Vessel

Quick meaning: Vessel is a noun meaning A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.

[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

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

Word Forms

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

Synonyms for vessel

Depending on context, synonyms include vas, watercraft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include watercraft, vas, ship, barge, houseboat, boat.

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