"shipshape" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-shipshape.wav Forms: more shipshape [comparative], most shipshape [superlative]
Etymology: From ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”), later shortened to shape. The word is of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his or her quarters arranged neatly and securely due to the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship, and against turbulence at sea. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|ship|shapen|t2=shaped; wrought with a definite shape}} ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} shipshape (comparative more shipshape, superlative most shipshape)
  1. (originally nautical) Meticulously neat and tidy. Categories (topical): Nautical Synonyms: shipshape and Bristol fashion, tight, orderly Related terms: shipshape and Bristol fashion Translations (meticulously neat and tidy): в отлично състояние (v otlično sǎstojanie) (Bulgarian), úpravný (Czech), აკურატული (aḳuraṭuli) (Georgian), აკრძალვითად (aḳrʒalvitad) (Georgian), picobello (German), tipptopp (German), ठीक-ठाक (ṭhīk-ṭhāk) (Hindi), slachtmhar (Irish), ordenado (Portuguese), bien orientado (Spanish), ordenado (Spanish), maayos (Tagalog)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ship-shape [archaic]

Adverb [English]

IPA: /ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-shipshape.wav Forms: more shipshape [comparative], most shipshape [superlative]
Etymology: From ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”), later shortened to shape. The word is of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his or her quarters arranged neatly and securely due to the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship, and against turbulence at sea. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|ship|shapen|t2=shaped; wrought with a definite shape}} ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”) Head templates: {{en-adv}} shipshape (comparative more shipshape, superlative most shipshape)
  1. (originally nautical) Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent. Categories (topical): Nautical Synonyms: handsomely
    Sense id: en-shipshape-en-adv-sTRwwN69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ship-shape [archaic]

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1950 July, “Night Flight”, in Jim Douglas, editor, Boeing Magazine, volume XX, number 7, Seattle, Wash.: Public Relations Division, Boeing Airplane Company, →OCLC, page 14, column 3:",
          "text": "Having made sure everything is shipshape, the colonel goes back to the controls and starts to bring the plane down.",
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          "ref": "1989 August 17, Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger, premium tie-in edition, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 2018, →ISBN, page 141:",
          "text": "[Y]ou got the downhaul to keep him in place real snug like. Otherwise it just ain't shipshape. Hell, everybody knows that.",
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          "ref": "1950 July, “Night Flight”, in Jim Douglas, editor, Boeing Magazine, volume XX, number 7, Seattle, Wash.: Public Relations Division, Boeing Airplane Company, →OCLC, page 14, column 3:",
          "text": "Having made sure everything is shipshape, the colonel goes back to the controls and starts to bring the plane down.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989 August 17, Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger, premium tie-in edition, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 2018, →ISBN, page 141:",
          "text": "[Y]ou got the downhaul to keep him in place real snug like. Otherwise it just ain't shipshape. Hell, everybody knows that.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 July 1, Kelly Link, “Stone Animals”, in Magic for Beginners: Stories, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 2014, →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "Dr. Marks said I'm shipshape. Those were his exact words. Or maybe he said tip-top. It was something alliterative.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Meticulously neat and tidy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "Meticulously",
          "meticulously"
        ],
        [
          "neat",
          "neat"
        ],
        [
          "tidy",
          "tidy#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(originally nautical) Meticulously neat and tidy."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "shipshape and Bristol fashion"
        },
        {
          "word": "tight"
        },
        {
          "word": "orderly"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "ship-shape"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "v otlično sǎstojanie",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "в отлично състояние"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "úpravný"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "aḳuraṭuli",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "აკურატული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "aḳrʒalvitad",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "აკრძალვითად"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "picobello"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "tipptopp"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ṭhīk-ṭhāk",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "ठीक-ठाक"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "slachtmhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "ordenado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "bien orientado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "ordenado"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "meticulously neat and tidy",
      "word": "maayos"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shipshape"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hindi translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Tagalog translations"
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "ship",
        "3": "shapen",
        "t2": "shaped; wrought with a definite shape"
      },
      "expansion": "ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”)",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”), later shortened to shape. The word is of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his or her quarters arranged neatly and securely due to the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship, and against turbulence at sea.",
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    {
      "form": "more shipshape",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most shipshape",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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    }
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    "ship‧shape"
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  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XV, in The Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 233:",
          "text": "No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860 September, “The Observations of Mace Sloper, Esq.: Second Series. The Cottage on the North River.”, in Lewis Gaylord Clark, editor, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume LVI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: John A. Gray, […], →OCLC, pages 293–294:",
          "text": "I have said a good deal about Bertha, because I like her frank, easy way, her desire to please, and her pleasant natural manner of doing it. I do n't think novel-writers and picture-makers say enough about such girls. [...] Those are the girls, Ma'am, whom I want to see described by people who know how to do this sort of thing up shipshape.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 48:",
          "text": "Some of you have n't sense enough to put a blanket ship-shape over a sick man. There! Leave it alone! I can die anyhow!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent."
      ],
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          "nautical"
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          "Neatly",
          "neatly"
        ],
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          "tidily",
          "tidily"
        ],
        [
          "meticulous",
          "meticulous"
        ],
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          "extent",
          "extent"
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      ],
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        "(originally nautical) Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "handsomely"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp/",
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        "General-American"
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      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "ship-shape"
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  ],
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}

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