shipped
he, she, ithas shipped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill ship

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

19 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • board the ship
  • aboard the ship
  • on the ship
  • on this ship
  • to the ship
  • the ship sank
  • ship that sank
  • sinking ship
  • ship sank
  • on a ship
  • the ship that
  • of the ship

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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