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Large watercraft
A ship is a large watercraft designed for travel across the surface of a body of water, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized tasks
Ship
Topics referred to by the same term
up ship or -ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ship is a large vessel that floats on water, specifically the ocean and the sea. Ship or ships may
Ship_(disambiguation)
Transfer of cargo at sea
Ship-to-ship (STS) transfer operation is the transfer of cargo between seagoing ships positioned alongside each other, either while stationary or underway
Ship-to-ship_cargo_transfer
Topics referred to by the same term
Ship-to-ship may refer to: Ship-to-ship cargo transfer Ship-to-ship radiotelephony Type 90 Ship-to-Ship Missile This disambiguation page lists articles
Ship-to-ship
Radios operating in the very high frequency maritime mobile band
two-way radio transceivers on ships and watercraft used for bidirectional voice communication from ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore (for example with harbormasters)
Marine_VHF_radio
British passenger liner that sank in 1912
time White Star Line had lost a ship on her maiden voyage, the first being RMS Tayleur in 1854. Titanic was the largest ship afloat upon entering service
Titanic
International cruise line
blue color scheme. This trademark funnel design is built onto the line's ships. Carnival is ranked first on the list of largest cruise lines based on passengers
Carnival_Cruise_Line
US cargo ship class of WWII
Liberty ships are a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept
Liberty_ship
Thought experiment about identity over time
The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and common thought experiment about whether an object (in the most common stating of
Ship_of_Theseus
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners which are primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans
List_of_largest_cruise_ships
Passenger ship used for pleasure voyages
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on
Cruise_ship
17th-century Swedish warship
pronunciation: [²vɑːsa] ) is a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,300 m (1,400 yd) into her maiden voyage on 10
Vasa_(ship)
terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water (mostly though not necessarily
Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z)
Glossary_of_nautical_terms_(M–Z)
Ship or vessel that carries goods and materials
cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship designed to transport goods, commodities, and materials across seas and oceans to help others, or to ship to stores
Cargo_ship
Naval warfare force of the United Kingdom
active and commissioned ships (including submarines as well as one historic ship, HMS Victory) in the Royal Navy, plus 9 ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Royal_Navy
States Navy has approximately 465 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 40 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement
List of current ships of the United States Navy
List_of_current_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Ship may refer to: The Ship (film), a 1921 Italian silent historical drama film The Ship (TV series)
The_Ship
Type of abbreviation used to describe ships
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous
Ship_prefix
Small naval vessel
A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence
Patrol_boat
1912 maritime disaster
she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) on 14 April. She sank two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 ship's time (05:18 GMT) on 15 April, resulting
Sinking_of_the_Titanic
Ceremony placing a ship in active service
Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts
Ship_commissioning
Topics referred to by the same term
ghost ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ghost ship is a vessel with no living crew aboard. Ghost Ship may also refer to: The Ghost Ship, a 1943
Ghost_Ship
Cruise line registered in Switzerland
Co. purchased the Monterey to sail for their StarLauro Cruises brand. The ship retained the original name she had used while sailing with Matson Lines.
