ship
verbEtymology 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.
12 senses
- 1To send by water-borne transport.
- 2To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any…
- 3To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to…
- 4To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- 5To embark on a ship.
- 6To put or secure in its place.
- 7To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- 8To leave, depart, scram.
- 9To pass (from one person to another).
- 10To go all in.
- 11To trade or send (a player) to another team.
- 12To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the…
1
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.1603, Richard Knolles, “The Life of Solyman, the Fourth and Most Magnificent Emperour of the Turkes”, in The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 670:
- 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.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
2
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.
1 more example
- 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;[…]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
5
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; […]1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 563”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
- 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.1846, editorial staff, “Maudslay's Improvements in propelling Machinery”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 100:
7
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.1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 159:
- But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
1 more example
- We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.
8
Colloquial, With dummy it To leave, depart, scram.
- Douglas: Sorry girls, you better go. Girls! Ship it!2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
9
Colloquial 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.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
10
Card games, Poker Ambitransitive, Slang To go all in.
11
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To trade or send (a player) to another team.
- Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.
12
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Rugby, Sports 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.2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
- 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.2015 February 11, “Six Nations: Scotland raw but capable of improving”, in The Scotsman:
- Derived terms
- reship, ship and let ship, shipment, shippability, shippable, shippage, shipper, shipping, short-ship, unship