| ship | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. ship | a vessel that carries passengers or freight. |
| ~ pitching, lurch, pitch | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance).; "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting" |
| ~ abandoned ship, derelict | a ship abandoned on the high seas. |
| ~ auxiliary boiler, donkey boiler | (nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port). |
| ~ auxiliary engine, donkey engine | (nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass). |
| ~ bay | a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital.; "they put him in the sick bay" |
| ~ belaying pin | a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing). |
| ~ bilge pump | a pump to remove bilgewater. |
| ~ bilge well | (nautical) a well where seepage drains to be pumped away. |
| ~ blockade-runner | a ship that runs through or around a naval blockade. |
| ~ bitt, bollard | a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).; "the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards" |
| ~ h.m.s. bounty, bounty | a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat. |
| ~ brig | a penal institution (especially on board a ship). |
| ~ bulkhead | a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments. |
| ~ bulwark | a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural). |
| ~ cargo area, cargo deck, cargo hold, storage area, hold | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo. |
| ~ cargo ship, cargo vessel | a ship designed to carry cargo. |
| ~ crow's nest | platform for a lookout at or near the top of a mast. |
| ~ davit | a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat). |
| ~ deck | any of various platforms built into a vessel. |
| ~ engine room, engineering | a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located. |
| ~ fin | a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish. |
| ~ flagship | the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag. |
| ~ fo'c'sle, forecastle | living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed. |
| ~ funnel | (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship). |
| ~ funnel | (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship). |
| ~ caboose, cookhouse, ship's galley, galley | the area for food preparation on a ship. |
| ~ gas-turbine ship | a ship powered by a gas turbine. |
| ~ gyrostabiliser, gyrostabilizer | a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane. |
| ~ helm | steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered. |
| ~ hospital ship | a ship built to serve as a hospital; used for wounded in wartime. |
| ~ hulk | a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned. |
| ~ iceboat, icebreaker | a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation. |
| ~ lightship | a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable. |
| ~ log | measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water. |
| ~ lubber's hole | hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds. |
| ~ magnetic mine | (nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship). |
| ~ mayflower | the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620. |
| ~ minelayer | ship equipped for laying marine mines. |
| ~ minesweeper | ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines. |
| ~ nuclear-powered ship | ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor. |
| ~ passenger ship | a ship built to carry passengers. |
| ~ pirate ship, pirate | a ship that is manned by pirates. |
| ~ planking | (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship). |
| ~ embrasure, porthole, port | an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through. |
| ~ porthole | a window in a ship or airplane. |
| ~ ratlin, ratline | (nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft. |
| ~ ridge rope | either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship. |
| ~ riding bitt | one of the large bitts used to secure the cable of a dropped anchor. |
| ~ school ship, training ship | a ship used to train students as sailors. |
| ~ screw propeller, screw | a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air. |
| ~ sea anchor, drogue | restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind. |
| ~ mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud, tack, sheet | (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind. |
| ~ shipwreck | a wrecked ship (or a part of one). |
| ~ sick berth, sickbay | (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship). |
| ~ sister ship | a ship that is one of two or more similar ships built at the same time. |
| ~ skeletal frame, underframe, skeleton, frame | the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape.; "the building has a steel skeleton" |
| ~ slave ship | a ship used to transport slaves from their homes to places of bondage. |
| ~ small ship | a ship that is small. |
| ~ spar | a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging. |
| ~ steamship, steamer | a ship powered by one or more steam engines. |
| ~ after part, stern, poop, tail, quarter | the rear part of a ship. |
| ~ superstructure | structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck. |
| ~ supply ship, tender | ship that usually provides supplies to other ships. |
| ~ three-decker | any ship having three decks. |
| ~ top | platform surrounding the head of a lower mast. |
| ~ topside | (usually plural) weather deck; the part of a ship's hull that is above the waterline. |
| ~ transport ship | a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment. |
| ~ treasure ship | a 16th-century ship loaded with treasure. |
| ~ troopship | ship for transporting troops. |
| ~ vessel, watercraft | a craft designed for water transportation. |
| ~ combat ship, war vessel, warship | a government ship that is available for waging war. |
| ~ whaling ship, whaler | a ship engaged in whale fishing. |
| ~ winch, windlass | lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds. |
| ~ wreck | a ship that has been destroyed at sea. |
| ~ beam | (nautical) breadth amidships. |
| ~ log | a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane). |
| ~ destabilization | an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft). |
| ~ foundering, going under | (of a ship) sinking. |
| ~ fleet | a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership. |
| ~ harborage, harbourage | (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship). |
| ~ messmate | (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship). |
| ~ drift | the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane). |
| ~ leeway | (of a ship or plane) sideways drift. |
| ~ trim | adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used. |
| ~ carvel-built | (of ships) built with flush (rather than overlapping) hull planks. |
| ~ clincher-built, clinker-built, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streak, lap-streaked | having overlapping hull planks. |
| ~ hogged, broken-backed | (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end. |
| ~ astern | (of a ship or an airplane) behind.; "we dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide" |
| v. (motion) | 2. send, ship, transport | transport commercially. |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ barge | transport by barge on a body of water. |
| ~ railroad | transport by railroad. |
| ~ despatch, dispatch, send off | send away towards a designated goal. |
| ~ forward, send on | send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit.; "forward my mail" |
| v. (social) | 3. ship | hire for work on a ship. |
| ~ hire, employ, engage | engage or hire for work.; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?" |
| v. (motion) | 4. embark, ship | go on board. |
| ~ board, get on | get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.). |
| ~ emplane, enplane | board a plane. |
| v. (motion) | 5. ship | travel by ship. |
| ~ journey, travel | travel upon or across.; "travel the oceans" |
| v. (contact) | 6. ship | place on board a ship.; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel" |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| ~ reship | place on a ship again or transfer to another ship.; "reship the cargo" |
| transport | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. conveyance, transport | something that serves as a means of transportation. |
| ~ dolly | conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects. |
