(v. i.) To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
(v. i.) To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.
(v. i.) To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.
(v. i.) To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.
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Transship
Definition:
(v. t.) To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 80% of the cocaine entering the United States is now thought to be transshipped through Honduras.
(2) In central blood banks, these models can minimize shipment quantities, determine optimal transshipments and the most efficient routing.
(3) This result was confirmed by studies on the uptake of gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) into an osmotically sensitive compartment in synaptosomes prepared from frozen human autopsy material transshipped from the brain tissue collection ("brain bank") at Harvard Medical School, MA, USA, to Sydney, Australia.
(4) AQIM had abolished taxes in the north and were using extortion, ransom payments and funds from drug transshipping to establish their rule, he said.