ship

ship is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship, horsemanship.
2. noun. Pay; reward.
3. noun. Any large seagoing vessel.
4. noun. Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.
5. noun. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
6. transitive verb. To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
7. transitive verb. By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
8. transitive verb. Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
9. transitive verb. To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
10. transitive verb. To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
11. transitive verb. To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
12. intransitive verb. To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
13. intransitive verb. To embark on a ship.
14. noun. a vessel that carries passengers or freight
15. verb. place on board a ship

    "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"

16. verb. travel by ship
17. verb. transport commercially

    Synonyms: send, transport

18. verb. go on board

    Synonyms: embark

19. verb. hire for work on a ship

Synonyms

send, transport, embark

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ship:

hips, phis, pish

Common word forms

ships, shipful, shipped, shipper, shipless, shipment, shipping

Words from these letters

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