| ~ dolly | conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted. |
| ~ horsebox | a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses. |
| ~ instrumentation, instrumentality | an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end. |
| ~ litter | conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers. |
| ~ mail | a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system. |
| ~ public transport | conveyance for passengers or mail or freight. |
| ~ roll-on roll-off | a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination. |
| ~ cargo ships, merchant vessels, merchant marine, shipping | conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry. |
| ~ sidecar | conveyance consisting of a small carrier attached to the side of a motorcycle. |
| ~ ski lift, ski tow, lift | a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill. |
| ~ telfer, telpher | one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage. |
| ~ trailer | a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor. |
| ~ aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram, tramway | a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers. |
| ~ vehicle | a conveyance that transports people or objects. |
| n. (process) | 2. transport | an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes. |
| ~ active transport | transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient; requires an expenditure of energy. |
| ~ diffusion | (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration. |
| ~ passive transport | transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required. |
| n. (act) | 3. shipping, transport, transportation | the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials. |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ business enterprise, business, commercial enterprise | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects.; "computers are now widely used in business" |
| ~ air transport, air transportation | transportation by air. |
| ~ navigation | ship traffic.; "the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts" |
| ~ hauling, trucking, truckage | the activity of transporting goods by truck. |
| ~ freight, freightage | transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates. |
| ~ expressage, express | rapid transport of goods. |
| ~ ferrying, ferry | transport by boat or aircraft. |
| ~ on-line, online | on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system.; "on-line industries" |
| ~ off-line | not on a regular route of a transportation system.; "an off-line ticket office" |
| n. (state) | 4. ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport | a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion.; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture" |
| ~ emotional state, spirit | the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection).; "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose" |
| n. (artifact) | 5. tape drive, tape transport, transport | a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder. |
| ~ mechanism | device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function. |
| ~ tape deck | electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system. |
| ~ tape machine, tape recorder | a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape. |
| n. (act) | 6. conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation | the act of moving something from one location to another. |
| ~ movement | the act of changing the location of something.; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel" |
| ~ transshipment | the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment. |
| ~ airlift, lift | transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable). |
| ~ connexion, connection | shifting from one form of transportation to another.; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta" |
| ~ bringing, delivery | the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail).; "his reluctant delivery of bad news" |
| ~ drive | the act of driving a herd of animals overland. |
| ~ carry | the act of carrying something. |
| ~ pickup | the act of taking aboard passengers or freight. |
| ~ lighterage | the transportation of goods on a lighter. |
| ~ relocation, resettlement | the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind). |
| ~ teleportation | a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another. |
| v. (motion) | 7. transport | move something or somebody around; usually over long distances. |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ sluice | transport in or send down a sluice.; "sluice logs" |
| ~ float | set afloat.; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond" |
| ~ ferry | transport by ferry. |
| ~ wheelbarrow | transport in a wheelbarrow. |
| ~ raft | transport on a raft.; "raft wood down a river" |
| ~ bus | send or move around by bus.; "The children were bussed to school" |
| ~ pipe | transport by pipeline.; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the desert" |
| ~ freight | transport commercially as cargo. |
| ~ truck | convey (goods etc.) by truck.; "truck fresh vegetables across the mountains" |
| ~ rail | convey (goods etc.) by rails.; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium" |
| ~ sledge | transport in a sleigh. |
| ~ lighter | transport in a flatbottom boat. |
| ~ pick up | give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift.; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway" |
| ~ wheel around, wheel | wheel somebody or something. |
| ~ carry over | transport from one place or state to another.; "Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal" |
| ~ advect | convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid.; "energy advected from the environment" |
| ~ teleport | transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another. |
| v. (contact) | 8. carry, transport | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body.; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" |
| ~ carry | pass on a communication.; "The news was carried to every village in the province" |
| ~ shoulder | carry a burden, either real or metaphoric.; "shoulder the burden" |
| ~ port | carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons.; "port a rifle" |
| ~ carry | propel or give impetus to.; "The sudden gust of air propelled the ball to the other side of the fence" |
| ~ bear | move while holding up or supporting.; "Bear gifts"; "bear a heavy load"; "bear news"; "bearing orders" |
| ~ bucket | carry in a bucket. |
| ~ return | make a return.; "return a kickback" |
| ~ pipe in | transport to a destiny through pipes.; "We have to pipe in oil" |
| ~ port | carry, bear, convey, or bring.; "The small canoe could be ported easily" |
| ~ porter | carry luggage or supplies.; "They portered the food up Mount Kilimanjaro for the tourists" |
| ~ pack | carry, as on one's back.; "Pack your tents to the top of the mountain" |
| ~ cart | transport something in a cart. |
| ~ fly | transport by aeroplane.; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America" |
| ~ haul | transport in a vehicle.; "haul stones from the quarry in a truck"; "haul vegetables to the market" |
| ~ lug, tote, tug | carry with difficulty.; "You'll have to lug this suitcase" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ chariot | transport in a chariot. |
| ~ bring, convey, take | take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" |
| v. (emotion) | 9. delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport | hold spellbound. |
| ~ delight, please | give pleasure to or be pleasing to.; "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation" |
| v. (contact) | 10. channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport | send from one person or place to another.; "transmit a message" |
| ~ fetch, bring, get, convey | go or come after and bring or take back.; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" |
| ~ project | transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another. |
| ~ propagate | transmit.; "propagate sound or light through air" |
| ~ translate | bring to a certain spiritual state. |
| ~ release, turn | let (something) fall or spill from a container.; "turn the flour onto a plate" |
| ~ send out, send | to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place.; "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
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