Definition von q-ship im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- -ship
- a suffix placed after a noun indicating the state of being what the noun means
- Delivered Ex Ship
- Meaning the seller pays for all transportation and insurance until the transporting ship has arrived at the port of destination
- Free Alongside Ship
- Meaning the seller pays for transportation to the port, and the buyer pays for the rest of the transportation
- air ship
- To transport goods by air
To expedite their arrival they would air ship the parts.
- cable ship
- a vessel fitted for laying and repairing submarine cables; it has a large roller built over the bows for paying out cable
- capital ship
- the most important type of warship in a nation's fleet
- cargo ship
- A ship that carries cargo
- coffin ship
- A ship that carried Irish emigrants escaping the potato famine, usually with an extremely high mortality rate onboard
- container ship
- A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers
- cruise ship
- A passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are considered an essential part of the experience
- drop ship
- To deliver goods for a business directly to its customers, as though the business owned a relevant inventory, but the manufacturer is the real source of that delivery
If you drop ship the orders, then you don't need to own the products; thus, fewer of your customers suspect you're acting as a middle man.
- fire ship
- A wooden ship set afire and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the intent to set the enemy fleet afire too
- ghost ship
- An abandoned, possibly adrift ship (sea or space ship) that is haunted
- goddess-ship
- goddesshood, the state or position of being a goddess
- hospital ship
- A large ship that is intended to serve as a mobile hospital with appropriate equipment and personnel
- jump ship
- To depart a project without warning
I couldn't hack it as a teacher, so I jumped ship and flew back to Australia.
- jump ship
- To part from a ship
As soon as the battleship docked in Singapore, Roger jumped ship, never to return.
- landing ship
- a sea-going military light ferry designed to assault shores that are held against them, and disembark forces directly onto the shore
- like rats from a sinking ship
- Quickly but in futility, away from a failing project
- merchant ship
- A cargo vessel
- mother ship
- A vessel or aircraft that serves or carries a smaller vessel or vessels that operate independently from it
- mystery ship
- A popular name during World War I for the secret British Q-ships, also known as "decoy vessels" or "special service ships", which served as submarine decoy vessels
- passenger ship
- A ship whose primary function is to carry passengers
- pirate ship
- Any ship manned by pirates
- rocket ship
- A ship armed with rockets
And there was a further group, including Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80), who had been a POW in Germany, and William Golding (1911–93), who had commanded a Royal Navy rocket ship, who were propelled by the ordeals of war to examine the complexities of human nature and human society.
- rocket ship
- A spacecraft propelled by a rocket engine
- sailing ship
- A ship with masts and sails, powered by the wind
- shape up or ship out
- To either improve one's behavior or else be required to leave; to either improve one's performance in an activity or else withdraw from that activity completely
Portions of those letters quoted by Bruccoli indicate that though Hemingway could be sympathetic, he used a lot of ink telling Fitzgerald to shape up or ship out.
- ship
- To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel
We were shipping so much water I was sure we would capsize.
- ship
- To send a parcel or container to a recipient (by any means of transport)
- ship
- A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship
- ship
- To be a fan or promote a certain ship
- ship
- To send by water-borne transport
- ship
- A sailing vessel with three square-rigged masts
- ship
- A water-borne vessel larger than a boat
- ship
- A fictional romantic relationship between two persons, either real of themselves fictional
- ship biscuit
- hardtack
- ship of the line
- a large square-rigged warship large enough to have a place in the line of battle. with up to 140 guns on at least two decks. A capital ship from the age of sail, superior to a frigate; usually, a seventy-four, or three-decker. (Totten)
- ship of war
- warship
- ship out
- To leave, get out, or resign
With a bit of luck the guard room will be empty, we'll grab some coats, press some buttons and just ship out of here.
- ship out
- To get rid of, expel, or discard
As he stamps his own character on the team, Kosmina has shipped out the likes of Mark Rudan, Ufuk Talay, David Zdrilic, Ruben Zadkovich and Patrick da Silva.
- ship out
- To depart, especially for a sea voyage or military assignment
The brigade is scheduled to ship out for final training in Okinawa by mid-November.
- ship out
- To send, especially by means of a transport vehicle
The winery recently shipped out the first orders of wine under the Falcon Crest label.
- ship rat
- An alternative term for the black rat
- ship rats
- plural form of ship rat
- ship's bells
- The strokes on a ship's bell, every half hour, to mark the passage of time. In each of the day's six watches of four hours, one bell marks the end of the first half hour, eight bells marks the end of the watch
- ship's biscuit
- hardtack
- ship's cousin
- an esteemed or preferred passenger aboard ship
You're a ship's cousin, I tell ye, Master Doo-but-little, roared the steward; some such matter as a ship's cousin, sir...
- sinking ship
- A doomed cause; a lost cause; a loosing cause; a loosing proposition; an impending debacle; an on-going disaster; a bad deal
A great start two months ago and now their company's a sinking ship.
- sister ship
- a ship built to the same design as another
- spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
- To have something important fail for want of a small amount of money or effort
- surface ship
- A military (naval) vessel designed for operation on the marine surface, as distinguished from a submarine or other types of vessels
- tall ship
- a large sailing ship with multiple masts and rigged sails, usually used as a training vessel
- that ship has sailed
- That opportunity has already passed
- tight ship
- a well-organized and highly disciplined organization
- transport ship
- A ship that is used to transport military personnel; a troop ship
- steam ship
- ship driven by steam power
- ship of the line
- A type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through to the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear
- ship
- {n} a vessel with three masts, square rigged
- ship
- {v} to put on board a ship, send, transport
- Littoral Combat Ship
- (Askeri) The Littoral Combat Ship is the first of the U.S. Navy's next-generation surface combatants. Intended as a relatively small surface vessel for operations in the littoral region (close to shore), the LCS is smaller than the Navy's guided missile frigates, and have been compared to the corvette of international usage. However, the LCS adds the capabilities of a small assault transport with a flight deck and hangar large enough to base two SH-60 Seahawk helicopters, the capability to recover and launch small boats from a stern ramp, and enough cargo volume and payload to deliver a small assault force with armored vehicles to a roll-on/roll-off port facility. Although the LCS design offers air defense and surface-to-surface capabilities comparable to destroyers with 57 mm guns, torpedo and missile launchers, the concept emphasizes speed, flexible mission module space and a shallow draft
- cargo ship
- Tweendeckers are general cargo ships with two or sometimes three decks. The upper deck is called the main deck or weather deck, and the lower deck is the tweendeck. Cargo such as bales, bags, or drums can stacked in the tweendeck space, atop the tweendeck. Beneath the tweendeck is the hold space, used for general cargo. Cargo ships that have fittings to carry standard shipping containers and retractable tweendecks (that can be moved out of the way) so that the ship can carry bulk cargo are known as multipurpose vessels (M/V)
- like a ship without a rudder
- (deyim) Without a purpose
- royal mail ship
- Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship, Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail. They have the right to fly the pennant of the Royal Mail when sailing
- short ship
- Shut out