Ship vs. Carling — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ship and Carling
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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.
Carling
One of the short timbers running fore and aft that connect the transverse beams supporting the deck of a ship.
Ship
A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.
Carling
Alternative form of carline
Ship
A sailing vessel having three or more square-rigged masts.
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Carling
(nautical) A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
Ship
An aircraft or spacecraft.
Carling
A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried.
Ship
The crew of one of these vessels.
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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