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vessel
[ ves-uhl ]
noun
- a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.
- an airship.
- a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.
- Anatomy, Zoology. a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.
- Botany. a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients. Compare tracheid.
- a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial:
a vessel of grace;
a vessel of wrath.
vessel
/ ˈɛə /
noun
- any object used as a container, esp for a liquid
- a passenger or freight-carrying ship, boat, etc
- an aircraft, esp an airship
- anatomy a tubular structure that transports such body fluids as blood and lymph
- botany a tubular element of xylem tissue consisting of a row of cells in which the connecting cell walls have broken down
- rare.a person regarded as an agent or vehicle for some purpose or quality
she was the vessel of the Lord
vessel
/ ĕ′ə /
- A blood vessel.
- A long, continuous column made of the lignified walls of dead vessel elements, along which water flows in the xylem of angiosperms.
Other 51Թ Forms
- s especially British, s adjective
- un·s adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vessel1
Example Sentences
It is a jukebox musical of Celine Dion hits, where Celine herself hijacks a museum tour about the Titanic cruise liner in order to narrate her version of what happened the night the vessel sank.
It found the vessels did not have "dedicated lookouts" in what were "patchy conditions".
There were eight other vessels anchored in the same area, the report noted.
I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had attended to a cable break off the west coast of Africa.
Naval vessels and their sailors are being fired upon daily by Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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