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Noun shipping has 2 senses
- transportation, shipping, transport - the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials
--1 is a kind of commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
--1 is a part of commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
--1 has particulars:
- shipping, cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels - conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
--2 is a kind of conveyance, transport
Verb ship has 5 senses
- transport, send, ship - transport commercially
--1 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
They ship the parcel to their parents
They ship them the parcel
- ship - hire for work on a ship
--2 is one way to hire, engage, employ
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- embark, ship - go on board
--3 is one way to board, get on
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- ship - travel by ship
--4 is one way to travel, journey
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- ship - place on board a ship; "ship the cargo in the hold of the vessel"
--5 is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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