(n.) 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. See Illustation in Appendix.
(n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
(v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
(v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
(v. t.) Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
(v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
(v. t.) To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
(v. t.) To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
(v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
(v. i.) To embark on a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(3) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(4) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(5) Already Britain's electricity is becoming too dependent on gas brought in by ship through the Suez canal.
(6) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(7) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
(8) The plan to round up some business and ship away seemed sound.
(9) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(10) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(11) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(12) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(13) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(14) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(15) The source of the first outbreak was monkeys shipped from Africa; the origin of the second episode is unclear.
(16) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
(17) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
(18) An improved membrane filtration procedure for use on board ship to enumerate Escherichia coli and Group D faecal streptococci in marine sediments is described.
(19) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(20) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.
Shipboard
Definition:
(n.) A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) UNHCR has previously made known its concerns to Australia about its enhanced screening procedures and their non-compliance with international law.” It added: “UNHCR’s experience over the years with shipboard processing has generally not been positive.
(2) A study was conducted to determine the risk of upper respiratory disease among deployed U.S. Navy shipboard personnel.
(3) Such sovereignty declarations are usually made by hailing Japanese boats by radio and loudspeaker, as well as flashing shipboard signs.
(4) Antibiotics estimated to cost $226,000 were used during 33 voyages in 1986 and were considered of dubious efficacy on shipboard mortality.
(5) The application of this methodology in a large-scale shipboard study of merchant mariners on extended voyages is then described, and details given of the techniques used to measure sleep and activity, and temporal variations in a range of physiological und psychological parameters.
(6) As reported elsewhere, an enterotoxigenic strain of Escherichia coli serotype O25:K98:NM was epidemiologically incriminated as the etiological agent in a shipboard outbreak of diarrheal illness.
(7) Although inappetance in the feedlot was a risk factor for shipboard deaths, there was no difference in shipboard weight change between feedlot non-feeders and feeders in 2 voyages.
(8) Noise exposure criteria were adopted based on the 24-hr equivalent continuous sound level (Leq(24)) because of the absence of standards for U.S. shipboard noise exposure.
(9) Some data, Keever says, is available online, or can be found in state and federal government filings – and some is available from companies that install shipboard systems.
(10) The purpose of this study was to identify the potential determinants and distribution of shipboard patient delegation decisions.
(11) Twenty-eight percent of the incoming recruits were smokers, whereas 50% of the shipboard men were smokers.
(12) A voyage to the Middle East was then conducted to establish whether shipboard mortality could be reduced by separating non-feeders (n = 305) from feeders (n = 5,620) late in the feedlot hase and housing the groups separately aboard ship.
(13) Shipboard analysis of marine ultraphytoplankton by flow cytometry is a powerful method to classify these cells according to in vivo fluorescence characteristics and size.
(14) Temperature differences between the centre of the grain and its periphery, whether due to mould or insect heating, shipboard sources of heat or decreasing ambient temperatures, must be minimised and the period of time from loading to discharge kept as short as possible.
(15) In 2 voyages, there was no significant difference in shipboard death rate between groups that were previously lot-fed in sheds or in paddocks.
(16) Here we present the first view of the global distribution of PAN based on extensive shipboard and aircraft measurements.
(17) The frontier directions are on shipboard and shore-based.
(18) This review begins with the primitive shipboard practice of doctors accompanying Captain James Cook around 1775 and concludes with the modern era of permanent stations and vast scientific endeavour.
(19) A previous study compared the smoking rates of male recruits coming into the Navy with those of a shipboard sample to find out whether the Navy was attracting or creating smokers.
(20) The "split" pattern of sleep imposed by the watch system may be a major factor in preventing complete adaptation of physiological rhythms to shift work in the shipboard situation; this problem could be overcome by devising a system that allows sleep to be taken in a single uninterrupted block each day.