SHIPS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

ships 1 of 2

noun

plural of ship

as in boats

a large craft for travel by water a cruise ship plying the warm waters of the Caribbean

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ships

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of ship

as in sends

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another we shipped those books out yesterday

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Recent Examples of ships

Noun

Children swim as ships are seen anchored in the Strait of Hormuz on August 10, 2026 off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026 State officials say keeping the Coronado Bridge physically sound is crucial to the region and the nation because the bridge’s navigational channels are used by Navy aircraft carriers and cargo ships from the National City Marine Terminal. — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2026 Navy workhorse Commissioned in 1995, the USS Boxer belongs to the Wasp-class of amphibious assault ships. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026 While Iran has attacked dozens of ships that attempted to travel the southern route, many ships have recently chosen to ignore Iran’s demands and cross the strait with the promise of protection from US naval forces. — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026 Maintaining that strength requires a robust industrial base that delivers new ships on schedule and keeps America’s existing vessels afloat. — Matt Reisener, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2026 The couple doesn’t spend all their time on the same ship, rotating between two or three different ships over the course of a year. — Scott Laird, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2026 Similarly, for the protagonist of Conrad’s story, Captain Whalley, the true life is the life of ships, and changes of fates onshore seem only laterally relevant, near unreal. — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026 Some still laden with weapons, the ships belonged to Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet that was deliberately sunk near the end of the war as German troops retreated from Romania and Soviet forces advanced deeper into Europe. — CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Verb

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck aren’t celebrities but second-class citizens forced to order their shoddy goods from Acme, a monopoly that ships everything in oddly familiar blue and brown boxes. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 The result can take many forms—a product team that ships a working prototype before commissioning user research, or a strategy leader who presents a direction and asks which assumptions are wrong instead of asking which direction to take. — Nataliya Andreychuk, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The flower ships directly to their new doorstep and comes beautifully arranged with moss and a support stake. — Emma Ashe, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2026 Hernández sells bunches of medicinal herbs — his most popular online item — and ships them all over the country. — Delia Sauer, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026 The software also ships with a surprisingly large library of pre-tuned Qidi filament profiles built in, covering everything from standard PLA and PETG to higher-temperature engineering materials. — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026 When shopping through an online marketplace, check the seller’s identity, not only who ships the order. — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 27 July 2026 The company builds data centers at its two California facilities and ships them to states including Nevada, Arizona and Texas. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 27 July 2026 Saudi Arabia ships roughly 230,000 barrels of diesel through the Suez Canal from refineries close to Yemen, putting them at risk of Houthi attack, according to Homayoun Falakshahi, head of crude oil analysis at Kpler. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 22 July 2026

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The team designed miniature boats with three cavities tuned to different audible frequencies, enabling them to steer the boat in a particular direction by changing the frequency of the sound waves from a speaker.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
The design introduced major changes to the forward section of the submarine, including a Large Aperture Bow sonar array and two Virginia Payload Tubes replacing the 12 individual vertical-launch tubes used on earlier boats.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of boats

Noun

The technology was also tested against deceptive behaviour, an in a different scenario, fishing boats appeared to retreat while vessels from another direction accelerated toward the coastguard ship.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
Four coastguard vessels from northern Cyprus and a passenger vessel took part in rescue operations, the Interior Ministry said, as well as two coastguard helicopters to the area.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of vessels

Verb

The Sioux Falls regional water reclamation facility, which transports and treats wastewater from the city and surrounding communities is receiving $81 million in the budget.

— Gabriel Brito, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 28 Aug. 2026
And soon Scotty’s got a new task, too, after A’Sha transports him to a Jeffries tube to get the pod ready.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of transports

Noun

At least five San Diego warships will participate in RimPac, as well as dozens of foreign vessels, including BAP Pisco, a Peruvian amphibious warship that arrived in San Diego on Monday.

— Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2026
Russia’s 2022 Warship Law also requires 90 days' advance notice for foreign warships to transit the passage, limits the route to one warship at a time, and requires submarines to surface.

— Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026