MSC_Cruises
Warship of 17th–19th centuries
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line
Ship_of_the_line
Japanese-bred Thoroughbred racehorse
Gold Ship (Japanese: ゴールドシップ, Hepburn: Gōrudo Shippu; foaled 6 March 2009) is a retired Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which began
Gold_Ship
Type of warship
capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied. In the 17th to early 18th centuries the term "frigate" was loosely given to any full-rigged ship built
Frigate
Maritime tradition
captain goes down with the ship" is the maritime tradition that a sea captain holds the ultimate responsibility for both the ship and everyone embarked on
The captain goes down with the ship
The_captain_goes_down_with_the_ship
Acts of robbery or criminality at sea
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically intending to steal cargo
Piracy
Type of flat-bottomed barge
flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships. Lighters were traditionally unpowered and were moved and steered using
Lighter_(barge)
US Navy battleship sunk in 1941
mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state, she was the second and last ship in the Pennsylvania class. After being commissioned in 1916, Arizona remained
USS_Arizona
2022 video game by Harbour Masters
Ship of Harkinian is an unofficial open source port of the 1998 Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that runs on Microsoft Windows
Ship_of_Harkinian
Ship with no living people on board
A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman,
Ghost_ship
Tax in medieval England
Ship money was a tax of medieval origin levied intermittently in the Kingdom of England until the middle of the 17th century. Assessed typically on the
Ship_money
Fictional faction in Star Trek
to the specific frequencies on which these weapons are projected once a ship or an individual drone is struck down by them. Later attempts to modulate
Borg
2002 American film
Ghost Ship is a 2002 supernatural horror film directed by Steve Beck from a screenplay by Mark Hanlon and John Pogue. Its plot follows a marine salvage
Ghost_Ship_(2002_film)
Type of warship
An amphibious assault ship (AAS) is a type of amphibious warfare ship designed for spearheading amphibious incursions of marines into enemy territories
Amphibious_assault_ship
Frigate class being built for the Royal Navy
Canadian and Norwegian navies. The programme, known as the Global Combat Ship, was launched by the British Ministry of Defence to partially replace the
Type_26_frigate
The ship types in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) include aircraft carriers, submarines, (both nuclear and conventional), amphibious
List of ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy
List_of_ships_of_the_People's_Liberation_Army_Navy
Species of rodent
The black rat (Rattus rattus), also known as the roof rat, ship rat, or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the stereotypical rat genus Rattus
Black_rat
Nautical terms for direction
images of each other. One asymmetric feature is where access to a boat, ship, or aircraft is at the side; it is usually only on the port side (hence the
Port_and_starboard
Scandinavian ships of the Viking Age
Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia throughout the Middle Ages. The boat-types were quite varied, depending on what
Viking_ship
1924 short story by Richard Connell
The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls from a ship and swims to a mysterious island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by
The_Most_Dangerous_Game
Cruise line operation, subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company
in Celebration, Florida. As of 2026, Disney Cruise Line operates eight ships: Disney Magic, Disney Wonder, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy, Disney Wish
Disney_Cruise_Line
Preserved Viking ship
The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved longship (probably a karve) discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near
Oseberg_ship
Class of American littoral combat ships
The Freedom-class is one of two classes of the littoral combat ship program built for the United States Navy. The Freedom-class was proposed by a consortium
Freedom-class littoral combat ship
Freedom-class_littoral_combat_ship
COVID-19 pandemic, the disease spread to a number of cruise ships, with the nature of such ships – including crowded semi-enclosed areas, increased exposure
COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships
COVID-19_pandemic_on_cruise_ships
Disposal process for scrap
Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving
Ship_breaking
Ship designed for operations near shore
littoral combat ship (LCS) is a relatively small surface vessel designed for littoral warfare in near-shore operations. There are two LCS ship classes deployed
Littoral_combat_ship
Cruise line
Line. Home Lines' ships had held two of the five contracts offered by the Government of Bermuda to cruise lines, giving the ships priority berthing arrangement
Celebrity_Cruises
ULCC tanker, longest ship in history
Knock Nevis, and Mont—was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship in history. It was built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Yokosuka
Seawise_Giant
2022. As of April 2024, SN20 (Ship 20) remains in the Rocket Garden. Ship 21 was scrapped before being completed. Ship 22 moved to the Rocket Garden in
List_of_Starship_vehicles
