ship

noun

1. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
2. (in-compounds)A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
3. (in-compounds)A spaceship.

   “I don't know if there is another standard method, but the following approach works: Consider the collision of gliders from three rakes that produces a medium spaceship in the _same_ direction as the rake. This ship will follow along to the next collision point, which will not produce a spaceship, but rather some stable garbage, consisting of a block and a beehive.”

   “Aside from the one ship in B3/S124 shown above, the only spaceships of this size (with period up to 20) in any of these rules are the Life glider and the three known from B2/ (each of which also is found in some variants of the Life or B2/ rules).”

   “While constructing a butterfly double gun I put one cell at the wrong site and the result was highly surprising: my pattern turned to a big, beautiful ship, very similar to those found in Aqua25 from Al Hensel's collection!”

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

   “But there are no ships, and no natural traffic lights or honey farms. The ship self destructs, and the predecessors to the traffic lights and honey farms self-destruct in spectacular manners.”

   “In the case of these "ship" neighborhoods, birth will occur at the center cell, thus deviating from the "overcrowding" rule of Life (HighLife allows such a birth in all neighborhoods containing 6 cells).”

5. (archaic, formal)A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
6. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
7. The third card of the Lenormand deck.
8. (dated)An aircraft.

   “This means that the landing wheels are not so far forward of the ship's center of gravity ; and that means that ground contact is less likely to produce a bounce.”

   “In addition to the four NAA pilots, three Air Force and one RAF pilot, all based at Edwards, flew the ship after first being checked out on the "tether rig."”

9. (slang)A pairing of two or more characters or real people that fans imagine or interpret as being in a romantic relationship.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncommon)Clipping of relationship.

    “Along the way, I have developed a few rules. When you’re seeing someone, it is only polite to hit pause on these ex-ships, or at least dial them back.”

verb

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

   “All the timber whereof, was […] ſhipped in the bay of Attalia[…], from whence it was by ſea tranſported to Pelusium.”

   “One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.”

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

   “to ship freight by railroad”

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.”

   “With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped, have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be;[…]”

5. (intransitive)To embark on a ship.

   “I shipped with them and becoming friends, we set forth on our venture, in health and safety; and sailed with a fair wind, till we came to a city called Madínat-al-Sín; […]”

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

   “to ship the tiller or rudder”

   “To the upper part of the frame a chain is attached, and if the screw shaft be drawn back out of the boss, the square frame may be hove up by carrying the chain to a winch—the sliding block maintaining the frame in the perpendicular position. By the use of this contrivance, therefore, the screw may be shipped or unshipped with facility.”

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

   “She was half in the water, a mere hulk, her rigging torn to shreds, her main mast cut away, and every sea she shipped, Melmoth could hear distinctly the dying cries of those who were swept away, or perhaps of those whose mind and body, alike exhausted, relaxed their benumbed hold of hope and life together,—knew that the next shriek that was uttered must be their own and their last.”

   “But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.”

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

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

   “Douglas: Sorry girls, you better go. Girls! Ship it!”

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

   “Can you ship me the ketchup?”

   “And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.”

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.

    “England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.”

    “They shipped penalties, lost field position, and in the second-half, having retreated to the changing room buoyed by Dougie Fife’s well-worked try, found themselves ceding two-thirds of the territory and with it, the lion’s share of the ball.”

13. (slang, transitive)To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.

    “I ship Kirk and Spock in Star Trek.”

    “I ship Peggy and Angie in Marvel's Agent Carter.”

    “I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky.”