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Pronunciation


Noun

  1. A general term for all kinds of craft designed for transportation on water, such as ships or boats.
  2. * 1719: w:Daniel Defoe|Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe
  3. *: ''But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
  4. A container.
  5. A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
  6. * Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:
  7. *: I am a vessel that’s empty and useless
    I am a bad seed that fell by the way
    I am a loser that wants to be a winner
    And you are my last hope
    Don’t turn me away.
  8. A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
  9. : blood or lymph vessels in humans, xylem or phloem vessels in plants


Derived terms

Translations

  • Czech: {{t+|cs|loď|f}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|vaartuig|n}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|vaisseau|m}}
  • German: , {{t+|de|Boot|n}}
  • Greek:
  • : Modern: σκάφος (skáfos) , πλοίο (pleé-o)
  • : Classical: πλοίον
  • Hungarian: ,
  • Italian: {{t+|it|vascello|m}}
  • Japanese: 船舶(せんぱく, senpaku)
  • Korean: 배 (bae), 선박 (船舶, seonbag, -bak)
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|statek|m}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|barco|m}}, {{t+|pt|navio|m}}
  • Russian: корабль (korábl’) , судно (súdno)
  • Slovak: {{t-|sk|loď|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|navío|m}}, {{t+|es|embarcación|f}}, {{t+|es|buque|m}}, {{t+|es|barco|m}}
  • Swedish: fartyg
  • Telugu: ఓడ (ODa)
  • Japanese: 容器(ようき, yōki)
  • Korean: 그릇 (geureus, geureut)
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|naczynie|n}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|vasilha|f}}, {{t+|pt|vaso|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|сосуд|m|tr=sosúd|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Slovak: {{t-|sk|nádoba|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|recipiente|m}}, {{t-|es|receptáculo|m}}, {{t+|es|vaso|m}}, {{t+|es|vasija|f}}
  • Telugu: పాత్ర (paatra)
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|céva|f}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|vat|n}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Gefäß|n}}
  • Greek: αγγείο [aˈ(ŋ)ɟiˌo̞̞]
  • Italian: {{t+|it|vaso|m}}
  • Polish: naczynie
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|vaso|m}}
  • Russian: сосуд (sosúd)
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|canal|m}}

References


Category:1000 English basic words Category:Containers

ang:vessel ar:vessel de:vessel el:vessel fa:vessel fr:vessel io:vessel it:vessel ku:vessel hu:vessel nl:vessel ja:vessel no:vessel pl:vessel ru:vessel simple:vessel fi:vessel sv:vessel ta:vessel te:vessel vi:vessel tr:vessel uk:vessel zh:vessel

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t.
To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F.
vaisseau, fr. L. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a
vessel. Cf. Vascular, Vase.]
1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow
receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin,
a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
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[They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer.
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2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon
the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that
is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a
passenger vessel.
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[He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton.
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3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing
something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is
conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for
use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
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He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15.
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[The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in
whom
To enter. --Milton.
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4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other
fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the
arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
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5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large
cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost
their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with
dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of
secondary membranes; a duct.
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Acoustic vessels. See under Acoustic.

Weaker vessel, a woman; -- now applied humorously. "Giving
honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel." --1 Peter
iii. 7. "You are the weaker vessel." --Shak.
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WordNet vessel
n 1: a tube in which a body fluid circulates [syn: vas]
2: a craft designed for water transportation [syn: watercraft]
3: an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
Moby Dictionary
Eustachian tube , Fallopian tube , LC , LSD , LSM , SC ,
aircraft carrier , aircraft tender , ammunition ship , argosy , ark ,
assault transport , bark , battleship , bawley , beaker , bilander ,
blackjack , boat , bomb ketch , bottom , bowl , brig , brigantine ,
bucket , bully , buss , canal , capital ship , caravel , carrier , cat ,
catamaran , chalice , clipper , coast guard cutter , coffee cup ,
communications ship , container , convoy , corsair , corvette , craft ,
cruiser , cutter , dandy , depot ship , destroyer , destroyer leader ,
destroyer tender , dhow , dispatch boat , dreadnought , dromond , duct ,
eagle boat , eggcup , emunctory , escort carrier , escort vessel ,
fire ship , first-rate , fishing smack , fistula , flagship , flattie ,
flattop , four-masted bark , four-master , frigate , fuel ship , galiot ,
galleass , galleon , glass , goblet , guided missile cruiser , gunboat ,
heavy cruiser , highball glass , holder , hooker , horn , hospital ship ,
hoy , hulk , hull , ice yacht , intestines , ironclad , jigger , junk ,
keel , keelboat , ketch , knockabout , landing craft , lateen , lateener ,
leviathan , liberty boat , light cruiser , line-of-battle ship ,
lorcha , loving cup , lugger , meatus , mine sweeper , minisub , monitor ,
mosquito boat , mug , nobby , noggin , ocean racer , ostium , outrigger ,
oviduct , packet , patrol boat , picketboat , pilot boat , pinnace ,
piragua , pirogue , pony , pore , pram , privateer , protected cruiser ,
pungy , racing yacht , raider , ram , receiver , receiving ship ,
receptacle , reconnaissance ship , rigger , rocket boat ,
sailing auxiliary , sailing canoe , sailing dinghy , sailing packet ,
sailing trawler , salpinx , sampan , sandbagger , schooner , schooper ,
scooter , scout , scout cruiser , seaplane carrier , shallop , sharpie ,
shell , ship , ship of war , shipentine , shipplane carrier ,
shot glass , skipjack , sloop , smack , smack boat , snow , spy ship ,
stein , storeship , storm boat , submarine , submarine chaser ,
submarine patrol boat , submarine tender , submersible ,
superdreadnought , sweeper , tankard , tanker , tartan , tassie , teacup ,
tender , thoracic duct , topsail schooner , transport , trimaran ,
troopship , tub , tumbler , turret ship , ureter , urethra , utensil ,
vagina , vas , warship , watercraft , well smack , whaler , wineglass ,
wool-clipper , xebec , yacht , yawl


VESSEL, mar. law. A ship, brig, sloop or other craft used in navigation. 1 Boul. Paty, tit. 1, p. 100. See sup. 2. By an act of congress, approved July 29, 1850, it is provided that any person, not being an owner, who shall on the high seas, willfully, with. intent to burn or destroy, set fire to any ship or other vessel, or otherwise attempt the destruction of such ship or other vessel, being the property of any citizen or citizens of the United States, or procure the same to be done, with the intent aforesaid, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer imprisonment to hard labor, for a term not exceeding ten years, nor less than three years, according to the aggravation of the offence.
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