Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Ship

Nouns
  • ship, vessel, sail
  • craft, bottom. navy, marine, fleet, flotilla
  • shipping. man of war etc. (combatant) Combatant
  • transport, tender, storeship
  • merchant ship, merchantman
  • packet, liner
  • whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter
  • fishing boat, pilot boat
  • trawler, hulk
  • yacht
  • baggala
  • floating hotel, floating palace
  • ocean greyhound. ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig
  • brigantine, barkantine
  • schooner
  • topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner
  • sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss
  • sailer, sailing vessel
  • windjammer
  • steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash
  • punch, thwack, whack
  • hit hard, strike hard
  • swap, batter, dowse, baste
  • pelt, patter, buffet, belabor
  • fetch one a blow
  • poke at, pip, ship of the line
  • destroyer, cruiser, frigate
  • landing ship, LST
  • aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop [Coll.], nuclear powered carrier
  • submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. boat, pinnace, launch
  • life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat
  • swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau [Can.], broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher
  • dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot
  • shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret
  • eight oar, four oar, pair oar
  • randan
  • outrigger
  • float, raft, pontoon
  • prame
  • iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel
  • felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe
  • galley, galleyfoist
  • bilander, dogger, hooker, howker
  • argosy, carack
  • galliass, galleon
  • polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow
  • dahabeah
  • nuggah
  • kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue
  • quadrireme, trireme
  • stern-wheeler [U.S.]
  • wanigan, wangan [U.S.], wharf boat. balloon
  • airship, aeroplane
  • biplane, monoplane, triplane
  • hydroplane
  • aerodrome
  • air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin
  • aerostat, Montgolfier
  • kite, parachute. jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane
  • corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation
  • airline, common carrier
  • fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane
  • supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft.
Adverbs
  • afloat, aboard
  • on board, on ship board
  • hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather.