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SHIPPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
Synonyms:
shipping; transport; transportation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("shipping" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Domain member category:
on-line; online (on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system)
off-line (not on a regular route of a transportation system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shipping"):
air transport; air transportation (transportation by air)
navigation (ship traffic)
hauling; truckage; trucking (the activity of transporting goods by truck)
freight; freightage (transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates)
express; expressage (rapid transport of goods)
ferry; ferrying (transport by boat or aircraft)
Holonyms ("shipping" is a part of...):
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Derivation:
ship (transport commercially)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
Synonyms:
cargo ships; merchant marine; merchant vessels; shipping
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("shipping" is a kind of...):
conveyance; transport (something that serves as a means of transportation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb ship
Context examples:
Before we took shipping, I was often asked by some of the crew, whether I had performed the ceremony above mentioned?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If you work in the communications field, this November 12 full moon may find you either getting a new assignment or finishing one and shipping it off.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The results, are key for the study of long-term dune migration, which threatens shipping channels, increases desertification, and can bury infrastructure such as highways.
(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)
We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
No shipping masters or beach-combers over here, and he wants yer in his business, and he wants yer bad.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw, and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the HISPANIOLA had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Young as I was, I knew that it was here, in the forest of merchant shipping, in the bales which swung up to the warehouse windows, in the loaded waggons which roared over the cobblestones, that the power of Britain lay.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sun had long set, but one blood-red gash like an open wound lay low in the distant west. Above, the stars were shining brightly, and below, the lights of the shipping glimmered in the bay.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I think our next scene of operations must be the shipping office of the Adelaide-Southampton line, which stands at the end of Pall Mall, if I remember right.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The liability of shipping another such sea was enormously increased by the water that weighed the boat down and robbed it of its buoyancy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
