What's the difference between ship and shipwright?

Ship


Definition:

  • (n.) Pay; reward.
  • (n.) Any large seagoing vessel.
  • (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.

Shipwright


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although it looks like a giant seaside souvenir shop ornament, it is a remarkably faithful model of Victory with 31 sails set and six furled as on the day of Trafalgar, built from traditional shipwright's materials.
  • (2) A 40-year historical cohort study of medical wastage among about 550 shipyard welders and 1100 controls (shipwrights and engine fitters), all employed at the same shipyard, was carried out.
  • (3) A shipwright developed a delayed bullous irritant dermatitis from contact with a bis-tri-butyl tin oxide (TBTO) containing antifouling paint.
  • (4) Abbott began with a homily to his shipwright grandfather and a story about how, as a schoolboy, he paddled his timber canoe in Sydney Harbour’s Lane Cove National Park.

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