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vessel

[ves-uhl]

noun

  1. a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.

  2. an airship.

  3. a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.

  4. Anatomy, Zoology.a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.

  5. Botany.a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients.

  6. a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial.

    a vessel of grace;

    a vessel of wrath.



vessel

/ ˈɛə /

noun

  1. any object used as a container, esp for a liquid

  2. a passenger or freight-carrying ship, boat, etc

  3. an aircraft, esp an airship

  4. anatomy a tubular structure that transports such body fluids as blood and lymph

  5. botany a tubular element of xylem tissue consisting of a row of cells in which the connecting cell walls have broken down

  6. rarea person regarded as an agent or vehicle for some purpose or quality

    she was the vessel of the Lord

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

vessel

  1. A blood vessel.

  2. A long, continuous column made of the lignified walls of dead vessel elements, along which water flows in the xylem of angiosperms.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • vesseled adjective
  • unvesseled adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of vessel1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Anglo-French, Old French va(i)ssel, vessel, from Latin ܳ, from “vessel” ( vase ) + -cellum, diminutive suffix
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of vessel1

C13: from Old French vaissel, from Late Latin vascellum urn, from Latin vessel
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The Western Ferries vessel, from which the person went overboard, is a car and passenger service.

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Inside one or more large reactor vessels, atoms of nuclear fuel are split, releasing a large amount of heat.

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Last month, a Liberian-flagged vessel carrying oil and hazardous cargo leaked and sank in the Arabian Sea, sparking fears that harmful substances could endanger the health of residents and marine life.

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The FFC said the vessel, which left Sicily on Friday, was carrying humanitarian aid and had been "prepared for the possibility of an Israeli attack".

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