Synonyms for ship
ʃɪpship

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1. shipverb

   a vessel that carries passengers or freight

2. transport, send, shipverb

   transport commercially

   Synonyms:
   ravish, institutionalize, beam, send off, channel, post, institutionalise, transport, enthrall, place, mail, enchant, station, broadcast, get off, embark, air, send out, direct, channelize, charge, transmit, commit, carry, channelise, transfer, delight, enrapture, send, enthral

3. shipverb

   hire for work on a ship

   Synonyms:
   embark, transport, send

4. embark, shipverb

   go on board

   Synonyms:
   enter, venture, embark, transport, send

5. shipverb

   travel by ship

   Synonyms:
   embark, transport, send

6. shipverb

   place on board a ship

   "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"

   Synonyms:
   embark, transport, send

Matched Categories

1. • Board
   • Hire
   • Move
   • Place
   • Travel

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1. shipnoun

   Synonyms:
   vessel

   Associated words:
   barratry, hypothecate, hypothecation

2. shipverb

   Synonyms:
   transport, deport, dismiss, send away

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1. List of paraphrases for "ship":

   vessel, boat, ships, vessels, spaceship, starship, shipping, navire, baseship, ship-to, freighter, shuen, shipment, cruiser, shuttle, craft, warship, send, spacecraft, plover, battleship, dispatch, ship-

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1. Tamotsu Iba:

   Sony is like a ship that has set sail in the stormy weather of the electronics business, led by a captain who's using a flawed nautical map, he doesn't have the sensibility or intellect to notice it's wrong. Do board members, who should be in a position to supervise the captain, not notice? Are they tolerating it, not willing to point it out?

2. Mohammad Mohammadi-Golpayegani:

   A country that at one time appointed ministers and lawyers in Iran has reached a point where they send a mediator and plead for their ship to be freed.

3. Thomas Duconseille:

   From Belgium, we fill up shipping containers with a large amount of dried and frozen food and every other year, a ship arrives and supplies us with these ingredients.

4. Joe Raedle/Getty:

   There will be a couple of what we call fast boats will come up to the capsule at that point and make sure that everything is safe on the outside of the capsule for it to be hoisted on board the recovery ship, at that point, the recovery ship is moving in and in communications with the fast boats ...once everybody gives the thumbs up that we are ready to be hoisted aboard it will get lifted aboard by a crane and cradled on board the aft portion of the ship.

5. Robert Heinlein:

   A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.