ship
/ʃɪp/
verb
- To send or transport something, usually by mail, truck, train, or ship.
- The company ships its products to customers all over the world.
- Please ship the package to my office address by Friday.
- We need to ship these supplies to the disaster area as quickly as possible.
- To make a product available for sale or release (informal, especially in technology).
- The software company plans to ship the new version next month.
- The game shipped with several bugs that were fixed in a later update.
- They shipped the album on vinyl and CD simultaneously.
- To support or hope for a romantic relationship between two people, especially fictional characters (slang, from 'relationship').
- Fans have been shipping the actor with his co-star for years.
- Do you ship Harry and Hermione or Harry and Ginny?
- I totally ship those two characters from the TV show.
Antonyms
noun
- A large boat used for carrying people or goods across the sea.
- They boarded the cruise ship for a week-long vacation in the Caribbean.
- The old wooden ship sank during a storm in the 18th century.
- The cargo ship carried containers full of electronics from China to the United States.
- A large spacecraft or aircraft (informal or in science fiction).
- The airship floated silently above the city, its engines barely humming.
- The starship entered warp speed to escape the enemy fleet.
- In the movie, the mother ship landed in the desert and opened its hatch.