Shipping vs Sea - What's the difference?
shipping | sea |
The transportation of goods.
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, title= The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry.
Passage or transport on a ship.
The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
Navigation.
* Shakespeare
A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
(label) A large number or quantity; a vast amount.
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, passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
A heavy wave.
(label) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
As verbs the difference between shipping and sea
is that shipping is while sea is to saw.As a noun shipping
is the transportation of goods.shipping
English
(wikipedia shipping)Etymology 1
From (etyl) schipping, schyppynge, from (etyl) schippen, .Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- God send 'em good shipping .
Derived terms
* shipping laneEtymology 2
From .Verb
(head)sea
English
Noun
- A sea of faces stared back at the singer.
- With no power for the electric lights, the house was a sea of darkness.
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