Large wind-powered water vessel
sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to be "ship-rigged"
Sailing_ship
Danish 1913 barque
Danish East Asiatic Company in 1921, it was the world's largest sailing ship at the time, and primarily served for sail training of young cadets. The
København_(ship)
Watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size
Catamarans range in size from small sailing or rowing vessels to large naval ships and roll-on/roll-off car ferries. The structure connecting a catamaran's
Catamaran
Sailing ship; site of 1961 mass murder
based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ship was scuttled following an act of mass murder by the ship's captain, Julian Harvey, on November 12, 1961
Bluebelle_(ship)
ships presents a picture which can never be fully agreed upon in the absence of greater data availability and a consistent standard for which ships are
List of active Russian Navy ships
List_of_active_Russian_Navy_ships
Ship that carries cargo in intermodal containers
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a
Container_ship
Destiny-class cruise ship
Carnival Sunrise (formerly Carnival Triumph) is a Destiny-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. As she and her three younger sisters (Carnival
Carnival_Sunrise
Cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation & plc
purpose-built cruise ship Italia. Princess, who marketed the ship as Princess Italia, but never officially renamed her, used the ship to inaugurate their
Princess_Cruises
Olympic-class ocean liner
White Star Line's Olympic class of ocean liners and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the younger sister of RMS Olympic and
HMHS_Britannic
Topics referred to by the same term
Ship of fools is an allegory that has long been a fixture in Western literature and art. Ship of Fools may refer to: Ship of Fools (satire), a 1494 satire
Ship_of_Fools
Ship of the same class or design as another
A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship. Such vessels share a nearly identical hull and superstructure
Sister_ship
Structural element of watercraft
because they resemble the human rib. The ship's outer planking and inner sheathing are attached to the ribs. For ships that are too large for a rib to be made
Rib_(nautical)
The names of commissioned ships of the United States Navy all start with USS, for United States Ship. Non-commissioned, primarily civilian-crewed vessels
United_States_Navy_ships
Shipping route across Central America
Locks then lower the ships at the other end. The original locks are 33.5 meters (110 ft) wide and allow the passage of Panamax ships. A third, wider lane
Panama_Canal
Singapore-registered container ship
MV Dali is a Neopanamax container ship built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. On 26 March 2024, she caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in
MV_Dali
Type of large warship
Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several operational
Cruiser
Navy branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
acceptance. Ships were disarmed, and some of them, such as the battleship Nagato, were taken by the Allied Powers as reparations. The remaining ships were used
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force
British businessman and shipbuilder (1873–1912)
the RMS Titanic. He perished along with more than 1,500 people when the ship sank on her maiden voyage. Thomas Andrews Jr. was born on 7 February 1873
Thomas_Andrews
Stealth missile destroyer class of the US Navy
re-purposed the ships for surface warfare. In 2023, the Navy began removing the AGS from the ships and replaced them with hypersonic missiles. The ships are classed
Zumwalt-class_destroyer
This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Container ships have been built in increasingly
List of largest container ships
List_of_largest_container_ships
Topics referred to by the same term
Ship may refer to: Look up abandon ship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abandonment of ship Abandon Ship (Knife Party album), 2014 Abandon Ship,
Abandon_Ship
Dense biscuit often for naval and military use
bread, sea biscuit, soda crackers, sea bread (as rations for sailors), ship's biscuit, and pejoratively as dog biscuits, molar breakers, sheet iron, tooth
Hardtack
East Slavic Folk Tale
The Flying Ship (Ukrainian: «Летючий корабель», romanized: Letiuchyi korabel; Russian: «Летучий корабль», romanized: Letuchiy korabl) is an East Slavic
Flying_Ship
Small warship
navies to "lieutenant commander", derives from the name of this type of ship. The rank is the most junior of three "captain" ranks in several European
Corvette
Cruise missile
Yakhont (Russian: Яхонт; English: ruby), is a Soviet/Russian supersonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a ramjet version of
P-800_Oniks
Ship converted for use as a detention center
A prison ship, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war
Prison_ship
Topics referred to by the same term
Treasure ship or treasure fleet may refer to: Chinese treasure ship, a type of large wooden ship in the fleet of admiral Zheng He, 15th-century Ming dynasty
Treasure_ship
French cruise ship operator
first French cruise ship. The company operates eleven ships, all of which operate under the French flag. Ponant started out with one ship, Le Ponant, a three
Compagnie_du_Ponant
Steam-propelled warship protected by armor plates
