to ship
- verb
- /ʃɪp/
- Yet O'Neill knew the working class intimately, having shipped out on tramp steamers and labored in mines in Honduras.
Examples
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I have to ship out in the morning to fight the Nazis, so you better give me something to remember.
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Think you can be ready to ship out in the morning?
Fiction book (1992) -
So, uh, can I ship out?
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By the time he was ready to ship out, the fighting was over.
Fiction book (1998) -
We were on our way to see his parents before he ships off... tell them the news.
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My squadron ships out tomorrow.
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So he came back to New Orleans and shipped out in thirty days for a second tour.
Fiction book (1990) -
If you don't do this, I'll be shipped off to India.
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Soon afterward, my grandfather enlisted in the military and was shipped to Europe.
Academic text (2009) -
The crew members were excited as they prepared to ship out for their journey across the Atlantic Ocean.
Synonyms
To travel on water in a boat, often using large fabric to catch wind
To get on a ship, plane, or other vehicle to begin a journey
To work on a vehicle like a ship or plane as part of the team
To travel on water in a small vehicle like a rowboat or motorboat
To travel by ship or boat over a long distance
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To join a business or project that is likely to fail even though there are clear risks
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
Turn a sailing boat away from the wind by moving the back through the wind, not the front
Compounds
A large ship that carries people on holiday trips with places to sleep and entertainment
- NSFW
A ship that carried people taken from their homelands to be forced to work across the Atlantic in the past
- Archaic
A large slow cargo ship built in the United States during World War Two to carry supplies and troops
- Specialized
A military ship that moves and fights on the water's surface, not underwater
- Specialized
A very large warship like a battleship or aircraft carrier with heavy weapons
- Archaic
A large warship that fights in the main line of ships in sea battles from the 1600s to the 1800s
- Specialized
A spacecraft that delivers food, equipment, and spare parts to a space station
- Specialized
A person who arranges for ships to carry cargo or for owners to rent their ships
- Specialized
A device pulled behind a ship that listens for submarines from far away
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ship (to travel by sea or work on a ship) comes from the same old word scip for a sea boat, so to 'ship' once meant to go on or serve on a ship and still means to travel by sea or join a ship's crew.