Ship canal A ship canal is a canal especially constructed to carry ocean-going ships, as opposed to barges. Ship canals can be enlarged barge canals, canalised or channels, or canals especially constructed from the start to accommodate ships. For a canal to qualify as a ship canal, it must have a minimum depth of at least 5 metres, although many are much deeper.
	Ship of the line In the age of sail, after the development of the line of battle military tactics in the mid 17th century, and up to the mid 19th century, a ship of the line was a warship powerful enough to take a place in the battle line. Another term, line of battle ship, was shortened to become "battleship", but this is a later usage and is not appropriate for the age of sail.
	Ship's bells Ship's bells are a system to indicate the time by means of bell s, used aboard a ship to regulate the sailors' duty watches. Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of the bell do not accord to the number of the hour. Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch.
	Shipbuilding Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, originally called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history. Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as the "naval sector".
	Shipping Shipping is basic process of Transport Product and cargo. Virtually every product ever made, bought, or sold has been affected by shipping. Despite the many variables in shipped products and locations, there are only three basic types of shipments: land, air, and sea.
	Shipworm Shipworms are not in fact worms at all, but rather a peculiar variety of marine mollusk in the family Teredinidae. They bore into submerged wood, and bacteria in a special organ called the gland of Deshayes enable them to digest cellulose. The shipworms belong to several genus of which Teredo is the most commonly mentioned.
	Shipwreck A shipwreck is the remains of a ship after it has sunk or been beached as a result of a crisis at sea. American English usage of the word may also mean the destruction or loss of a ship.
	Shipyard Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and ship-buildings. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial construction.
	Shire horse The Shire horse is a breed of draft horse. It is the tallest of the modern draught breeds, and a stallion may stand 18 or more Hands high and weigh a ton. The Shire horse has a dense rounded body, a broad back, strong loins, powerful hind-quarters, and long legs with dense bones.
	Shirley Temple Shirley Jane Temple, later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an United States diplomat and former film child actor. She starred in over 40 films during the 1930s.
	Shirt A shirt is a piece of clothing for the trunk of the body. In the United Kingdom, it refers most often to what Americans call a dress shirt or tailored shirt, i.e., a garment with a collar, cuffs, and a full vertical opening with buttons. In the United States it tends to have a vaguer meaning, being applied to many types of tops, leaving the word "top" generally for ladieswear.
	Shiva Shiva is a form of Ishvara or God in the later Vedas scriptures of Hinduism. Shiva is the supreme God in Shaivism, one of the major branches of Hinduism practiced in India. Adi Sankara interprets the name Shiva meaning "One who purifies everyone by the utterance of His name" or the Pure One.
	Shock Shock is a serious medical condition where the Biological_tissue perfusion is insufficient to meet the required supply of oxygen and nutrients. This hypoperfusion state is a life-threatening medical emergency and one of the leading causes of death in a critically ill person.
	Shock absorber A shock absorber in common parlance is a mechanical device designed to smooth out or damping a sudden Shock impulse and dissipate kinetic energy. It is analogous to a resistor in an electric RLC circuit.
	Shock wave A shock wave is a type of propagating disturbance. Like a normal wave, a shock wave carries energy and can propagate through a medium or, in special cases, through a field such as the electromagnetic field in the absence of a physical medium. Shock waves are characterized by a sudden change in the characteristics of the medium as a positive step function.
	Shoe A shoe is an item of footwear.
	Shoe polish Shoe polish, usually a waxy paste or a cream, is a consumer product used to polishing, waterproofing, and restore the appearance of leather shoes or boots, thereby extending the footwear's life. Various substances have been used as shoe polish for hundreds of years, starting with natural substances such as wax and tallow.
	Shoelaces Shoelaces thin cords fitted to shoes to keep the shoe in place, and prevent it from slipping off by accident. The shoelace can be untied and loosened, permitting the shoe to open wide to admit the wearer's foot; it can then be tightened and knotted. Shoelaces did not become widely popular until the 20th century.
