Word Finder - ship

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A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.

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(chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.

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A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.

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A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

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The third card of the Lenormand deck.

That ship is sinking fast, isn't it?

The ship grew distant.

He told me he got on a ship in Galveston and sailed for three years.

The ship was driven far out of her course.

It was not the chewy ship food.

If our ship didn't sink, it was certainly leaking like the Titanic.

Wherever the ship may go, the rush of water which neither directs nor increases its movement foams ahead of it, and at a distance seems to us not merely to move of itself but to govern the ship's movement also.

You know the parts of each ship and can configure the ships' systems?

Just as the grey ship disappeared from sight, another shape came into view.

However far he has walked, whatever strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the same sergeant major Ivan Mitrich, the same company dog Jack, and the same commanders.

It's good you knew a thing or two about configuring a ship, nishani.

A'Ran took control of the ship, forcing himself to focus.

How did she hire a ship?

I figured you might as well ship it all together, at one time.

I'll pack it and ship it overnight air.

I'll ship it back and safe keep it, but I don't want anything else to do with it.

He'd left her door broken and postponed leaving the ship until she calmed.

When the ship moves in one direction there is one and the same wave ahead of it, when it turns frequently the wave ahead of it also turns frequently.

At last the day came for the ship to sail.

Like the seventh and last wave that shatters a ship, that last irresistible wave burst from the rear and reached the front ranks, carrying them off their feet and engulfing them all.

I didn't see a space ship!

I arranged to ship Quinn's equipment back to New Hampshire tomorrow so that's out of the way.

Six days passed on the ship.

It was a single occupant transport ship whose passenger stood several feet from it and looked familiar from a distance.

We can't get any ship off planet.

I read somewhere they swipe cars and ship 'em down to South America where the druggies buy 'em. Maybe that's it.

Unlike the American Indians, who supposed Columbus and his crew to be supernatural beings, and their ships in some way endowed with life, and were thrown into convulsions of terror by the first discharge of firearms which they witnessed, these Australians were neither excited to wonder by the ship nor overawed by the superior number and unknown weapons of the strangers.

The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

To those on board the ship the movement of those waves will be the only perceptible motion.

It's a relationship threatening to sink our ship.

All she had to do was choose the color she wanted to wear-- black for the past several days in silent objection to her presence aboard the ship-- and the ship's computer wove it for her.

Without it, the ship wouldn't understand her outside of her room.

They'd traveled over a fortnight on the king's largest ship, bearing silks, game, and swords to offer as gifts with the barbarians.

It was touched in 1605 by the British ship "Olive Blossom," whose crew, finding it uninhabited, took possession in the name of James I.; but the first actual settlement was made in 1625, at the direction of Sir William Courteen under the patent of Lord Leigh, afterwards earl of Marlborough, to whom the island had been granted by the king.

And then she ran into several of the cat-like creatures roaming the ship.

She'd avoided the galley Evelyn had tried for three days to drag her to and said it would prove they were on a ship after she challenged Evelyn to prove it wasn't a dream.

Romas had attempted once to explain the clothing was not woven aboard the ship but created on his home planet, molecularly broken into invisible pieces and stored somewhere aboard the ship.

He nodded, half listening, as he leaned over the side of the ship again.

The captain was responsible for the freight and the ship; he had to replace all loss.

The speed of the ship can be roughly estimated from the speed of the engines; it is more accurately obtained by one or other of the various forms of log, or it may be measured by paying out continuously a steel wire over a measuring wheel.

Fearing a plan to kidnap him, he left Rome, ostensibly to meet the emperor, and from Sutri fled by night on horseback, pursued by 300 of the emperor's cavalry, to Civitavecchia, whence he took ship for Genoa and thence proceeded across the Alps to Lyons, at that time a merely nominal dependence of the Empire.

Ship and boat building, together with subsidiary industries, such as rope and sail making, appear less subject to periods of depression than other industries.

In 1635, in a list of the corporate towns of Suffolk to be assessed for ship money, Hadleigh is named as third in importance.

He suggested the use of experimental tanks for testing the powers of ship models, invented an ear-trumpet for the deaf, improved the common house-stove of his native land, cured smoky chimneys, took a lively interest in machine-guns and even sketched a flying machine.

One ship of Croton, however, fought at Salamis, though it is not recorded that Greece asked the Italiotes for help when it sent ambassadors to Gelon of Syracuse.

The Nile valley afforded a passage by ship or on foot into Nubia, where, however, little wealth was to be sought, though gold and rarities from the Sudan, such as ivory and ebony, came that way and an armed raid could yield a good spoil in slaves and cattle.

The viking ship had but one large and heavy square sail.

He then threw himself overboard; but instead of perishing, he was miraculously borne up in safety by a dolphin, supposed to have been charmed by the music. Thus he was conveyed to Taenarum, whence he proceeded to Corinth, arriving before the ship from Tarentum.

In whatever direction a ship moves, the flow of the waves it cuts will always be noticeable ahead of it.

I feel more like a ship's sailor in a storm, with shredded sails with someone handing me a needle and thread.