Burgess-ship
(n.) The state of privilege of a burgess. |
Gauger-ship
(n.) The office of a gauger. |
High-churchman-ship
(n.) The state of being a high-churchman. |
Hostess-ship
(n.) The character, personality, or office of a hostess. |
Hydrodynamic
(a.) Alt. of Hydrodynamical |
Light-ship
(n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners. |
Lode-ship
(n.) An old name for a pilot boat. |
Log-ship
(n.) A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2. |
-ship
(n.) A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art |
Ship
(n.) Pay |
Ship
(n.) Any large seagoing vessel. |
Ship
(n.) 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. |
Ship
(n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. |
Ship
(v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation |
Ship
(v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance |
Ship
(v. t.) Hence, to send away |
Ship
(v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship |
Ship
(v. t.) To receive on board ship |
Ship
(v. t.) To put in its place |
Ship
(v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel |
Ship
(v. i.) To embark on a ship. |
Ship-rigged
(a.) Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails. |
Stem
(v. i.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem
(n.) Alt. of Steem |
Stem
(n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind |
Stem
(n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch |
Stem
(n.) The stock of a family |
Stem
(n.) A branch of a family. |
Stem
(n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel |
Stem
(n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position |
Stem
(n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk |
Stem
(n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. |
Stem
(n.) The entire central axis of a feather. |
Stem
(n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. |
Stem
(n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note |
Stem
(n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection |
Stem
(v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from |
Stem
(v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole. |
Stem
(v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel |
Stem
(v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current. |
Stem-clasping
(a.) Embracing the stem with its base |
Stem-winder
(n.) A stem-winding watch. |
Stem-winding
(a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem |
stem turn
stem | a turn made in skiing, the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it |
shipbuilding
ship building | the construction of ships |
abandoned ship
derelict | a ship abandoned on the high seas |
bottom
freighter
merchantman
merchant ship | a cargo ship, they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms |
bow fore
prow
stem | front part of a vessel or aircraft, he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line |
| capital ship | a warship of the first rank in size and armament |
cargo ship
cargo vessel | a ship designed to carry cargo |
| clipper clipper ship | a fast sailing ship used in former times |
container ship
containership
container vessel | a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes, the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceedpounds |
cruise ship
cruise liner | a passenger ship used commercially for pleasure cruises |
| factory ship | a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea |
| fire ship | a weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives that is set adrift to destroy enemy ships |
galley
ship's galley
caboose cookhouse | the area for food preparation on a ship |
| gas-turbine ship | a ship powered by a gas turbine |
| guard ship | a warship (at anchor or under way) required to maintain a higher degree of readiness than others in its squadron |
| hospital ship | a ship built to serve as a hospital, used for wounded in wartime |
| Liberty ship | a slow cargo ship built during World War II |
man-of-war
ship of the line | a warship intended for combat |
| nuclear-powered ship | ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor |
oil tanker
oiler
tanker
tank ship | a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk |
| passenger ship | a ship built to carry passengers |
patrol boat
patrol ship | a vessel assigned to patrol an area |
| picket ship | a ship serving as a picket |
pirate
pirate ship | a ship that is manned by pirates |
sailing vessel
sailing ship | a vessel that is powered by the wind, often having several masts |
school ship
training ship | a ship used to train students as sailors |
seaway
sea lane
ship route
trade route | a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels |
| shank stem | cylinder forming a long narrow part of something |
| ship r | a vessel that carries passengers or freight |
ship canal
shipway | a canal large enough for seagoing vessels |
| ship-towed longange acoustic detection system | a shipboard system consisting of an acoustic detection system that is towed behind the ship |
| sister ship | a ship that is one of two or more similar ships built at the same time |
| slave ship | a ship used to transport slaves from their homes to places of bondage |
| small ship | a ship that is small |
| stem | the tube of a tobacco pipe |
| stem-winder | a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem |
| surface ship | a warship that operates on the surface of the water |
tender
supply ship | ship that usually provides supplies to other ships |
tender ship's boat
pinnace
cutter | a boat for communication between ship and shore |
| transport ship | a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment |
| treasure ship | a thentury ship loaded with treasure |
warship
war vessel
combat ship | a government ship that is available for waging war |
| weather ship | an oceangoing vessel equipped to make meteorological observations |
whaler
whaling ship | a ship engaged in whale fishing |
brainstem
brain-stem
brain stem | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus |
| stem cell | an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells) |
| hematopoeitic stem cell | blood forming stem cells in the bone marrow, T cells and B cells arise from these stem cells |
root
root word
base
stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
| ship's papers | official papers which a ship is legally required to have, related to ownership, cargo, etc. |
stem vowel
thematic vowel | a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection |