Ship and Tanker

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Ship noun - A large craft for travel by water.

Usage example: a cruise ship plying the warm waters of the Caribbean

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Tanker and ship are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tanker" instead a noun "Ship".

Nearby Words: shipment, shipped, shipping, shipload, shipper

Tanker noun - A cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk.

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Ship and tanker are semantically related. You can use "Ship" instead a noun "Tanker".

Nearby Words: tank, tanked, tanking

It gets better; one of his lieutenants leaks the plan, and the ship is boarded by special forces troops, who find it a perfectly normal oil tanker.

Source: Harsher In Hindsight / Literature
Then the ship, an oil tanker, is set ablaze by a pyromaniac fellow rescuee, and everyone ends up stranded again on the island.

Source: Comic Book / Natacha
An oil tanker operating without a license, lookout, or shipmaster, and found to be unseaworthy, collided with the Doña Paz, which was badly overcrowded by as much as twice what was written on the ship manifest.

Source: Nightmare Fuel / Other

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