You’re listening to Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for August 8.

International Cat Day

Today’s word is ship, spelled s-h-i-p.

ship /ʃɪp/ ●○○ verb (shipped, shipping)

to send goods somewhere by ship, plane, truck etc

A new engine was shipped over from the US.

We ship books out to New York every month.

Your order is expected to ship soon.

Test-by-mail kits require users to purchase a kit, take a sample at home and ship the swab back to a lab.

— New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021

[intransitive, transitive] technical to make a piece of computer equipment or software available for people to buy

The company will ship its new software next month.

The software will ship next month.

With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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