Meaning

9 senses
  1. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.

    Schiff

    кора́бльkoráblʹ, су́дноsúdno, парохо́дparoxód

    корабе́льkorabélʹ, судно́sudnó

  2. (in compounds)A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.

    Schiff

    кора́бльkoráblʹ

  3. (in compounds)A spaceship.

  4. A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.

  5. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

  6. The third card of the Lenormand deck.

  7. (dated)An aircraft.

  8. (slang)A romantic pairing of two or more characters or real people, especially one imagined by fans.

  9. (archaic, formal)A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.

More definitions
  • a vessel that carries passengers or freight

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

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
large water craft:
Русский
By meaning 1
large water craft:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
large water craft:

Origin

From Middle English chip, schepe, schip, schup, scip, scippe, ship, shup, ssip, from Old E

From Middle English chip, schepe, schip, schup, scip, scippe, ship, shup, ssip, from Old English sċip, sċyp, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship; tub, vessel”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). More at shift.

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Forms

plural: ships
Singularship
Pluralships

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

183 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

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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