remain vs ship

remain

verb
  • To continue in a state of being. 

  • To await; to be left to. 

  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. 

  • To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. 

  • To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared. 

noun
  • That which is left; relic; remainder. 

  • That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. 

  • Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works. 

ship

verb
  • To go all in. 

  • 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). 

  • Leave, depart, scram. 

  • To send by water-borne transport. 

  • 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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