in 1862 during the American Civil War, when they operated against wooden ships, and against each other at the Battle of Hampton Roads in Virginia. Their
Ironclad_warship
Construction of ships and floating vessels
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. In modern times, it normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard
Shipbuilding
Ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare
A warship or combatant ship is a naval ship that is used for naval warfare. Usually they belong to the navy branch of the armed forces of a nation, though
Warship
Pole used in rigging of a sailing vessel
of spars, erected vertically or near-vertically on the median line of a ship or boat. A mast may carry sails, spars, and derricks. It may also give necessary
Mast_(sailing)
Index of articles associated with the same name
self-propelled vessel, such as: Heavy-lift ship, which partially submerge to allow their cargo (another ship) to float into place for transport Narco-submarine
Semi-submersible
Class of Japanese mine countermeasure vessels
the second ship was also approved in the following year's plan. The ships have many design elements in common with the 8,900-ton transport ship (05LST) planned
Uraga-class mine countermeasure vessel
Uraga-class_mine_countermeasure_vessel
Boat, smaller than a steamship, using steam
led to the larger steamship, which is a seaworthy and often ocean-going ship. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for 'Screw
Steamboat
Hypothesised early Australian shipwreck
The Mahogany Ship is a putative early Australian shipwreck that is believed by some to lie beneath the sand in the Armstrong Bay area, approximately 3
Mahogany_Ship
A ship identifier refers to one of several types of identifiers used for maritime vessels. An identifier may be a proper noun (La Niña); a proper noun
Ship_identifier
Topics referred to by the same term
Bay, an embayment of the Pacific Ocean into Pitcairn Island, named for the ship Bounty Islands, a small group of 13 islets and numerous rocks in the south
Bounty
Type of warship
cutters. In technical terms, even the more specialised bomb vessels and fire ships were classed by the Royal Navy as sloops-of-war, and in practice these were
Sloop-of-war
Cruise line; former transatlantic passenger and cargo line
cruise ships carry the names of former transatlantic ocean liners operated by the company. Its current flagship, Rotterdam (2020), is the seventh ship to
Holland_America_Line
U.S. anti-ship missile
The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security). The AGM-84E
Harpoon_(missile)
The world's longest ships are listed according to their overall length (LOA), which is the maximum length of the vessel measured between the extreme points
List_of_longest_ships
Ceremonial process of transferring a newly built vessel to the water
Ceremonial ship launching involves the performing of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water. It is a nautical tradition
Ceremonial_ship_launching
First of a series or class of ships
The lead ship, name ship, or class leader is the first of a series or class of ships that are all constructed according to the same general design. The
Lead_ship
Coastal areas of Uppland province in Sweden
Viking Age, Roden was divided into skeppslag ("ship districts"), each responsible for supplying ships and crews when the king issued a call to the leidang
Roslagen
Ice class
to the ice class assigned to a ship by a classification society based on the Unified Requirements for Polar Class Ships developed by the International
Polar_Class
Powered lighter-than-air aircraft
pioneer years of aeronautics, terms such as "airship", "air-ship", "air ship" and "ship of the air" meant any kind of navigable or dirigible flying machine
Airship
disease on cruise ships is a hazard associated with cruises. Outbreaks of contagious diseases can spread quickly due to the confined cruise ship environment
Infectious disease on cruise ships
Infectious_disease_on_cruise_ships
Historical era when sailing ships dominated global trade and warfare
at the latest, the mid-19th century, in which the dominance of sailing ships in global trade and warfare culminated. Marked by the introduction of naval
Age_of_Sail
SHIP
SHIP
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : according to Black, a habitational name from a place in Aberdeenshire named Kelman.English : occupational name for a maker of caps or cauls, from Middle English kelle + man.English : perhaps an occupational name for a bargeman, from Middle English kele ‘ship’, ‘barge’. Compare Keeler.Americanized spelling of German Kellman.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the male personal name Kelman, a variant of Kalman.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from a place in Roxburghshire named Eckford.The surname Eckford appears in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, most notably with a shipbuilder from Irvine, Scotland, named Henry Eckford (1775–1832). At age 16 he emigrated to Quebec, then to New York City (1796), where he ran shipyards and built steamboats, including the Robert Fulton.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Shipirist | ஷிபீரிஸà¯à®¤
Lord Vishnu
Shipirist | ஷிபீரிஸà¯à®¤
