Word Meanings - SHIPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns. 2. Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.

Related words: (words related to SHIPPING)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• SHIPPO
  Cloisonné enamel on a background of metal or porcelain.
• SHIPPER
  One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
• FORWARD
  1. Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet. 2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty. Only they would that we should remember the poor;
• SHIP-RIGGED
  Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• SHIP RAILWAY
  An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs. A railway on which to transport vessels overland between bodies of water.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• FORWARDLY
  Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
• CLERKLINESS
  Scholarship.
• TRANSFEREE
  The person to whom a transfer in made.
• CONCERNEDLY
  In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• CLERK-ALE
  A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. T. Warton.
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• RELATRIX
  A female relator.
• SHIPSHAPE
  Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly. Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for
• SHIPPING
  1. Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns. 2. Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• SHIPOWNER
  Owner of a ship or ships.
• WORSHIPFUL
  Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv.
• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• BABYSHIP
  The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.
• QUESTORSHIP
  The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• BEADLESHIP
  The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle. A. Wood.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PROCURATORSHIP
  The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• PRIMOGENITURESHIP
  The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke.