freight vs ship

freight

verb
  • To transport (goods). 

  • To load or store (goods, etc.). 

  • To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load. 

  • Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo. 

  • To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers. 

noun
  • Payment for transportation. 

  • Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage. 

  • A burden, a load. 

  • The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation. 

  • Cultural or emotional associations. 

ship

verb
  • To send by water-borne transport. 

  • To trade or send a player to another team. 

  • To engage to serve on board a vessel. 

  • To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel. 

  • To pass (from one person to another). 

  • To go all in. 

  • Leave, depart, scram. 

  • To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession. 

  • To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport). 

  • To embark on a ship. 

  • To put or secure in its place. 

  • To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts. 

  • To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch. 

noun
  • A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense. 

  • A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton). 

  • A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship. 

  • A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction. 

  • The third card of the Lenormand deck. 

  • A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat. 

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