different between shipping vs riprap

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??

Etymology 1

From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship +? -ing.

Noun

shipping (countable and uncountable, plural shippings)

1. The transportation of goods.
2. The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry.
3. Passage or transport on a ship.
4. The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.

5. Navigation.

Derived terms

• shipping lane
• short-sea shipping

Translations

Etymology 2

From ship +? -ing.

Verb

shipping

1. present participle of ship

English

Etymology

Apparently a reduplication (with vowel dissimilation) of rap (“blow, stroke”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p?ap/

Noun

riprap (countable and uncountable, plural ripraps)

1. An underwater bank seen as a danger to shipping.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 423:

     They hold on, spray flying, the ceaseless racket of water impacting on rock all but swallowing them, the river pitching dizzily, snags and riprap raking like claws at the bottom of the boat.

2. (chiefly Canada, US) Rocks or other materials used to shore up an embankment, deter or prevent erosion, guide shipping, or serve as a temporary mooring.

Verb

riprap (third-person singular simple present ripraps, present participle riprapping, simple past and past participle riprapped)

1. To form a riprap in or upon.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English riprap.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: rip?rap

Noun

riprap

1. a riprap rocks or other materials used to shore up an embankment, deter or prevent erosion, guide shipping, or serve as a temporary mooring

Verb

riprap

1. to riprap