Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - ship

(ships, shipping, shipped) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A ship is a large boat which carries passengers or cargo. Within ninety minutes the ship was ready for departure... We went by ship over to America. ...merchant ships. N-COUNT: also by N 2. If people or things are shipped somewhere, they are sent there on a ship or by some other means of transport. Food is being shipped to drought-stricken Southern Africa. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv 3. see also shipping