
3 SEND to order someone to go somewhere ship somebody off/out etc He was shipped off to a juvenile detention center. Both products are due to ship at the beginning of June.
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► see thesaurus at take 2 BBT TT technical to make a piece of computer equipment or software available for people to buy They’re now shipping their long-awaited new anti-virus software.
○○ verb ( shipped, shipping ) 1 TT TAKE/BRING to send goods somewhere by ship, plane, truck etc ship something out/to/over etc A new engine was shipped over from the US. Related topics: Transport, Trade ship ship 2 Most of the island's supplies are brought in by ship. Then they will take their place on the ship at Tilbury among the food, plants and livestock cargo. I moved the aim away from the ship, an automatic precaution. They brush off Elijah and board the ship, but they see no sign of the mysterious figures they saw boarding earlier. They identified your ten ships right away and cheered back. Half-stunned, he struggled back aboard, to defend his ship like a fortress. I heard what had caught his attention the heavy thump of a big ship engine. ships that carry goods cargo ship/merchant ship a ship that carries goods rather than people container ship a ship that carries goods in special containers which can be put on trucks freighter a large ship that carries goods oil tanker a ship that carries oil supertanker a very large ship that carries oil barge a ship that carries goods on a river or canal military ships warship a military ship with guns, used in a war battleship the largest type of ship used in war, with very big guns on it aircraft carrier a military ship that planes can fly from or land on destroyer a small fast military ship with guns, often used for protecting battleships gunboat a small fast ship with guns on it, often used in shallow water near a coast submarine a military ship that can stay under water a nuclear submarine minesweeper a military ship used for removing bombs from under water Examples from the Corpus ship S2 W2 noun 1 TTW a large boat used for carrying people or goods across the sea the ship’s captain a luxury cruise ship by ship supplies that came by ship 2 TTS a large spacecraft → jump ship, → run a tight ship 1 (5 ) THESAURUS ships that carry people passenger ship a ship that carries people rather than goods cruise ship a large ship that people have holidays on liner a large ship that sails long distances across the ocean an ocean liner a transatlantic liner ferry a ship that makes short regular journeys between two places The ferry operates daily between Hull and Zeebrugge. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Water, Space ship ship 1 / ʃɪp /