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Shippey.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : local name for someone who lived in a small cottage or temporary dwelling, Middle English logge (Old French loge, of Germanic origin). The term was used in particular of a cabin erected by masons working on the site of a particular construction project, such as a church or cathedral, and so it was probably in many cases equivalent to an occupational name for a mason. Reaney suggests that one early form, atte Logge, might sometimes have denoted the warden of a masons’ lodge.Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), the influential U.S. senator from MA, was born in Boston, the only son of John Ellerton Lodge, a prosperous merchant and owner of swift clipper ships engaged in commerce with China, one of several Lodges who emigrated from England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metronymic from the medieval female personal name Madde, a form of Maud (see Mould 1) or Magdalen (see Maudlin).James Madison (1751–1836), 4th President of the U.S. (1809–17), was born in VA, the son of a planter. He was descended from John Madison, a ship’s carpenter from Gloucester, England, who had settled in VA in about 1653.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a seaman, from Middle English galy(e) ‘ship’, ‘barge’ (Old French galie, of uncertain origin).English : nickname for someone who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, from a reduced form of the place name Galilee.Scottish : variant of Gall 1, from the derivative gallda or the collective form gallaich.German : presumably a derivative of Gall.Northern French : variant of Gallet. This name is also found in French Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a sailor, from Middle Dutch hoey ‘cargo ship’.Northern Irish : variant of Howey 2 and Haughey.Scottish : habitational name from some unidentified minor place named Hoy, or from the Orkney island of Hoy, which was named in Old Norse as Háey, from há ‘high’ + ey ‘island’.Danish (Høy) : nickname for a tall person, from høj ‘high’.
Girl/Female
Tamil
A river
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Loingsigh ‘descendant of Loingseach’, a personal name meaning ‘mariner’ (from long ‘ship’). This is now a common surname in Ireland but of different local origins, for example chieftain families in counties Antrim and Tipperary, while in Ulster and Connacht there were families called Ó Loingseacháin who later shortened their name to Ó Loingsigh and also Anglicized it as Lynch.Irish (Anglo-Norman) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Linseach, itself a Gaelicized form of Anglo-Norman French de Lench, the version found in old records. This seems to be a local name, but its origin is unknown. One family of bearers of this name was of Norman origin, but became one of the most important tribes of Galway.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or hillside, Old English hlinc, or perhaps a habitational name from Lynch in Dorset or Somerset or Linch in Sussex, all named with this word.This name was brought independently from Ireland to North America by many bearers. Jonack Lynch emigrated from Ireland to SC shortly after the first settlement of that colony in 1670. His grandson Thomas Lynch, born in 1727 in Berkeley Co., SC, was a member of both Continental Congresses, and his great-grandson, also called Thomas Lynch, born 1749 in Winyaw, SC, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a boatbuilder or a mariner, from Middle English ship ‘ship’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic name for a shipbuilder (see Shipp).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a shepherd, Middle English schepman (literally ‘sheep man’).English : occupational name for a mariner, or occasionally perhaps for a boatbuilder, Middle English schipman (literally ‘ship man’).
Boy/Male
Tamil
Full checked
Female
Hebrew
(ש×ִפְרָה) Hebrew name SHIPHRAH means "beauty, brightness." In the bible, this is the name of two midwives.Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a boatman or boatbuilder, from an agent derivative of Middle English kele ‘ship’, ‘barge’ (from Middle Dutch kiel).Americanized spelling of German Kühler, from a variant of an old personal name (see Keeling) or a variant of Kuhl.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, French, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Lithuanian, Czech and Slovak (Jonáš), and Hungarian (Jónás)
English, German, French, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Lithuanian, Czech and Slovak (Jonáš), and Hungarian (Jónás) : from a medieval personal name, which comes from the Hebrew male personal name Yona, meaning ‘dove’. In the book of the Bible which bears his name, Jonah was appointed by God to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh, but tried to flee instead to Tarshish. On the voyage to Tarshish, a great storm blew up, and Jonah was thrown overboard by his shipmates to appease God’s wrath, swallowed by a great fish, and delivered by it on the shores of Nineveh. This story exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination in medieval Europe, and the personal name was a relatively common choice. The Hebrew name and its reflexes in other languages (for example Yiddish Yoyne) have been popular Jewish personal names for generations. There are also saints, martyrs, and bishops called Jonas venerated in the Orthodox Church. Ionas is found as a Greek family name.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : respelling of Yonis, with Yiddish possessive -s.