Word a Day
ship
What does ship mean?
ship (noun): a water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce ship?
/ʃɪp/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does ship come from?
From Middle English chip, schepe, schip, schup, scip, scippe, ship, shup, ssip, from Old English sċip, sċyp, from Proto-West Germanic *skip.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “ship” mean?
a water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat
Right! That's what “ship” means.
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
Not quite: that's what project means.
the state or characteristic of being just or fair
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a series of events leading to a result or product
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