different between ship vs tanker

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

English

Etymology

tank +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæ?k?(r)/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?(r)

Noun

tanker (plural tankers)

1. (nautical) A tank ship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
2. (automotive, US) A tank truck.
3. (automotive, Britain) A fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker.
4. (aviation, usually military) An aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.

5. (aviation, firefighting) An aircraft built or modified to carry water and/or fire retardant for dropping on wildfires.

6. (rail transport) A tank car
7. (military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
   • 2014, Michael Green, American Tanks & AFVs of World War II, Bloomsbury Publishing (?ISBN), page 70:

     On February 19, 1943, American tankers felt the full wrath of the German Army in North Africa when its tank-led spearhead punched a 2-mile-wide hole through American lines at Faid Pass in Tunisia, […]

8. (surfing slang) A longboard.

   I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip

Synonyms

• (military): tankman, tankist
• (military): trooper, crewman, armoured soldier, armored soldier
• (military): zipperhead (Canadian military slang)

Derived terms

• air tanker
• oil tanker
• supertanker

Translations

Verb

tanker (third-person singular simple present tankers, present participle tankering, simple past and past participle tankered)

1. (transitive) To transport (oil, etc.) in a tanker.
2. (aviation) To carry more fuel than necessary for a flight, in order to avoid having to refuel at a destination where fuel is more expensive or in short supply.

Anagrams

• Kanter

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tank?r/, [?t??n????]

Etymology 1

Noun

tanker c

1. indefinite plural of tanke

Etymology 2

From English tanker

Noun

tanker c (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

1. a tanker (a ship fitted with tanks for carrying liquid cargoes)

Synonyms

• tankskib

Verb

tanker

1. present of tanke

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tanker.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?t??.k?r/
• Hyphenation: tan?ker
• Rhymes: -??k?r

Noun

tanker m (plural tankers, diminutive tankertje n)

1. A tanker (type of cargo ship).

   Synonym: tankschip

Derived terms

• gastanker
• mammoettanker
• olietanker

French

Noun

tanker m (plural tankers)

1. tanker (vessel)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English tanker

Noun

tanker m (definite singular tankeren, indefinite plural tankere, definite plural tankerne)

1. (nautical) a tanker

Synonyms

• tankbåt, tankskip

Derived terms

• oljetanker

See also

• tankar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Noun

tanker m

1. indefinite plural of tank
2. indefinite plural of tanke

Etymology 3

Verb

tanker

1. present of tanke

References

• “tanker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “tanker” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nker/
• Hyphenation: tan?ker

Noun

tànker m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. tanker (vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid)

Declension