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.
Origin of vessel
1250–1300; Middle English <Anglo-French, Old French vessel, va(i)ssel<Latin vāscellum, equivalent to vās (see vase) + -cellum diminutive suffix
The best vessel for taking a salad to go is a mason jar, says Cavuto.
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The only gene-edited specimens would be the surrogate sires, which act like vessels in which the elite sperm travel.
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Then they connected each lung to a large vein in the neck of a live pig, so that its blood flowed through the vessels.
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The XENON1T detector, located deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, searched for interactions of dark matter particles within a large vessel filled with liquid xenon, running from 2016 to 2018.
An unexpected result from a dark matter experiment may signal new particles|Emily Conover|June 17, 2020|Science News
Studies have shown that the coronavirus can infect pericytes, cells that wrap around blood vessels and help control flow.
The way the coronavirus messes with smell hints at how it affects the brain|Laura Sanders|June 12, 2020|Science News
In CDC-speak, the problem is filed under the vessel sanitation program (VSP).
A Doctor Explains Why Cruise Ships Should Be Banned|Kent Sepkowitz|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The tests in the study assumed that the ship would displace about 9690-tons; the Zumwalt is a 15,500-ton vessel.
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Local mechanics pitched in to help mend the craft, but weeks into setting off the repairs wore thin and the vessel sprung a leak.
Victor Mooney’s Epic Adventure for His Dead Brother|Justin Jones|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His vessel, named “Never Give Up,” was damaged during transportation.
Victor Mooney’s Epic Adventure for His Dead Brother|Justin Jones|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Within a matter of hours, the vessel that Mooney had crafted began to sink.
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It was a plain, comfortable place, wainscoted about, with shelves and lockers in the whimsical copy of a vessel's cabin.
McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908|Various
At length we returned to our vessel, which had triumphantly fought the wind and floating trees.
Strange True Stories of Louisiana|George Washington Cable
Oh, no doubt, in that case, the master of the vessel would be the last to hear of it.
Command|William McFee
Here Paul debarked from the vessel on which he had sailed 600 miles, and entered once more the Holy Land.
The Rand-McNally Bible Atlas|Jesse L. Hurlbut
Get a vessel of hot water, and put a phial into it, with the mouth downwards; the expanded air will bubble out.
The Book of Curiosities|I. Platts
British Dictionary definitions for vessel
vessel
/ (ˈvɛsəl) /
noun
any object used as a container, esp for a liquid
a passenger or freight-carrying ship, boat, etc
an aircraft, esp an airship
anatomya tubular structure that transports such body fluids as blood and lymph
botanya tubular element of xylem tissue consisting of a row of cells in which the connecting cell walls have broken down
rarea person regarded as an agent or vehicle for some purpose or qualityshe was the vessel of the Lord
Word Origin for vessel
C13: from Old French vaissel, from Late Latin vascellum urn, from Latin vās vessel