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Vessel
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- 1 A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.; Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
"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."
- 2 a craft designed for water transportation wordnet
- 3 A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.; A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
"Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations."
- 4 an object used as a container (especially for liquids) wordnet
- 5 Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals. dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
"All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis."
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- 6 a tube in which a body fluid circulates wordnet
- 7 A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- 8 A person as a container of qualities or feelings. figuratively
"A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge."
- 9 A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
"Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants."
- 1 To put into a vessel. transitive
"1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,” Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāss Late Latin vās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Italic *-elom Late Latin -ulum Late Latin -culum Late Latin vāsculum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Italic *-elos Late Latin -lus Late Latin vāscellum Old French vaisselbor. Middle English vessel English vessel Inherited from Middle English vessel, vessell (“small container”); from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”).
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāss Late Latin vās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Italic *-elom Late Latin -ulum Late Latin -culum Late Latin vāsculum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Italic *-elos Late Latin -lus Late Latin vāscellum Old French vaisselbor. Middle English vessel English vessel Inherited from Middle English vessel, vessell (“small container”); from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”).
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