Meaning

A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space..

Definitions by Sense

1. A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
2. (uncountable, obsolete or dialectal) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
3. A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
4. (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
5. (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
6. (transitive) To put into a vessel.

Example Sentences

All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.

A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.

But the Lord said vnto him, Goe thy way: for hee is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel.

[The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.

I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way

But they [Christian nationalists] excuse all that by saying God works in mysterious ways, and that he sent us this flawed vessel by which we can achieve the goals that we want to achieve.

Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.

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.

Word Forms

• vessels
• vessell
• vesseling
• vesselling
• vesseled
• vesselled

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When Should You Use Vessel?

Use vessel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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