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# shipload

«shipload» in Mova's school dictionary: **the full amount that a ship can carry, or a very large…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (shipload, shiploads)

### meaning for a pupil

A shipload is the full amount that a ship can carry, or a very large load carried by ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

used in tales for a huge cargo of goods such as incense, gold or grain; it names a large amount without giving a number

### examples

- The merchant sold a shipload of spices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/#x1)
- They unloaded a shipload of wool at the port. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/#x2)
- He paid for the shipload with his gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/#x3)

### note

A shipload gives no exact count; it means a big amount, so the number must be found elsewhere in the problem

### Trees and pragmatics

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