containership

noun

Etymology

From container + -ship.

  1. derived from *skēyb-
  2. inherited from *skipą
  3. inherited from *skip
  4. inherited from sċip
  5. inherited from ship
  6. formed as containership — “container + ship

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of container ship.

    • A containership was passing in the far distance, a dark rectangle in the dusk.
    • One of the world’s largest containerships wedged athwart the Suez Canal has offered the shipping industry a timely reminder that super-sized ships can create super-sized problems
  2. The conceptual containment of one object inside another.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for containership. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA