Synonyms of the word

ship

• n. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
• n. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an…
• n. (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
• n. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
• v. (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
• v. (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To release a product to vendors; to launch.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
• v. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To put in its place.
• v. (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
• v. (transitive) To pass (from one person to another).
• v. (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
• v. (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
• v. (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
• n. (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional.
• v. (fandom slang) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either…

board

• n. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction…
• n. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control…
• n. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
• n. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
• n. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
• n. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
• n. (nautical) The side of a ship.
• n. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
• n. (ice hockey) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
• n. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
• n. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
• n. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
• n. (duplicate bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players…
• v. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
• v. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
• v. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her…
• v. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
• v. To cover with boards or boarding.
• v. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
• v. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
• n. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

embark

• v. To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
• v. To start, begin.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
• v. (transitive) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.

employ

• n. The state of being an employee; employment.
• v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
• v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
• v. To make busy.

engage

• v. (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
• v. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
• v. (heading) To interact contractually.
• v. (heading) To interact mechanically.
• v. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).

hire

• n. Payment for the temporary use of something.
• n. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
• n. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
• n. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
• v. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
• v. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone…
• v. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
• v. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
• v. (intransitive) To accept employment.

journey

• n. A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
• n. (obsolete) A day.
• n. (obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
• n. (obsolete) A day's work.
• v. To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

send

• v. (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
• v. (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
• v. To bring to a certain condition.
• v. (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
• v. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
• v. (nautical) To pitch.
• n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
• n. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

transport

• v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
• v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
• v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
• n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
• n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
• n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
• n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
• n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
• n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
• n. (historical) A deported convict.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

vessel

• n. (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
• n. A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete or dialectal) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
• n. A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
• n. A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
• n. (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To put into a vessel.

watercraft

• n. Skill in boating, swimming, or other water-related sports.
• n. Any self-propelled motorized vessel that moves on or through the water.
• n. A boat, ship, sea scooter, or similar vehicle.
• n. Water vehicles considered as a group.