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As nouns the difference between ship and load

is that 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 while load is a burden; a weight to be carried.

As verbs the difference between ship and load

is that 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 while load is to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

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)
  • 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.
  • (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
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    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 * warship

    Verb

    (shipp)
  • (label) To send by water-borne transport.
  • * (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
  • The timber wasshipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (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) ,
  • 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;
  • (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= 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.}}
  • 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= 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)
  • (fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
  • Verb

    (shipp)
  • (fandom) To write fiction that includes fictional romantic relationships between two persons, either real or themselves fictional.
  • I ship Kirk and Spock in my ''Star Trek'' fan fiction.
    See also
    * -ship

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    load

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burden; a weight to be carried.
  • I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
  • (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind .
  • * Dryden
  • Our life's a load .
  • * 2005 , (Coldplay), Green Eyes
  • I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
  • A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
  • The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
    She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
  • (in combination)
  • (often, in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
  • I got loads of presents for my birthday!
    I got a load of emails about that.
  • The volume of work required to be performed.
  • Will our web servers be able to cope with that load ?
  • (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
  • Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
  • (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
  • I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
  • (engineering) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
  • (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
  • Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
  • (obsolete) A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
  • * 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 172:
  • If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
  • A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  • The charge of powder for a firearm.
  • (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
  • (Milton)
  • (vulgar, slang) The semen of an ejaculation.
  • * 2006 , John Patrick, Barely Legal , page 102
  • Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out
  • * 2009 , John Butler Wanderlust , page 35
  • It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.

    Synonyms

    * charge, freight

    Derived terms

    * see

    Verb

  • To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
  • The dock workers refused to load the ship.
  • To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
  • The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
    He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
  • To put a load on something.
  • The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading .
  • To receive a load.
  • ''The truck is designed to load easily.
  • To be placed into storage or conveyance.
  • The containers load quickly and easily .
  • To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
  • I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
  • To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
  • Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
  • To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
  • The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
  • To be put into use in an apparatus.
  • The cartridge was designed to load easily.
  • (computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
  • Click OK to load the selected data.
  • (computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
  • This program takes an age to load .
  • (baseball) To put runners on first]], [[second base, second and third bases
  • He walks to load the bases.
  • To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
  • You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
    The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
  • To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  • To encumber with something negative.
  • The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
  • To place as an encumbrance.
  • The new owners loaded debt on the company.
  • To provide in abundance.
  • He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
    He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
  • (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
  • to load wine
  • (archaic) To magnetize.
  • (Prior)

    Derived terms

    * See

    Derived terms

    * dead load * download * live load * load-bearing * loaded * loading * loadsamoney * load up * payload * shitload * unit load * upload English collective nouns ----