ship

A ship (senses 1 and 4).

Meanings

A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
The third card of the Lenormand deck.
An aircraft.
A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional.

To send by water-borne transport.
To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
To release a product to vendors; to launch.
To engage to serve on board a vessel.
To embark on a ship.
To put or secure in its place.
To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
To pass (from one person to another).
To go all in.
To trade or send a player to another team.
To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.

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.
Cognate with West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, German Schiff, Yiddish שיף, Danish skib, Norwegian skip, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti ("to rip up"), Latvian skibit ("to cut, lop"), Ancient Greek σκάφη ("light boat, skiff").
From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.

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