Ship vs. Barge: What's the Difference?

A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

A long, large, usually flatbottom boat for transporting freight that is generally unpowered and towed or pushed by other craft.

A sailing vessel having three or more square-rigged masts.

A large, open pleasure boat used for parties, pageants, or formal ceremonies.

An aircraft or spacecraft.

A powerboat reserved for the use of an admiral.

The crew of one of these vessels.

To carry by barge.

One's fortune

To move about clumsily.

To place or receive on board a ship

To intrude or interrupt, especially rudely

To cause to be transported; send.

A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo.

(nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.

A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions.

A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.

A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel.

A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).

One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars

A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.

The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table.

A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

(US) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

(cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.

A large omnibus used for excursions.

(dated) An aircraft.

To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.

(fandom) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.

(transitive) To push someone.

(transitive) To send by water-borne transport.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

(transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).

A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.

(ambitransitive) To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.

A large boat used by flag officers.

(ambitransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.

A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.

(intransitive) To embark on a ship.

A large omnibus used for excursions.

To put or secure in its place.

A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)

(transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.

Push one's way;

Leave, depart, scram.

Transport by barge on a body of water

To pass (from one person to another).

To go all in.

(sports) To trade or send a player to another team.

(rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.

(fandom) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.

Pay; reward.

Any large seagoing vessel.

Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.

A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.

By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.

Hence, to send away; to get rid of.

To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.

To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.

To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.

To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.

To embark on a ship.

A vessel that carries passengers or freight

Transport commercially

Hire for work on a ship

Go on board

Travel by ship

Place on board a ship;