	Shoemaking Shoemaking is a traditional handicraft profession, which has now been largely superseded by industry manufacture of footwear. Shoemakers may produce a range of footwear items, including shoes, boots, sandals, clogs and Moccasins. Such items are generally made of leather, wood, rubber, plastic, jute or other plant material, and often consist of multiple parts for better durability of the sole, stitched to a leather upper.
	Shoestring Shoestring was a BBC TV show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own radio show on the local radio station, Radio West. The programme ran between September 30 1979 and December 21 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac.
	Shofar A shofar is a ram's horn that is used as a musical instrument for religious purposes. It is used on Judaism's high holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The shofar originated in Israel for Jewish callings.
	Shogi , or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan.
	Shogun is a military rank and historical title in Japan. The rank is equivalent to "general," a high officer in an army. As a title, it is the short form of sei-i taishogun . The Imperial Court in Kyoto awarded this title first to the leaders of military expeditions against eastern people, and later to the heads of military governments at many times in the history of Japan.
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	Shooting Gallery For information about the sport of shooting see shooting The Shooting Gallery was a light gun and is regarded as the first commercial light gun ever created for any penny arcade or video game console . It was originally created by Ralph Baer, the inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey, in 1968 as part of a prototype gaming unit.
	Shooting range A shooting range is a specialized facility designed for firearms practice. Each facility is typically overseen by one or more supervisory personnel, called variously a range master in the United States or a range conducting officer or "RCO" in the UK. These supervisory personnel are responsible for ensuring that all Gun safety rules are followed at all times at a shooting range.
	Shooting Stars Shooting Stars is a United Kingdom television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two. Created by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it is both a parody of the game show format, and an experiment in dadaism television. As such it is possibly one of the most bizarre programmes ever regularly aired.
	Shopping cart A shopping cart is a cart supplied by a Retailing#Shops and stores, especially a supermarket, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the check-out counter, and, after paying, often also to the automobile on the parking lot. Often, customers are allowed to leave the carts in the car park, and store personnel return the carts to the shop.
	Shopping mall A shopping mall, shopping center, or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain stores, and has interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store. The walkways may or may not be enclosed. In the British Isles and Australia, these structures are known as "shopping centres" or "shopping arcades" and are not normally referred to as "shopping malls".
	Shore A shore or shoreline is the land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake. Shores are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape, as well as by water induced erosion, such as ocean surface wave. The geology composition of rock and soil dictates the type of shore which is created.
	Shorea Shorea is a genus of 360 species of mainly rainforest trees in the Family Dipterocarpaceae. They are native to southeast Asia, from Northern India to Malesia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
	Short circuit A short circuit is an accidental low-Electrical resistance connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit that are meant to be at different voltages. This results in an excessive electric current limited only by the internal impedance of the current source and potentially causes circuit damage, overheating, fire or explosion.
	Short Circuit Short Circuit was a 1986 comedy film science fiction film starring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg and directed by John Badham. Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, and G. W. Bailey co-star, with Tim Blaney providing the voice of robot "Johnny 5".
	Short-toed Eagle The Short-toed Eagle is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal Bird of preys such as kite, buzzards and harriers. This is an Old World species spread throughout the Mediterranean basin and into Russia and the Middle East, and into parts of Asia.
	Shortbread Shortbread is a type of biscuit which is traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter, and three parts flour, although other ingredients like ground rice or cornflour are sometimes added to alter the texture. It is baked at a low temperature to avoid browning; and when cooked, it should be white or a light golden brown.
	Shortcake Shortcake is a sweet biscuit, and a dessert made with that biscuit. Shortcake is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, table salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes Eggs. The dry ingredients are blended, and then the butter is cut in and mixed until the incorporation resembles cornmeal.
	Shorthand Shorthand is an abbreviated, symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a normal method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is stenography, from the Greek stenos and graphos. Many forms of shorthand exist. Typical shorthand systems provide symbols or abbreviations for words and common phrases, which allow someone well trained in the system to write as quickly as people speak.
