Vessel

Noun

 * 1)  A general term for all kinds of craft designed for transportation on water, such as ships or boats.
 * 2) * 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * ''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.
 * 1) A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher
 * 2) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
 * 3) * Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:
 * I am a vessel that’s empty and useless I am a bad seed that fell by the wayI am a loser that wants to be a winnerAnd you are my last hopeDon’t turn me away.
 * 1)  A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
 * blood or lymph vessels in humans, xylem or phloem vessels in plants

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:vessel

Derived terms

 * broken vessel
 * empty vessels make the most sound
 * lightvessel


 * microvessel
 * pressure vessel
 * reaction vessel


 * unvessel
 * weaker vessel

Thesaurus
Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, LC, LSD, LSM, SC, 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, 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, leviathan, liberty boat, light cruiser, line-of-battle ship, lorcha, loving cup, 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, 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

Etymology
vaissel:, from vascellum:, diminutive of vasculum:, diminutive of vas:.

Translations

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 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern: ,
 * Hungarian: vízi jármű,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 船舶 (せんぱく, senpaku)


 * Korean: 배 (bae), 선박 (船舶, seonbak)
 * Macedonian: пловило
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఓడ (ODa)
 * West Frisian: doaze


 * Czech:
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 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 容器 (ようき, yōki)


 * Korean: 그릇 (geureut)
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: behållare
 * Telugu: పాత్ర (paatra)
 * West Frisian: fet, bokse


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian:
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Anagrams

 * selves