| shelf | (noun) a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects | - |
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| (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: ledge |
| shelfful | (noun) the amount that a shelf will hold | - |
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| shelflike | (adjective) resembling a shelf (or considered to resemble a shelf) | - |
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| shelfy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelvy, shoaly |
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| shell | (noun) the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod | - |
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| (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shield |
| (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun | - |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, scale |
| (noun) the housing or outer covering of something | Synonyms: case, casing |
| (noun) a very light narrow racing boat | Synonyms: racing shell |
| (noun) a rigid covering that envelops an object | - |
| (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: eggshell |
| (noun) the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts | - |
| (noun) the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals | - |
| (verb) remove from its shell or outer covering | - |
| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: husk |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) hit the pitches of hard and regularly | - |
| (verb) look for and collect shells by the seashore | - |
| (verb) fall out of the pod or husk | - |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: blast |
| shellac | (noun) a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood | Synonyms: shellac varnish |
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| (noun) lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white | - |
| (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellack |
| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| shelled | (adjective) of animals or fruits that have a shell | - |
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| sheller | (noun) a worker who removes shells (as of peas or oysters) | - |
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| shellfire | (noun) shooting artillery shells | - |
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| shellfish | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk |
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| (noun) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) | - |
| shellflower | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead |
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| (noun) cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes | Synonyms: Alpinia speciosa, Alpinia Zerumbet, Languas speciosa, shall-flower, shell ginger |
| shelling | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment |
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| shellproof | (adjective) able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells | Synonyms: bombproof |
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| shelter | (noun) a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger | - |
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| (noun) protective covering that provides protection from the weather | - |
| (noun) temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons | - |
| (noun) a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings | Synonyms: tax shelter |
| (noun) the condition of being protected | Synonyms: protection |
| (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
| (verb) provide shelter for | - |
| shelterbelt | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: windbreak |
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| sheltered | (adjective) protected from danger or bad weather | - |
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| shelve | (verb) place on a shelf | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, table |
| shelver | (noun) a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves | - |
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| shelvy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shoaly |
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| shemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: schemozzle |
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| shenanigan | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness |
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| (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, trickery, wile |
| shepherd | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, sheepman |
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| (noun) a clergyman who watches over a group of people | - |
| (verb) tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats | - |
| (verb) watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils | - |
| shepherdess | (noun) a woman shepherd | - |
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| sherbert | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbet |
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| sherbet | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbert |
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| sherd | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: fragment, shard |
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| sheriff | (noun) the principal law-enforcement officer in a county | - |
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| sherlock | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus |
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| sherry | (noun) dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif | - |
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| shew | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, show |
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| shiatsu | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: acupressure, G-Jo |
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| shibah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shiva, shivah |
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| shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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| (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
| shield | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shell |
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| (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: buckler |
| (noun) a protective covering or structure | - |
| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, harbour |
| shielded | (adjective) (used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury | - |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shielding | (noun) the act of shielding from harm | - |
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| (noun) a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay | - |
| (noun) shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference | - |
| shift | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: switch, switching |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, sack |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy |
| (noun) the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | Synonyms: shift key |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: displacement |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
| (noun) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault |
| (noun) the time period during which you are at work | Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, switch |
| (verb) move and exchange for another | - |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, switch |
| (verb) move from one setting or context to another | - |
| (verb) change in quality | - |
| (verb) change gears | - |
| (verb) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change | - |
| (verb) use a shift key on a keyboard | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble |
| shifter | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, gearstick |
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| (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: sceneshifter |
| shiftily | (adverb) in a shifty manner | - |
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| shiftiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being changeable in direction | - |
| shifting | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: unfirm |
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| (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifty |
| (adjective) continuously varying | - |
| (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shift |
| shiftless | (adjective) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative | - |
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| shiftlessness | (noun) a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition | - |
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| shifty | (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: devious |
| shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| shigellosis | (noun) an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains | Synonyms: bacillary dysentery |
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| shiitake | (noun) edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe | Synonyms: Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Lentinus edodes, Oriental black mushroom, shiitake mushroom |
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| shiksa | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shikse |
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| shikse | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shiksa |
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| shill | (noun) a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others | - |
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| (verb) act as a shill | - |
| shillalah | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillelagh |
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| shillelagh | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillalah |
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| shilling | (noun) an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound | - |
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| (noun) a former monetary unit in Great Britain | Synonyms: bob, British shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Kenyan shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Somalian shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Tanzanian shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Ugandan shilling |
| shillyshally | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, procrastination |
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| (verb) be uncertain and vague | - |
| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, stall |
| shim | (noun) a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices | - |
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| shimmer | (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: play |
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| (verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
| (verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
| shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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| shimmy | (noun) lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips | - |
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| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, slip, teddy |
| (noun) an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels) | - |
| (verb) dance a shimmy | - |
| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: wobble |
| shin | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia |
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| (noun) the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg | Synonyms: shin bone |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| shinbone | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, tibia |
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| shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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| shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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| shine | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency |
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| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
| (verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
| (verb) be clear and obvious | - |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |
| shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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| (noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
| (noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
| shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
| (noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
| (verb) cover with shingles | - |
| shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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| shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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| shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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| (noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
| shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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| shininess | (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, lustre, sheen |
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| shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
| (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: polishing |
| shinleaf | (noun) North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters | Synonyms: Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley |
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| shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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| shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
| shinpad | (noun) a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins | Synonyms: shin guard |
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| shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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| shiny | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining |
| ship | (noun) a vessel that carries passengers or freight | - |
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| (verb) place on board a ship | - |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, transport |
| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: embark |
| (verb) travel by ship | - |
| (verb) hire for work on a ship | - |
| shipboard | (adjective) casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship | - |
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| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shipbuilding | (noun) the construction of ships | Synonyms: ship building |
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| shipload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, carload |
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| shipmate | (noun) an associate on the same ship with you | - |
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| shipment | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload |
| shipowner | (noun) someone who owns a ship or a share in a ship | - |
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| shipper | (noun) a company in the business of shipping freight | - |
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| (noun) someone who ships goods | - |
| shipping | (noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: transport, transportation |
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| (noun) conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry | Synonyms: cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels |
| shipshape | (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: trim, well-kept |
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| shipside | (noun) the part of a wharf that is next to a ship | - |
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| shipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: slipway, ways |
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| (noun) a canal large enough for seagoing vessels | Synonyms: ship canal |
| shipworm | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: teredinid |
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| shipwreck | (noun) a wrecked ship (or a part of one) | - |
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| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: wreck |
| (noun) an irretrievable loss | - |
| (verb) destroy a ship | - |
| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| shipyard | (noun) a workplace where ships are built or repaired | - |
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| shire | (noun) British breed of large heavy draft horse | Synonyms: shire horse |
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| (noun) a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county | - |
| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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