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

    a vessel of grace;

    a vessel of wrath.



vessel

/ ˈ±¹É›²õÉ™±ô /

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. rare.
    a 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

/ ±¹Ä•²õ′ə±ô /

  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 ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±¹±ð²õs±ð±ô±ð»å especially British, ±¹±ð²õs±ð±ô±ô±ð»å adjective
  • un·±¹±ð²õs±ð±ô±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of vessel1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Anglo-French, Old French va(i)ssel, vessel, from Latin ±¹Äå²õ³¦±ð±ô±ô³Ü³¾, from ±¹Äå²õ “vessel†( vase ) + -cellum, diminutive suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of vessel1

C13: from Old French vaissel, from Late Latin vascellum urn, from Latin ±¹Äå²õ vessel
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It found the vessels did not have "dedicated lookouts" in what were "patchy conditions".

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There were eight other vessels anchored in the same area, the report noted.

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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.

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Naval vessels and their sailors are being fired upon daily by Houthi rebels in Yemen.

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The reports also state that none of the vessels they looked at were fitted with flame arresters – safety devices designed to stop flames from igniting flammable gases.

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