	Shorthorn The Shorthorn breed of cattle originated in the North East of England in the late 18th century. The breed was developed as dual purpose, suitable for both dairy and beef production; however there were always certain blood lines within the breed which emphasised one quality or the other.
	Shortleaf Pine The Shortleaf Pine is a common pine found in the eastern United States from southern New York south to northern Florida, west to the extreme southeast of Kansas, and southwest to eastern Texas. The tree is variable in form, sometimes straight, sometimes crooked, with an irregular crown.
	Shorts Shorts are a garment worn by both men and women over their pelvic area and the upper part of the upper legs or more, sometimes extending as far as mid-calf, but not covering the entire length of the leg, either as outer - our undergarment. They are called "shorts" because they are a shortened version of trousers or pants which cover the entire leg.
	Shortstop Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball positions between second base and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the ball slightly, so more balls go to the shortstop than any other position.
	Shoshone This article deals with the Shoshone Native Americans in the United States tribe. For other topics of the same name see Shoshone. The Shoshone, Shoshoni, or Snake are a Native Americans in the United States group consisting of several band society.
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	Shot put The shot put is an athletics event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball, also called the shot, as far as possible. In the English language it is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the throwing motion. Both usages are grammatically incorrect.
	Shot tower A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of lead shot, which were used for projectiles in firearms. It replaced the earlier techniques of casting shot in molds and dripping lead into water barrels. Large shot which could not be made by the shot tower were made by tumbling pieces of cut lead sheet in a barrel until round.It was replaced by the "wind tower" method by the end of the 19th century, which used a blast of cold air to dramatically shorten the drop necessary.Today the Bliemeister m
	Shotgun A shotgun is a firearm typically used to fire a number of small spherical pellets. The lead shot is usually fired from a smoothbore Gun barrel; another configuration being the rifled "slug" barrel, which is used to fire a single projectile. Compared to many bullets, the energy of any one ball of Shotgun#shot is fairly low, comparable to that of an .22LR, making shotguns useful primarily for hunting birds and other small Game #Fauna.
	Shotgun shell A shotgun shell is a self-contained cartridge loaded with lead shot or a slug designed to be fired from a shotgun. Most shotgun shells are designed to be fired from a smoothbore Gun barrel, but with the recent gain in popularity of dedicated shotguns with Rifling barrels for firing slugs, there are many rounds specifically designed to be fired from a rifled barrel.
	Shoulder In human anatomy, the shoulder comprises the part of the body where the arm attaches to the torso. It is made up of three bones: the clavicle, the scapula, and the humerus as well as associated muscles, ligaments and tendons. The articulations between the bones of the shoulder make up the shoulder joints.
	Shoulder patch A United States Army Shoulder Sleeve Insignia or shoulder patch is a cloth Heraldry device that uniquely identifies major U.S. Army units. It comes in four forms: * Full Color - Worn on the Army green uniform * Subdued - Worn on the Battle Dress Uniform * Desert - Worn on the Desert Camouflage Uniform
	Shoulder strap A shoulder strap may be one of a number of things: * a length of fabric or other flexible material, used to suspend an item, often of some weight, from the shoulder(s). The strap may be worn slung over one shoulder or across the body. In the interest of comfort, they often have some manner of padding near the middle, where the strap rests directly against the shoulder or neck.
	Shovel A shovel is a tool for lifting and moving loose material such as coal, gravel, snow, soil, or sand. It is usually a hand tool consisting of a broad blade with edges or sides that is fixed to a medium-length handle. The term "shovel" is also applied to larger excavating machines, such as steam shovels, which are designed for the same purpose—lifting and moving material, see Loader.
	Showboat A showboat, or show boat, was a form of theatre that travelled along the waterways of the United States, especially along the Mississippi river and Ohio river. A showboat was basically a barge that resembled a long, flat-roofed house, and in order to move down the river, it was pushed by a small tugboat which was attached to it.
