Berry vs Ship - What's the difference?
berry | ship |
A small fruit, of any one of many varieties.
(botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
A coffee bean.
One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
To pick berries.
To bear or produce berries.
A mound; a barrow.
(dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
An excavation; a military mine.
To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
To thresh (grain).
A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
(chiefly, in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
(archaic, nautical, formal) 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.
(label) To send by water-borne transport.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (label) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
(label) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
(label) To embark on a ship.
To put in its place.
(label) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
(label) To pass (from one person to another).
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport
, title= To go all in.
(label) To trade or send a player to another team.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
, title= (fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
(fandom) To write fiction that includes fictional romantic relationships between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
As a proper noun berry
is or berry can be (rare).As a noun ship is
a water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat or ship can be (fandom) a fictional romantic relationship between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.As a verb ship is
(label) to send by water-borne transport or ship can be (fandom) to write fiction that includes fictional romantic relationships between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.berry
English
(wikipedia berry)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology , s.v. “*?azjan” (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 40.Noun
(berries)- (Travis)
Derived terms
* apple-berry * Avignon berry * baneberry * barberry * bayberry * bearberry * beautyberry * the berries * berry alder * berry-bearing alder * berry-button * berrying * berryless * berry sugar * berry wax * bilberry, billberry * blackberry * blaeberry * blueberry * boxberry * boysenberry * bramberry * brambleberry * bread-berry * buckthorn berry * buffalo berry, buffalo-berry, buffaloberry * bulberry, bullberry, bull berry * bunchberry * candleberry * cassioberry * checker-berry, checkerberry * China-berry, chinaberry * choke-berry, chokeberry * Christmas berry * cloudberry * coffee-berry * coral-berry, coralberry * cow-berry, cowberry * crackerberry * cranberry * crowberry * cubeb berry * curlew-berry * dabbery, dayberry, deberry * deerberry * dew-berry, dewberry * dangleberry, tangleberry * dingleberry * dogberry * dway-berry * egg-berry * elderberry * farkleberry * feaberry * fen-berry * foxberry * French berry * fryberry * gallberry * gooseberry * guavaberry * hackberry, hagberry, heckberry, hegberry * heathberry, heath-berry * hedge-berry, hedgeberry * heurtleberry, hurtleberry * hillberry * hindberry * honeyberry * hound-berry, hound's-berry * huckleberry * hurtleberry * ink-berry, inkberry * ivenberry, ivy-berry * Juneberry * knotberry, knoutberry * lemonade berry * lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry * logan berry, loganberry * marionberry * marlberry * moss-berry, mossberry * mulberry * myrtle-berry * nannyberry * naseberry * nessberry * nub-berry * one-berry * oso-berry * partridge berry, partridge-berry, partridgeberry * peaberry * Persian berry * pigeon-berry * poison berry * pokeberry * quinsy-berry * raccoon-berry, racoon-berry * ramble-berry * raspberry * Rhein-berry * riberry * roan-berry, rowan-berry * roebuck-berry * rumberry * salal berry * salmon berry, salmonberry * scald-berry * sea-berry * service-berry, serviceberry * shadberry * sheepberry * silverberry * smurfberry * snowberry * soapberry * sparkleberry * spiceberry * strawberry * sugar berry, sugar-berry, sugarberry * sunberry * tayberry * tea-berry, teaberry * tetter-berry * thimbleberry * timberry * tummelberry * twinberry * veitchberry * wax-berry, waxberry * wheat berry * whinberry * whortleberry * wickeyberry tree * wineberry * winterberry * wolfberry * wonderberry * Worcesterberry * yellow berry * youngberryReferences
Verb
- On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying , whether we wanted to go or not.
Usage notes
* Unlikely to be used to refer to commercial harvesting of berries.Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Noun
(berries)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(berries)Etymology 4
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) *.Verb
ship
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ship, schip, from (etyl) scip, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) skip, (etyl) schip, (etyl) Schiff, (etyl) .Alternative forms
* shippe (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Tyndale)
Usage notes
* The singular form (term) is sometimes used without any , producing such sentences as "In all, we spent three weeks aboard ship." and "Abandon ship!". (Similar patterns may be seen with many place nouns, such as (camp), (home), (work), and (school), but the details vary between them.) * Ships are traditionally regarded as feminine and the pronouns (her) and (she) are normally used instead of (it).Hyponyms
*Derived terms
* abandon ship * airship * battleship * cargo ship * coffin ship * cruise ship * escort ship * fireship * Her Majesty's Ship, His Majesty's Ship * jump ship * merchant ship * midship, midships * mother ship * sailing ship * ship ahoy! * shipboard * ship-breaker * shipbuilder * shipbuilding * ship canal * ship chandler * ship fever * shipload * shipmate * shipmaster * shipowner * ship's company * shipshape * ships that pass in the night * ship-to-shore * shipwise * shipwreck * shipwright * shipyard * sinking ship * sister ship * slave ship * spaceship * starship * tall ship * tight ship * transport ship * warshipVerb
(shipp)- The timber wasshipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
- With finger pointed and eye levelled at the Pequod, the beggar-like stranger stood a moment, as if in a troubled reverie; then starting a little, turned and said:—“Ye’ve shipped , have ye? Names down on the papers? Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be;
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}
Derived terms
* shipment * shippage (rare)Etymology 2
From (relationship).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(shipp)- I ship Kirk and Spock in my ''Star Trek'' fan fiction.
