different between berry vs ship

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??i/, enPR: b?'ri
• Rhymes: -?ri
• Homophones: bury, Barry (in accents with the Mary–marry–merry merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English berye, from Old English ber?e, from Proto-West Germanic *ba?i, from Proto-Germanic *bazj?.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær.

The slang sense “police car” may come from the lights on the vehicles’ roofs.

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
2. (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
3. A coffee bean.
4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish.

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5. (slang, US, African-American) A police car.
6. (US, slang, dated) A dollar.
   • 1921, Collier's (volume 67, page 365)

     Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!

Usage notes

Many fruits commonly regarded as berries, such as strawberries and raspberries, are not berries in the botanical sense, while many fruits which are berries in the botanical sense are not regarded as berries in common parlance, such as bananas and pumpkins.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (ber?)
• ? Thai: ??????? (b??-rîi)

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References

Verb

berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)

1. To pick berries.

   On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.
2. To bear or produce berries.

Usage notes

• Unlikely to be used to refer to commercial harvesting of berries.

Derived terms

• berrying

Etymology 2

From Middle English ber?e, berghe, from Old English beor?e, dative form of beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain, hill”). More at barrow.

Alternative forms

• berye, berie

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bery (“a burrow”). More at burrow.

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
2. An excavation; a military mine.

Etymology 4

From Middle English beryen, berien, from Old English *berian (found only in past participle ?ebered (“crushed, kneaded, harassed, oppressed, vexed”)), from Proto-West Germanic *barjan, from Proto-Germanic *barjan? (“to beat, hit”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (“to rip, cut, split, grate”).

Cognate with Scots berry, barry (“to thresh, thrash”), German beren (“to beat, knead”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), Latin feri? (“strike, hit”, verb).

Verb

berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)

1. (transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
2. (transitive) To thresh (grain).

Anagrams

• Bryer

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?p, IPA^(key): /??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English ship, schip, from Old English s?ip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?, from Proto-Indo-European *sk?yb-, *skib-. More at shift.

Alternative forms

• shippe (obsolete)

Noun

ship (plural ships)

1. (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
2. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
3. (computing, mathematics, chiefly in combination) A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
4. (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
5. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

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6. (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.

Usage notes

• The singular form ship is sometimes used without any article, producing such sentences as "In all, we spent three weeks aboard ship." and "Abandon ship!". (Similar patterns may be seen with many place nouns, such as camp, home, work, and school, but the details vary between them.)
• Ships were traditionally regarded as feminine and the pronouns her and she are still sometimes used instead of it.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English s?ipian, from Proto-Germanic *skip?n?, from Proto-Germanic *skip? (“ship”).

Verb

ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)

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

   • The timber was […] shipped in the bay of Attalia, […] from whence it was by sea transported to Palusium.
3. (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).

4. (transitive, intransitive) To release a product to vendors; to launch.

5. (transitive, intransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 19:

     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; […]

6. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:

     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; […]

7. (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.

8. (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 159:

     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.

9. (transitive) To pass (from one person to another).
10. (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
11. (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.

12. (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.

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Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of relationship.

Noun

ship (plural ships)

1. (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional.

Derived terms

• shipfic

Coordinate terms

• slash fiction
• slash

Translations

Verb

ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)

1. (fandom slang) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, typically in fan fiction.
   • 2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin (?ISBN)

     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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• -ship

Further reading

• Shipping (fandom) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, pish

Middle English

Noun

ship (plural shipes or ships)

1. Alternative form of schip

Vietnamese

Etymology

Clipping of English shipping.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [sip???]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?ip????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?ip???] ~ [sip???]
• Phonetic: síp

Verb

ship

1. to ship (goods to customers), to make a delivery

   Synonym: giao