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bring
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b???/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan (“to bring, lead, bring forth, carry, adduce, produce, present, offer”), from Proto-Germanic *bringan? (“to bring”) (compare West Frisian bringe, Low German bringen, Dutch brengen, German bringen), from Proto-Indo-European *b?renk- (compare Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”)).
Verb
bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past and past participle brought)
- (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
- (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
- “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
- The controversial TV broadcast brought a storm of complaints.
- (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- It seems so preposterous a thing […] that they do not easily bring themselves to it.
- To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- Past brang and past participle brung and broughten forms are sometimes used in some dialects, especially in informal speech.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Onomatopeia.
Interjection
bring
- The sound of a telephone ringing.
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
- breng (archaic)
Etymology
From Dutch bringen, a dialectal variant of standard brengen (“to bring”). Both forms were originally distinct, though related, verbs, but were early on conflated.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /br??/
Verb
bring (present bring, present participle bringende, past participle gebring)
- (transitive) to bring; to deliver
- (transitive) to take; to lead (to another place)
- Bring asseblief hierdie borde kombuis toe.
- Please, take these dishes to the kitchen.
- Bring asseblief hierdie borde kombuis toe.
Derived terms
- uitbring
- wegbring
Danish
Verb
bring
- imperative of bringe
Garo
Etymology
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Noun
bring
- jungle, forest
German
Pronunciation
Verb
bring
- imperative singular of bringen
Middle English
Verb
bring
- Alternative form of bryngen
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian bringa, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bringan?. Cognates include West Frisian bringe.
Verb
bring
- (Föhr-Amrum), (Heligoland) to bring
Conjugation
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
bring
- imperative of bringe
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /br??/
Verb
bring (third-person singular present brings, present participle bringin, past brocht, past participle brocht)
- To bring.
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ship
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)
- (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
- (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- (computing, mathematics, chiefly in combination) A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
- (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Tyndale to this entry?)
- (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.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
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)
- (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.
- (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- (transitive, intransitive) To release a product to vendors; to launch.
- (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; […]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 19:
- (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; […]
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.
- (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.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 159:
- (transitive) To pass (from one person to another).
- (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
- (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
- (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of relationship.
Noun
ship (plural ships)
- (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)
- (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.
- 2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin (?ISBN)
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)
- 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
- to ship (goods to customers), to make a delivery
- Synonym: giao
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