ship

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ cruise, sailing

▪ cargo, container, factory, hospital, supply, transport, whaling

▪

a factory ship that is equipped for freezing and canning

▪ civilian, commercial (esp. AmE), merchant, passenger

▪ military, naval, navy, troop

▪ enemy

▪ amphibious, landing, surface

▪

missiles from surface ships

▪ ocean-going

▪ wooden

▪ passing

▪

The crew was rescued by a passing ship.

▪ pirate, slave

▪

an 18th-century slave ship

… OF SHIPS

▪ fleet

VERB + SHIP

▪ board, come aboard, come on board, go aboard, go on board

▪ be aboard, be on board

▪ sail

▪ manoeuvre/maneuver, pilot, steer

▪ moor

▪

The ship is now permanently moored in Buenos Aires.

▪ command

▪ build, launch

▪ load, unload

▪

The ship had already been unloaded.

▪ load sth onto, unload sth from

▪

The dockers were loading the cargo onto the ship.

▪ christen, name

▪ abandon

▪

The captain gave the order to abandon ship.

▪ go down with

▪

The captain went down with his ship.

▪ scuttle, sink, torpedo

▪ attack, damage, destroy

▪ jump

▪

Some of the crew jumped ship (= left it illegally) and disappeared.

SHIP + VERB

▪ carry sb/sth

▪

a ship carrying more than a thousand people

▪ arrive, dock

▪ anchor

▪

The ship anchored in the bay.

▪ be at anchor, lie at anchor

▪

Their ship lay at anchor in the bay.

▪ depart, go, leave, put out to sea, put to sea, sail, set sail

▪ be wrecked, run aground

▪ capsize

▪ go down, sink

▪ collide with sth, hit sth

▪ be equipped for/with sth

PREPOSITION

▪ aboard a/the ship, on a/the ship, on board a/the ship

▪

They are now on a ship bound for New York.

▪ by ship

▪

There was no time to send the goods by ship.

▪ ship bound for, ship for, ship to

PHRASES

▪ the bow of a ship, the deck of a ship, the stern of a ship

▪ the captain of a ship, the crew of a ship

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verb

Ship is used with these nouns as the object: ↑merchandise