	Shower A shower may refer to: *A bathing in which water is showering down on the body. *precipitation, a brief period or small area of water, usually rain or snow *Showerhead, a fixture used for the act of bathing *Shower filter, a fixture used to remove chlorine & chloramines from your shower water
	Shower curtain Shower curtains are curtains used in bathtubs with a shower or shower enclosures and are usually made out of vinyl, cloth or plastic. The shower curtain has two main purposes: to prevent water from flooding the bathroom and for privacy. Shower curtains usually surround the bath inside the tub and are held up with railings on the ceiling.
	Showgirl A showgirl is a dancer or performer in a show, typically in Las Vegas, Nevada. Showgirls usually follow a regimented schedule of work and exercise to keep their bodies fit and in shape for the stage performances. They also may follow a special dieting to maintain muscle but not gain fat.
	Showgirls Showgirls is a film film director by Paul Verhoeven and released in 1995 by United Artists. It starred former child actor Elizabeth Berkley as a drifter who wanders into Las Vegas, Nevada and climbs the social ladder from striptease to showgirl.
	Showstoppers Showstoppers was an album released in 1991 by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow. It was his first album to not feature any original music. Track listing #"Give My Regards To Broadway" - 1:08 #"Overture of Overtures" - 4:11 #"All I Need Is The Girl" - 2:50 #"Real Live Girl" - 3:26
	Showtime Showtime is a Pay TV brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States.
	Shrapnel Shrapnel is the term used to describe the spherical shot or musket balls dispersed when a shrapnel shell bursts. It is also used to generally describe the metal fragments and debris thrown out by any exploding object, be it a high explosive filled shell or a homemade bomb wrapped with nails or ball bearings.
	Shrew Shrews are small, superficially mouse-like mammals of the Family Soricidae. Although their external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse, the shrews are not rodents and not closely related: the shrew family is part of the order Insectivora.
	Shrike A shrike is a passerine bird of the family Laniidae which is known for its habit of catching insects, small birds or mammals and impaling their bodies on Spine s. This helps them to tear the flesh into smaller, more conveniently-sized fragments, and serves as a "larder" so that the shrike can return to the uneaten portions at a later time.
	Shrimp True shrimp are small, swimming, Decapoda crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh water and salt water.
	Shrimpfish Shrimpfish, also called razorfish, are four small species of tropical marine fish in the Genera Aeoliscus and Centriscus, of the family Centriscidae. They are found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans. Shrimpfish are nearly transparent and flattened from side to side with long snouts and a sharp-edged belly.
	Shrine A shrine, from the Latin scrinium is originally a container, usually in precious materials, especially for a relic and often a cult image, and/or a holy or sacred place containing the same, dedicated towards a certain deity, saint, or similar religious figure. Secular meanings have developed by association, as noted below.
	Shrinkage Shrinkage has multiple meanings, depending on the context.
	Shrove Tuesday In the Christian calendar, Shrove Tuesday is the English name for the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which in turn marks the beginning of Lent. In many solidly Roman Catholic countries in Europe and the Americas, this is the last day of Carnival. In some historically French language places it is Mardi Gras, French for Fat Tuesday; the most famous Shrove Tuesday celebration is the Brazilian Carnival.
	Shrub A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. A large number of plants can be either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience.
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	Shuffle Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games. Shuffling is often followed by a cut , to ensure that the shuffler has not manipulated the outcome.
	Shumard Oak The Shumard Oak, Quercus shumardii, is one of the largest of the oak species in the List of Quercus species#Section Lobatae group. It is closely related to Buckley Oak, Nuttall Oak, and Chisos Red Oak. Shumard Oak is native to the Atlantic Coastal Plain primarily from North Carolina to northern Florida and west to central Texas; it is also found north in the Mississippi River Valley to central Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, Missouri, southern Illinois, Indiana, western