Ship vs. Skiff — 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.

The term skiff is used for a number of essentially unrelated styles of small boats. Traditionally, these are coastal craft or river craft used for leisure, as a utility craft and for fishing, and have a one-person or small crew.

A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

A flatbottom open boat of shallow draft, having a pointed bow and a square stern and propelled by oars, sail, or motor.

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

A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.

An aircraft or spacecraft.

Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.

The crew of one of these vessels.

A light, fleeting shower of rain or snow, or gust of wind, etc.

One's fortune

A (typically light) dusting of snow or ice (or dust, etc) (on ground, water, trees, etc).

To place or receive on board a ship

An act of slightly pruning tea bushes, placing new leaves at a convenient height without removing much woody growth.

To cause to be transported; send.

To navigate in a skiff.

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

To fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground (etc).

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

To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table.

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

A small, light boat.

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

To navigate in a skiff.

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

Any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor

(cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.

(dated) An aircraft.

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

(transitive) To send by water-borne transport.

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

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

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

(intransitive) To embark on a ship.

To put or secure in its place.

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

Leave, depart, scram.

To pass (from one person to another).

To go all in.

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

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

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

Pay; reward.

Any large seagoing vessel.

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.

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

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

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

Hence, to send away; to get rid of.

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

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

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

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

To embark on a ship.

A vessel that carries passengers or freight

Transport commercially

Hire for work on a ship

Go on board

Travel by ship

Place on board a ship;