ship

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Vehicle for navigation on water

Nouns

1. ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom; airship (see aviation). See navigation.

2. (naval organization) navy, marine, fleet, flotilla, argosy; shipping, merchant marine; coast guard.

3. transport, tender, storeship; freighter, merchant ship, merchantman; packet; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing or pilot boat; dragger, drogher, trawler; hulk; yacht; liner; tanker, oiler; barge, scow; steamer, steamboat, steamship; paddle steamer; icebreaker; tug, tugboat; hovercraft, hydrofoil, hydroplane, airboat; bathyscaphe, bathysphere (see depth).

4. (sailing ship) sailer, sailing vessel, fore-and-after, bark, barque, brig, brigantine, barkantine; schooner; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, yawl, ketch, sharpie, smack, dogger, lugger, nickey; cat[boat], carvel, caravel; bireme, trireme; galley, dromond, hooker, argosy, carrack; galleass, galleon, galiot; hoy, jangada, junk, lorcha, nuggar, moleta, praam, proa, prahu, saic, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; knockabout; iceboat.

5. boat, pinnacle, launch; rowboat, shallop, johnboat; lifeboat, longboat, jollyboat, bumboat, flyboat, cockboat, canalboat, ferryboat; shallop, gig, skiff, dinghy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, nobby, punt, outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; fireboat, motorboat; cabin cruiser; houseboat; class boat; catamaran, coracle, gondola, felucca, caique, gufa; dugout, canoe; kayak, faltboat.

6. marine, navy, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron; man-of-war, ship of the line, ironclad, warship, frigate, gunboat, flagship, cruiser; minesweeper; privateer; troopship, transport, corvette, torpedo boat, submarine, battleship, scout, dreadnought, aircraft carrier, flattop, destroyer. Slang, gob, gyrene.

7. (parts of a ship or boat) oar, paddle, scull, screw, sail, course, crossjack, foresail, headsail, mizzen, moonraker, jigger, kite, lateen, lugsail, mainmast, mainsail, square sail, staysail, studding sail, topgallant, royal sail, skysail, spanker, topsail, gennaker, pennant, gaff, canvas, fish's tail; paddle wheel, side, or stern wheel; rudder, leeboards, rigging, sail, sheet, line, rope, mainsheet; mast, aftermast, foremast, boom, pole, bibb, jib, sprit, genoa, crosstree, yard, yardarm; beam; keep; deck, quarterdeck, forecastle, fo'c'sle; spar, bowsprit; alleyway, hatchway, booby hatch, gangplank, gangway; anchor, bower, fluke, hook, barb, shank, grapnel, kedge, sea anchor, anchor chock; backstay, becket, bight, block, bobstay, buntline, hawser, halyard, heaving line, spring line, lanyard, ratline, mainstay, vang, warp, shroud, burton, capstan, cleat; batten, ballast, carlings, davit, derrick; berth; after, fore, boat, poop, orlop, flight, etc. deck, quarterdeck, bridge, brig; boiler room, engine room, cabin, stateroom, galley, head, hold, sick bay; bow, stern, bilge, bulkhead, bulwark, buttock, cuddy, cutwater, fantail, fidley, futtock, strake, garboard, gunwale, hull, keel, keelson, paravane, porthole, scupper, skeg; compass, gimbal, pelorus, sextant, helm, wheel, rudder.

Verbs — sail, cruise, steam, drift, navigate (see navigation).

Adjectives — full-rigged, square-rigged; fore-and-aft; abeam; fore, aft, midship, outboard.

Adverbs — afloat, aboard, on board, aboardship, on shipboard, amidship(s), athwartships, belowdecks.

Quotations — Don't give up the ship (James Lawrence), The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven (Martin Luther), Ships that pass in the night, and speak to each other in passing (Wordsworth), They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep (Bible), What is a ship but a prison? (Robert Burton), His heart was mailed with oak and triple brass who first committed a frail ship to the wild seas (Horace), Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned (Samuel Johnson), Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board (Zora Neale Hurston).

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. boat, vessel, craft.

