shippingとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from 古期英語 scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship +‎ -ing.

名詞

shipping (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 shippings)

1. The transportation of goods.
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […]   But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

2. The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene 7,^[1]

     Our overplus of shipping will we burn; / And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium / Beat the approaching Caesar.

   • 1724, Daniel Defoe, A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, Introduction, p. 23,^[2]

     […] the Advantage appeared greatly on their Side, in Numbers of Shipping, and of Men;

   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, Chapter 22, p. 345,^[3]

     My first afternoon, on reaching New Bedford, was spent in visiting the wharves and viewing the shipping.

   • 1970, Robertson Davies, Fifth Business, Toronto: Macmillan, Chapter 2, p. 107,^[4]

     […] I clearly remember a castle on the shores of the lagoon, where gondolas appeared amid larger shipping, which seemed to be plying in and out of Naples […]

3. Passage or transport on a ship.
4. The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.

   The shipping is included in the quoted price.

5. Navigation.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     God send 'em good shipping.

派生語

• shipping lane
• short-sea shipping
• take shipping