ship – English noun declension

English noun forms of ship

Noun: ship
Singularship
Pluralships

Sample Sentences

  • I don't know if there is another standard method, but the following approach works: Consider the collision of gliders from three rakes that produces a medium spaceship in the _same_ direction as the rake. This ship will follow along to the next collision point, which will not produce a spaceship, but rather some stable garbage, consisting of a block and a beehive. [1991 January 10, Paul Callahan, “Questions and comments about Conway's Life (long)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • Aside from the one ship in B3/S124 shown above, the only spaceships of this size (with period up to 20) in any of these rules are the Life glider and the three known from B2/ (each of which also is found in some variants of the Life or B2/ rules). [1995 November 12, Rich Holmes, “Totalistic spaceships”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • While constructing a butterfly double gun I put one cell at the wrong site and the result was highly surprising: my pattern turned to a big, beautiful ship, very similar to those found in Aqua25 from Al Hensel's collection! [1999 June 23, Mirek Wojtowicz, “What else has Brian in his Brain?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • But there are no ships, and no natural traffic lights or honey farms. The ship self destructs, and the predecessors to the traffic lights and honey farms self-destruct in spectacular manners. [1994 May 7, David Bell, “HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 1/3)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • In the case of these "ship" neighborhoods, birth will occur at the center cell, thus deviating from the "overcrowding" rule of Life (HighLife allows such a birth in all neighborhoods containing 6 cells). [1994 June 5, Paul Callahan, “Interesting life program”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):]
  • This means that the landing wheels are not so far forward of the ship's center of gravity ; and that means that ground contact is less likely to produce a bounce. [1944, Wolfgang Langewiesche, Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying:]
  • In addition to the four NAA pilots, three Air Force and one RAF pilot, all based at Edwards, flew the ship after first being checked out on the "tether rig." [1994, American Aviation Historical Society Journal, page 107:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
4. Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.?
5. Proto-Germanic *skipą
6. Proto-West Germanic *skip
7. Old English scip
8. Middle English schip
9. English ship
10. From Middle English chip, schepe, schip, schup, scip, scippe, ship, shup, ssip, from Old English sċip, sċyp, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship; tub, vessel”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). More at shift.
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with North Frisian schap, skap, Skep (“ship”), Saterland Frisian Schip, Skip (“ship”), West Frisian skip (“ship”), Central Franconian Scheff (“ship”), Dutch schip (“ship”), German Schiff (“ship”), Low German Schipp (“ship”), Luxembourgish Schëff (“ship”), Vilamovian śejf, siejft (“ship”), Yiddish שיף (shif, “ship”), Danish skib (“ship”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skip (“ship”), Swedish skepp (“ship”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip, “ship”).
13. Compare typologically boat, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-. See: Dutch Nouns 'schip', German Nouns 'Schiff', Danish Nouns 'skib', Swedish Nouns 'skepp', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀'.

Verbs referencing "ship"

French Nouns ship, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns skip, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns skip, Old Norse Nouns skip, Danish Nouns skib, German Nouns Schiff, Catalan Nouns esquif, Catalan Nouns xipeig.