ship
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 →
2) To ship is to send goods, by sea, road, air or post. tree →
3) Shipping is sending goods, or the cost of sending them. tree →
4) A spaceship is a vehicle that travels in space. tree →
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 →
- The ship sails 30 km an hour. tree →
- The factory ships 200 boxes a week. tree →
- How many boxes are shipped in 4 weeks? tree →
- The pirates' ship had three tall masts. tree →
- Our parcel was shipped yesterday. tree →
- Shipping costs 5 dollars. tree →
- Long ago, people crossed the ocean by ship. tree →
- And a ship came sailing by. tree →
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.
- It was not all good news: with the ships came diseases that killed huge numbers of the people already living in the Americas.
- Later, cats sailed on ships to catch rats, and that is how they spread around the world.
- The baiji found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and ship engines may have drowned them out.
- Ships and some dry countries make drinking water from seawater by distillation and other methods.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ship» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.