Sekirov Dictionary

vessel

/ˈvɛsəl/

noun 7
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 2

noun7

A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
a ship, a large boat, or a machine that travels through the air or into space
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Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter. — 1873
A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
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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.
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(figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.
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(dialect, no longer used) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
- All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis. — 1523

verb1

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To put into a vessel.
- The fourth Rule shall be, to marke what Herbs, some Earths doe put fourth of themselves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Vessell it; And in that to set the Seed you would change […] — 1627

forms

vesseled · vesselled · vesseling · vesselling · vessels

Phrases with vessel

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