Ship vs Girl - What's the difference?
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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).
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, title= To go all in.
(label) To trade or send a player to another team.
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, 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.
A young female human; (in contrast to boy ), a female child or young adult.
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, title= Any woman, regardless of her age. (see usage notes)
A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
(uncommon) A queen (the playing card.)* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)
(colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)
A girlfriend.
A daughter.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A roebuck two years old.
(US, slang) Cocaine, especially in powder form.
* 1969 , Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life , Cash Money Content (2011), ISBN 9781451617139,
* 1977 , Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle , Holloway House (1987), ISBN 0870673661,
* 2005 , K'wan, Hoodlum , St. Martin's Press (2005), ISBN 0312333080,
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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.As a proper noun girl is
(astronomy) a chinese constellation located near aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the black turtle.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.
See also
* -shipStatistics
*Anagrams
* * *External links
* 1000 English basic wordsgirl
English
Noun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
page 43:
- She had taught me to snort girl , and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.
page 175:
- Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl .
page 185:
- After about an hour or two of half-ass sex and snorting girl , Honey was zoned out. She flexed her still numb fingers, trying to find a warmth that didn't seem to come. Cocaine always made her numb.