shipped

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of ship.

   The factory shipped thousands of units before the holiday rush.

   Her paintings were shipped across the country for the exhibition.

   Note

   The p doubles before -ed, and the one spelling serves as both past tense and participle. Several meanings of ship need no object: the update shipped on Monday, he shipped as a deckhand. With have it forms the perfect; with be it forms the passive. In the passive it shades into the cargo adjective, as in the goods were shipped.

2. 2
   adjective

   Loaded aboard a ship or other conveyance and forming part of its cargo.

   The shipped freight rode below deck for the entire Atlantic crossing.

   Inspectors counted the shipped pallets stowed in the vessel's hold.

   Similarloaded

   Oppositeunloaded

3. 3
   adjective

   Present aboard a ship in the capacity of a passenger rather than as crew or cargo.

   The shipped guests dined together each evening during the crossing.

   Officers kept a list of every shipped passenger boarding at the port.

   Note

   The passenger's sense often carries a destination with it. Shakespeare writes "I hope, the king is not yet shipped for Ireland" in 1595, and there shipped for works much like bound for. The for-phrase names where the traveler is headed. That phrase, and the fact that a person rather than freight is aboard, sets it apart from the cargo sense.

4. 4
   adjective

   Supplied or equipped with a ship or ships.

   The heavily shipped republic dominated trade throughout the region.

   A nation kept strong and well shipped rarely feared invasion by sea.

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