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a cheerful or boisterous person, from Middle English ga(i)le ‘jovial’, ‘rowdy’, from Old English gÄl ‘light’, ‘pleasant’, ‘merry’, which was reinforced in Middle English by Old French gail. Compare Gail 2.English : from a Germanic personal name introduced into England from France by the Normans in the form Gal(on). Two originally distinct names have fallen together in this form: one was a short form of compound names with the first element gail ‘cheerful’, ‘joyous’. Compare Gaillard, the other was a byname from the element walh ‘stranger’, ‘foreigner’.English : metonymic occupational name for a jailer, topographic name for someone who lived near the local jail, or nickname for a jailbird, from Old Northern French gaiole ‘jail’ (Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of classical Latin cavea ‘cage’).Portuguese : from galé ‘galleon’, ‘war ship’, presumably a metonymic occupational name for a shipwright or a mariner.Slovenian : from a pet form of the personal name Gal (Latin Gallus), formed with the suffix -e, usually denoting a young person.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places named from Old English scypen, scipen ‘cattleshed’, such as Shippen in West Yorkshire and Shippon in Berkshire, or a topographic name derived directly from the vocabulary word. In some cases it may originally have been acquired as a metonymic occupational name for a cowman, who in medieval times would often have lived in the same building as his animals.Born in Methley, Yorkshire, England, in 1639, Edward Shippen emigrated to Boston, MA, in 1668. He joined the Society of Friends and moved his family and business to Philadelphia in about 1694 to avoid religious persecution, eventually becoming mayor of Philadelphia, where his sons and grandsons continued to be prominent.
Surname or Lastname
English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : occupational name for a maker of helmets, from the adopted Old French term he(a)umier, from he(a)ume ‘helmet’, of Germanic origin. Compare Helm 2.English : variant of Holmer.Americanized form of the Greek family name Homiros or one of its patronymic derivatives (Homirou, Homiridis, etc.). This was not only the name of the ancient Greek epic poet (classical Greek Homēros), but was also borne by a martyr venerated in the Greek Orthodox Church.Slovenian : topographic name for someone who lived on a hill, from hom (dialect form of holm ‘hill’, ‘height’) + the German suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.The American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910) was of old New England stock dating back to Captain John Homer, an Englishman who crossed the Atlantic in his own ship and settled in Boston about 1636.
SHIP
SHIP
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Kessel.Altered spelling of German or Dutch Kessel.
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Loved by Many; Ruler of 10 Lakh People
Female
Egyptian
, the daughter of the prophet Ra-nofre-ab.
Male
English
 Variant spelling of English Wynne, WYNN means "friend." Compare with another form of Wynn.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, French, German, Indian
Shining Meadow; Bright Grassland; Country Meadow; Bright Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of various places so called. Most, including those in Cumbria, Herefordshire, Norfolk, and East and North Yorkshire, are named from an Old English wilig ‘willow’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. One in Somerset and another in Wiltshire have as their first element Old English wiell(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. The one that has given its name to the county of Wiltshire is named for the Wylye river, on which it stands (an ancient British river name, perhaps meaning ‘capricious’).
Boy/Male
Hindu
Girl/Female
British, English
Park with Deer
Surname or Lastname
English
English : ostensibly a topographic name containing Middle English cott, cote ‘cottage’ (see Coates). In fact, however, it is generally if not always an alteration of Alcock, in part at least for euphemistic reasons.Louisa May Alcott (1832–88), author of Little Women (1869), was the daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), who had changed the family name from Alcox. The family trace their descent from an Alcocke family who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop in 1629.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Damayanti | தமயஂதீ
Nalas wife, Beautiful
SHIP
SHIP
SHIP
SHIP
SHIP
imp. & p. p.
of Shipwreck
adv.
In a shipshape or seamanlike manner.
a.
Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
n.
A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
v. t.
To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
n.
That which is shipped.
n.
Owner of a ship or ships.
n.
The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
a.
Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
n.
The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
n.
A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Shipwreck
n.
The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
n.
One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.
n.
A cowhouse; a shippen.
a.
Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
n.
The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
n.
Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
a.
Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
v. t.
To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.