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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.
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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.
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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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barnacle
English
Etymology
From Middle English barnakille, from earlier bernake, bernekke, from Old Northern French bernaque (“barnacle”) (compare French barnache), from Medieval Latin barneca (“limpet”), from Gaulish (compare Welsh brennig, Irish báirneac), from Proto-Celtic *barin?kos, from *barin? (“rock, rocky ground”) (compare Old Irish barenn (“boulder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *g?r?H- (“hill, mountain”) + Proto-Celtic *-?kos, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-?os; for sense development, compare Ancient Greek ????? (lépas, “rock”) which gave ????? (lepás, “limpet”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??n?kl?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b??n?kl?/
- Hyphenation: bar?na?cle
Noun
barnacle (plural barnacles)
- A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
- Hypernyms: arthropod, crustacean
- The barnacle goose.
- (engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
- (computing, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
- (software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
- Synonym: twitch
- (archaic, Britain, slang, in the plural) A pair of spectacles.
- (slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
- (slang) A worldly sailor.
- Synonym: shellback
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Translations
Verb
barnacle (third-person singular simple present barnacles, present participle barnacling, simple past and past participle barnacled)
- To connect with or attach.
- 2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 178:
- Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.
- 2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 178:
- To press close against something.
- 2002, Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada (2002), ?ISBN, page 16:
- He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.
- 2002, Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada (2002), ?ISBN, page 16:
See also
- limpet
Further reading
- barnacle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) , “Barnacle”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.
- barnacle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- barnacle (slang) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- balancer
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