'Vessel' definitions:
Definition of 'vessel'
From: WordNet
noun
A tube in which a body fluid circulates [syn: vessel, vas]
noun
A craft designed for water transportation [syn: vessel, watercraft]
noun
An object used as a container (especially for liquids)
Definition of 'Vessel'
From: GCIDE
- Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F. vaisseau, fr. L. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, Vase.]
- 1. A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc. [1913 Webster]
- [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel. [1913 Webster]
- [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy. [1913 Webster]
- He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15. [1913 Webster]
- [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct. [1913 Webster]
- Acoustic vessels. See under Acoustic.
- Weaker vessel, a woman; -- now applied humorously. "Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel." --1 Peter iii. 7. "You are the weaker vessel." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Vessel'
From: GCIDE
- Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t. To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vessel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aircraft carrier,
- aircraft tender,
- ammunition ship,
- argosy,
- ark,
- assault transport,
- bark,
- battleship,
- bawley,
- beaker,
- bilander,
- blackjack,
- boat,
- bomb ketch,
- bottom,
- bowl,
- brig,
- brigantine,
- bucket,
- bully,
- buss,
- canal,
- capital ship,
- caravel,
- carrier,
- cat,
- catamaran,
- chalice,
- clipper,
- coast guard cutter,
- coffee cup,
- communications ship,
- container,
- convoy,
- corsair,
- corvette,
- craft,
- cruiser,
- cutter,
- dandy,
- depot ship,
- destroyer,
- destroyer leader,
- destroyer tender,
- dhow,
- dispatch boat,
- dreadnought,
- dromond,
- duct,
- eagle boat,
- eggcup,
- emunctory,
- escort carrier,
- escort vessel,
- Eustachian tube,
- Fallopian tube,
- fire ship,
- first-rate,
- fishing smack,
- fistula,
- flagship,
- flattie,
- flattop,
- four-masted bark,
- four-master,
- frigate,
- fuel ship,
- galiot,
- galleass,
- galleon,
- glass,
- goblet,
- guided missile cruiser,
- gunboat,
- heavy cruiser,
- highball glass,
- holder,
- hooker,
- horn,
- hospital ship,
- hoy,
- hulk,
- hull,
- ice yacht,
- intestines,
- ironclad,
- jigger,
- junk,
- keel,
- keelboat,
- ketch,
- knockabout,
- landing craft,
- lateen,
- lateener,
- LC,
- leviathan,
- liberty boat,
- light cruiser,
- line-of-battle ship,
- lorcha,
- loving cup,
- LSD,
- LSM,
- lugger,
- meatus,
- mine sweeper,
- minisub,
- monitor,
- mosquito boat,
- mug,
- nobby,
- noggin,
- ocean racer,
- ostium,
- outrigger,
- oviduct,
- packet,
- patrol boat,
- picketboat,
- pilot boat,
- pinnace,
- piragua,
- pirogue,
- pony,
- pore,
- pram,
- privateer,
- protected cruiser,
- pungy,
- racing yacht,
- raider,
- ram,
- receiver,
- receiving ship,
- receptacle,
- reconnaissance ship,
- rigger,
- rocket boat,
- sailing auxiliary,
- sailing canoe,
- sailing dinghy,
- sailing packet,
- sailing trawler,
- salpinx,
- sampan,
- sandbagger,
- SC,
- schooner,
- schooper,
- scooter,
- scout,
- scout cruiser,
- seaplane carrier,
- shallop,
- sharpie,
- shell,
- ship,
- ship of war,
- shipentine,
- shipplane carrier,
- shot glass,
- skipjack,
- sloop,
- smack,
- smack boat,
- snow,
- spy ship,
- stein,
- storeship,
- storm boat,
- submarine,
- submarine chaser,
- submarine patrol boat,
- submarine tender,
- submersible,
- superdreadnought,
- sweeper,
- tankard,
- tanker,
- tartan,
- tassie,
- teacup,
- tender,
- thoracic duct,
- topsail schooner,
- transport,
- trimaran,
- troopship,
- tub,
- tumbler,
- turret ship,
- ureter,
- urethra,
- utensil,
- vagina,
- vas,
- warship,
- watercraft,
- well smack,
- whaler,
- wineglass,
- wool-clipper,
- xebec,
- yacht,
- yawl
Words containing 'Vessel'
- Vesselful,
- Vesselfuls,
- Acoustic vessels,
- Blood vessel,
- Bomb vessel,
- Coasting vessel,
- Dewar vessel,
- Dorsal vessel,
- Milk vessel,
- Mortar vessel,
- Packet vessel,
- Pseudhaemal vessels,
- Radical vessels,
- Seed vessel,
- Silk vessel,
- Steam vessel,
- Tank vessel,
- To drop a vessel,
- To fend off a vessel,
- To right a vessel,
- To tend a vessel,
- Vital vessels,
- Weaker vessel,
- capillary vessel,
- cargo vessel,
- container vessel,
- drinking vessel,
- fishing vessel,
- lymph vessel,
- lymphatic vessel,
- merchant vessels,
- sailing vessel,
- transport vessel,
- war vessel,
- To eat the wind out of a vessel,
- To put a vessel into commission,
- To put a vessel out of commission,
- arterial blood vessel,
- venous blood vessel