Types of ships include: dahabeah, junk, galleon, sampan, Xebec, lugger, steamer, steamship, container ship, cargo ship, cruise ship, ocean greyhound, liner, freighter, landing barge, packet, ferry, clipper, square-rigged vessel, dhow, sailing ship, transport, oil tanker, supertanker, fishing smack, lightship, pilot boat, cutter-yacht, pindjajap, lorcha, galiot, casco, patamar, caique, bilander, baghla, state barge, battleship, cruiser, destroyer, corvette, aircraft carrier, whaling vessel, bark, barkentine, brigantine, schooner, windjammer, yacht, hydrofoil, catamaran, trimaran, dragger, cutter, ketch, yawl, bugeye, sloop, brig, tug, trawler, three-master, four-master, billyboy, hoy, felucca, caravel; see also boat . v.

Syn. send, consign, direct, dispatch, mail, transmit, ship out, put into the hands of a shipper, export, put on board; see also send 1 .

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

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n.

vessel, craft, watercraft, boat, *tub, *stormslogger, liner, cruise ship, freighter, ferry, transport. ''Being in jail with a chance of being drowned.''—Samuel Johnson.

WORD FIND

• accommodations: first-class, cabin class, tourist class

• ammunition compartment: magazine

• anchor: bower, kedge, sea anchor, stream anchor

• anchor chain winder, unwinder: capstan, windlass

• anchoring and securing of vessel: mooring

• anchor rope: hawser

• bed: berth

• boarding platform: gangplank

• body: hull

• bottom fin or backbone: keel

• bottom, rounded portion of: bilges

• cabin, small: cuddy

• captain: skipper

• cargo and debris lost from wrecked ship: flotsam and jetsam

• cargo area: hold

• cargo conveyance: cargo net

• cargo, list of: manifest

• chart and navigational instrument room: chart room

• compass stand: binnacle

• course change: tack

• crane, hoisting apparatus: davit, derrick

• crew member: hand, mate

• crew quarters, structure holding: forecastle

• deck: weather deck, poop deck

• depth below waterline: draft, draught

• drain: scupper

• drive: navigate

• flag: burgee, jack

• floating dock that holds ship for repairs: dry dock

• front: bow, prow, fore

• hatch: booby hatch, scuttle, companionway

• hospital: sick bay

• kitchen: galley, caboose, cuddy

• knot: 6,080 feet an hour

• ladder: jack ladder, ratlines

• lean: heel, list left and right sides (respectively) looking

• from aft forward: port, starboard

• living quarters: cabin

• lookout perch: crow’s nest

• makeshift structure repairs: jury, juryrigging

• meal compartment: mess room

• merchant ship or fleet of same: argosy

• middle: amidships

• navigational house: pilot house

• numbers of measurements on bow: draft marks

• observation platform: bridge

• officer: purser, bosun, skipper, captain

• officers, upper-class passenger room: stateroom

• pitch/roll indicator: clinometer

• plants and animals living on ship’s bottom: foul

• porthole cover: deadlight

• position finder: Loran

• protective shielding made of ropes, tires, etc.: fender, pudding

• pulley system: block

• pumps, motors, winches, collective term: auxiliaries

• pump that removes water: bilge pump

• rear: aft, stern, astern

• rising and falling fore and aft with waves: pitching

• rope-belaying fixture: cleats

• rope, collective term: cordage

• rope: lanyard

• side-to-side motion: roll

• steering apparatus: helm; rudder, tiller

• steer: navigate, conn

• structure above deck: superstructure

• supplier: chandler

• tarp securer of wood: batten

• toilet: head

• trailing whitewater: wake

• vibrations of bow over waves: panting

• waiter: cabin boy

• wall, compartment: bulkhead

• weight of sand, rocks, concrete or iron, stabilizing: ballast

• weight of water, stabilizing: ballast tanks

• width: beam

• window: porthole

see boat, navy, sail, sailor

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v.

send, transport, mail, convey, forward, dispatch, consign.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To cause (something) to be conveyed to a destination: address, consign, dispatch, forward, route, send, transmit. See MOVE.