Ship vs. Send — What's the Difference?

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.

To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination

A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

To dispatch, as by a communications medium

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

To direct to go on a mission

An aircraft or spacecraft.

To require or enable to go

The crew of one of these vessels.

To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer

One's fortune

To give off (heat, for example); emit or issue

To place or receive on board a ship

To utter or otherwise emit (sound)

To cause to be transported; send.

To hit so as to direct or propel with force; drive

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

To cause to take place or occur

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

To put or drive into a given state or condition

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

(Slang) To transport with delight; carry away

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

To dispatch someone to do an errand or convey a message

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

To dispatch a request or order, especially by mail

(cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.

To transmit a message or messages

(dated) An aircraft.

Variant of scend.

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

To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).

(transitive) To send by water-borne transport.

To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).

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

(transitive) To bring to a certain condition.

(ambitransitive) To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.

To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.

(ambitransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.

(transitive) To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

(intransitive) To embark on a ship.

To pitch.

To put or secure in its place.

To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

(transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.

To care.

Leave, depart, scram.

(telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.

To pass (from one person to another).

An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.

To go all in.

(nautical) scend

(sports) To trade or send a player to another team.

(Scotland) A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.

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

A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.

(fandom) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.

(climbing) A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.

Pay; reward.

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

Any large seagoing vessel.

To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.

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.

To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

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

To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; - sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.

To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.

To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.

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

To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.

Hence, to send away; to get rid of.

The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

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

Cause to go somewhere;

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

To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place;

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

Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;

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

Transport commercially

To embark on a ship.

Assign to a station

A vessel that carries passengers or freight

Transfer;

Transport commercially

Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution;

Hire for work on a ship

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television;

Go on board

Travel by ship

Place on board a ship;