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. see also shipping. Large floating vessel capable of crossing open waters. The term formerly was applied to sailing vessels with three or more masts; today it usually denotes a vessel of more than 500 tons' (450 metric tons') displacement. The largest ships today are enormous oil tankers, some of which are 500,000 tons (450,000 metric tons) deadweight. Other specialized ships (containerships) carry general freight in standardized containers that can be easily loaded, unloaded, and transferred. See also battleship, brig, clipper ship, corvette, dhow, frigate, junk, longship, ocean liner, schooner, yacht. Viking ship clipper ship ship money ship of the line
A seagoing vessel greater than 150' in length Used for luxury cruises, import and export
Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts
from the Old English scip, the generic name for sea-going vessels (as opposed to boats) Originally ships were personified as masculine but by the sixteenth century almost universally expressed as as feminine
By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad