Terminology record for shipping
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| Record No.: | 173/en/315 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2022-11-19 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | |||||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Transport maritime statut : recommandé
* Navigation maritime (nom masculin) statut : admis | ||||||
| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom masculin | ||||||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Transport maritime | ||||||
| DÉFINITION |
Toutes les activités humaines de circulation sur les mers et océans. Elle consiste à planifier, gérer et diriger le voyage d'un navire. - le transport de marchandises par voie maritime. | ||||||
| PLURIEL | Transports maritimes ; Navigations maritimes ; | ||||||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | ||||||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | |||||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Shipping status: recommended
* maritime transport (noun) status: accepted * marine transportation (noun) status: accepted * sea transport (noun) status: accepted * marine ransport (noun) status: accepted * seafaring (noun) status: accepted | ||||||
| PART OF SPEECH | noun | ||||||
| PLURAL | Shipping ; | ||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship + -ing. | ||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Wikipedia | ||||||
| DEFINITION |
the transport of goods by sea or some other means; business of carrying goods, especially in ship | ||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE | Fishterm | ||||||
| USAGE EXAMPLE | Ordinance No. 62-0F-30 of March 31, 1962 on the Code of Merchant Marine Fishing in Cameroun, article 2, paragraph 3 : " The "port of registry" of a vessel means the port where the merchant marine service that issued the shipping documents of the vessel in question is located; " | ||||||
| Notes |
The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well. "Logistics", a term borrowed from the military environment, is also used in the same sense. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_transport)
Not to be confused with shipment which can be by land, air or water.
The term seagoing is used as adjective not as noun.
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