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Ahoy vs. Ship — What's the Difference?

Ahoy vs. Ship — What's the Difference?

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Ahoy

Used to hail a ship or to attract attention.

Ship

A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world's oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying goods or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research, and fishing. Ships are generally distinguished from boats, based on size, shape, load capacity, and tradition.

Ahoy

(nautical) Used to hail a ship, a boat or a person, or to attract attention.

Ship

A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

Ahoy

(humorous) Warning of something approaching or impending.
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Ship

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

Ahoy

To hail with a cry of "ahoy".

Ship

An aircraft or spacecraft.

Ahoy

An utterance of this interjection.
There were many ahoys heard from the approaching ship.

Ship

The crew of one of these vessels.

Ahoy

A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy."

Ship

One's fortune
When my ship comes in, I'll move to a larger house.

Ship

To place or receive on board a ship
Shipped the cargo in the hold.

Ship

To cause to be transported; send.

Ship

(nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.

Ship

A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.

Ship

A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).

Ship

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

Ship

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

Ship

(cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.

Ship

(dated) An aircraft.

Ship

(fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.

Ship

(transitive) To send by water-borne transport.

Ship

(transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
To ship freight by railroad

Ship

(ambitransitive) To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
Our next issue ships early next year.
It compiles? Ship it!

Ship

(ambitransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
To ship seamen
I shipped on a man-of-war.

Ship

(intransitive) To embark on a ship.

Ship

To put or secure in its place.
To ship the tiller or rudder

Ship

(transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.

Ship

Leave, depart, scram.

Ship

To pass (from one person to another).
Can you ship me the ketchup?

Ship

To go all in.

Ship

(sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.

Ship

(rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.

Ship

(fandom) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
I ship Kirk and Spock in “Star Trek”.
I ship Peggy and Angie in “Marvel's Agent Carter”.

Ship

Pay; reward.
In withholding or abridging of the ship or the hire or the wages of servants.

Ship

Any large seagoing vessel.
Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim,Sails filled, and streamers waving.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!

Ship

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.

Ship

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

Ship

To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
The timber was . . . shipped in the bay of Attalia, from whence it was by sea transported to Pelusium.

Ship

By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.

Ship

Hence, to send away; to get rid of.

Ship

To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.

Ship

To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.

Ship

To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

Ship

To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.

Ship

To embark on a ship.

Ship

A vessel that carries passengers or freight

Ship

Transport commercially

Ship

Hire for work on a ship

Ship

Go on board

Ship

Travel by ship

Ship

Place on board a ship;
Ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel

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