ship

Etymology 1

From Middle English ship, schip, from Old English sċip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą, from Proto-Indo-European *skēyb-, *skib-. More at shift. cognates Cognate with West Frisian skip, Dutch schip, German Schiff, Yiddish שיף (shif), Danish skib, Norwegian skip, Swedish skepp. Related also to Lithuanian skiẽbti (“to rip up”), Latvian škibît (“to cut, lop”), Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “light boat, skiff”).

noun

1. (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
2. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
3. (cellular automata, chiefly in combination) A spaceship.
   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. 1991-01-10, 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). 1995-11-12, 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! 1999-06-23, Mirek Wojtowicz, “What else has Brian in his Brain?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
4. (cellular automata) A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
   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. 1994-05-07, 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). 1994-06-05, Paul Callahan, “Interesting life program”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
5. (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
6. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
7. (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
8. (dated) An aircraft.
   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 2

From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”).

verb

1. (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
   One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. 2014-06-14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
2. (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
   to ship freight by railroad
3. (transitive, intransitive) To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
   Our next issue ships early next year.
   It compiles? Ship it!
4. (transitive, intransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
   to ship seamen
   I shipped on a man-of-war.
5. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
6. (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.
   to ship the tiller or rudder
7. (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
   We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.
8. (colloquial, with dummy it) Leave, depart, scram.
   Douglas: Sorry girls, you better go. Girls! Ship it! 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
9. (transitive, colloquial) To pass (from one person to another).
   Can you ship me the ketchup?
   And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch. September 18, 2011, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport
10. (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
11. (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
    Twins ship Delmon Young to Tigers.
12. (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
    England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men. October 1, 2011, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
    They shipped penalties, lost field position, and in the second-half, having retreated to the changing room buoyed by Dougie Fife’s well-worked try, found themselves ceding two-thirds of the territory and with it, the lion’s share of the ball. February 11, 2015, “Six Nations: Scotland raw but capable of improving”, in The Scotsman

Etymology 3

table Clipping of relationship.

noun

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

verb

1. (fandom slang) 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”.
   I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky. 2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin