Definitions for ships
ships

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1. Ships

   Large vessels propelled by power or sail used for transportation on rivers, seas, oceans, or other navigable waters. Boats are smaller vessels propelled by oars, paddles, sail, or power; they may or may not have a deck.

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1. ships

   Plural form of ship.

   The cruise company had a number of cruise ships each with a different route providing a voyage of beauty to its customers.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 6, 2016  

2. ships

   Verb for of the word ship.

   The ship's crew were delighted to serve their customers and loved their jobs.

   Submitted by MaryC on October 24, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'ships' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3598

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'ships' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3987

How to pronounce ships?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say ships in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ships in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ships in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of ships in a Sentence

1. Vice Admiral Yoji Koda:

   I used to be heavily involved in defense force planning ... Maybe the best way is proportional to the number of ships to be built.

2. Adam Smith:

   What I am really worried about is not the amount of money, but how we spend it, you decide you want a 355-ship Navy, so you start building the ships, but then you don’t have the money to finish them. We are going to need some long-term planning based on realistic numbers.

3. Riki Ellison:

   It proves that sensors from another country's ship can be used to give the Navy early warning of potential threats, and those ships can be used to protect American ships.

4. White House:

   Based on their analysis they have not detected any sort of threat or threatening activities, they are monitoring movement of the ships but the intent of this is still unclear.

5. Cao Weidong:

   Modern naval warfare often requires the mobilization and deployment of a large number of ships while the mass production of naval ships in peacetime is not economically sensible, therefore, it is a common practice that shipbuilders reserve some military application platforms on their civilian vessels so they can serve the navy in wartime.

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