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# ship

«ship» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big boat that carries people or goods across the sea** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, verb (ship, ships, shipped, shipping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ship is a big boat that carries people or goods across the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#m1)

2) To ship is to send goods, by sea, road, air or post. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#m2)

3) Shipping is sending goods, or the cost of sending them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#m3)

4) A spaceship is a vehicle that travels in space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: ships counted, people or boxes carried; rates such as «ships 200 boxes a week» or speed in km an hour. Everyday: online orders are shipped; shipping costs. History and stories: sailing ships, pirates, explorers. Phrases: on board a ship, abandon ship, shipwreck.

### examples

- A ship carries 500 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x1)
- The ship sails 30 km an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x2)
- The factory ships 200 boxes a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x3)
- How many boxes are shipped in 4 weeks? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x4)
- The pirates' ship had three tall masts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x5)
- Our parcel was shipped yesterday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x6)
- Shipping costs 5 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x7)
- Long ago, people crossed the ocean by ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x8)
- And a ship came sailing by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/#x9)

### note

Countable noun; verb doubles the p: shipped, shipping. Carrying capacity and rates (per hour, per week): total = rate × time. Trap: a ship is bigger than a boat; «ship» as a verb does not need the sea.

### In the corpora

- [When the war blocked ships from Ukraine in 2022, grain and bread prices rose in many countries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/12/)
- [It was not all good news: with the ships came diseases that killed huge numbers of the people already living in the Americas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/3/)
- [Later, cats sailed on ships to catch rats, and that is how they spread around the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/4/)
- [The baiji found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and ship engines may have drowned them out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/4/)
- [Ships and some dry countries make drinking water from seawater by distillation and other methods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ship» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/ship/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.