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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ships |
| Synonyms: | freight, passenger, sailing, ship, steam |
| Main Entry: | ship |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | send, transport |
| Synonyms: | address, consign, direct, dispatch, drop, embark, export, forward, freight, go aboard, haul, move, put on board, remit, route, shift, ship out, smuggle, transfer, transmit |
| Notes: | a boat is a vessel that can be hauled aboard a ship, according to the Navy, with a ship being somewhat larger |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
| Concept: | Ship. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
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-nouns
ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom., navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping., man of war (combatant); transport, tender, storeship; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound., ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruise ship; mail steamer, riverboat, showboat, paddle steamer, paddle wheeler, sidewheeler, screw steamer; tug; line of steamers., boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully [Nfld.], bateau [Can.] battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, droughter; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht., catamaran, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme, trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan, wangan [U.S.], warf boat., balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane; hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute.
-adverbs
afloat, aboard; on board, on ship board; hard-a-lee, hard-a-port, hard-a-starboard, hard-a-weather.
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| Main Entry: | craft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | water or air vehicle |
| Synonyms: | air ship, aircraft, airplane, barge, blimp, boat, bottom, plane, ship, shipping, spacecraft, vessel, watercraft, zeppelin |
| Main Entry: | freight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goods being shipped |
| Synonyms: | bales, ballast, bulk, burden, carriage, consignment, contents, conveyance, encumbrance, fardel, haul, lading, load, merchandise, pack, packages, payload, shipment, shipping, tonnage, transportation, wares, weight |
| Main Entry: | navigation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traveling, guiding along route, often over water |
| Synonyms: | aeronautics, boating, cruising, exploration, flying, helmsmanship, nautics, navigating, ocean travel, pilotage, piloting, plotting a course, sailing, seafaring, seamanship, shipping, steerage, steering, voyage, voyaging, yachting |
| Main Entry: | transport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | move, transfer |
| Synonyms: | carriage, carrier, carrying, carting, conveyance, conveying, conveyor, freightage, hauling, lift, movement, mover, moving, passage, removal, shipment, shipping, transference, transferring, transit, transportation, transporting, transshipment, truckage, vehicle |
| Antonyms: | idle, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | lading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cargo |
| Synonyms: | freight, load, shipment, shipping |
| Main Entry: | transportation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conveyance |
| Synonyms: | carrying, conveying, freightage, haulage, hauling, moving, passage, portage, shipment, shipping, transit, transport |