ship

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   place on board a ship

   ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel

2. 2
   verb

   to release a product or creation publicly, often followed by "it"

   After weeks of development time, we decided to just ship it and put the software up for sale.

3. 3
   noun

   A spaceship.

   I don't know if there is another standard method, but the following approach works: Consider the collision of gliders from three rakes that produces a medium spaceship in the _same_ direction as the rake. This ship will follow along to the next collision point, which will not produce a spaceship, but rather some stable garbage, consisting of a block and a beehive.

4. 4
   noun

   A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.

   But there are no ships, and no natural traffic lights or honey farms. The ship self destructs, and the predecessors to the traffic lights and honey farms self-destruct in spectacular manners.

5. 5
   noun

   An aircraft.

   This means that the landing wheels are not so far forward of the ship's center of gravity ; and that means that ground contact is less likely to produce a bounce.

6. 6
   verb

   To send by water-borne transport.

   All the timber whereof, was […] ſhipped in the bay of Attalia[…], from whence it was by ſea tranſported to Pelusium.

7. 7
   verb

   To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).

   to ship freight by railroad

8. 8
   verb

   To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.

   Our next issue ships early next year.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.? Proto-Germanic *skipą Proto-West Germanic *skip Old English scip Middle English schip English ship From Middle English ship, schip, from Old English sċip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą, from Proto-Indo-European *skēyb-, *skib-. More at shift. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, German Schiff, Yiddish שיף (shif), Danish skib, Norwegian skip, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”). Compare typo…