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Narrator: Today's word is "Shipwreck" — noun, pronounced /ˈʃɪprek/, with the stress on "ship".
Narrator: A shipwreck is the sinking or destruction of a ship at sea, or the ship's remains.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a sunken or broken ship.
Narrator: It joins ship with wreck.
Narrator: A common collocation is "survive a shipwreck", which describes escaping a sinking.
Narrator: It differs from "capsize", because capsizing is turning over, while a shipwreck is total loss.
Narrator: In a second sense, shipwrecks are popular dive sites and archaeology finds.
Narrator: History, diving, archaeology and fiction all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a shipwreck is a ship lost to the sea.
Speaker A: What's that dark shape under the water?
Speaker B: An old SHIPWRECK! Ship plus wreck.
Speaker A: Can divers visit?
Speaker B: With a permit.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The Mary Rose shipwreck was raised", history. "They dived on a shipwreck", sport. "Robinson Crusoe survived a shipwreck", fiction.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Write it as one word, "shipwreck".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Wreck is its cousin, sinking its twin, and disaster an alternative — yet shipwreck keeps its adventurous charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "shipwreck" in AI prompts — useful for dive apps and museum content.
Speaker A: How for dive apps?
Speaker B: Sites.
Prompt: List five famous shipwreck dive sites in the UK with depths.
Speaker A: And museums?
Speaker B: Stories.
Prompt: Write an exhibit introduction for the Mary Rose shipwreck.
Speaker A: Could it help games?
Speaker B: Yes, for levels.
Prompt: Design an underwater shipwreck level with hidden treasure.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Fiction.
Prompt: Write the opening line of a shipwreck survival story.
Shipwreck — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary