Definition of vessel Vessel
/vɛˈsʌl/ - [vesul] - ves•sel
We found 21 definitions of vessel from 8 different sources.
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What does vessel mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: vessels |
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| vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids) | ||
| container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | ||
| autoclave, steriliser, sterilizer a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | ||
| cask, barrel the quantity a cask will hold | ||
| base a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp" | ||
| basin a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; "she mixed the dough in a large basin" | ||
| bath you soak and wash your body in a bathtub; "he has a good bath every morning" | ||
| bathing tub, bathtub, tub, bath a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | ||
| bedpan a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination | ||
| steam boiler, boiler sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | ||
| bone-ash cup, cupel, refractory pot a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead | ||
| bottle a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | ||
| feeding bottle, nursing bottle, bottle a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped | ||
| bowl a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods | ||
| brim, lip, rim a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat | ||
| bucket, pail a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top | ||
| censer, thurible a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual) | ||
| butter churn, churn a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk | ||
| crucible, melting pot a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions | ||
| drinking vessel a vessel intended for drinking | ||
| metal drum, drum small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | ||
| eye cup, eyebath, eyecup a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball; "an eyecup is called an eyebath in Britain" | ||
| flagon a large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout; used to hold alcoholic beverages (usually wine) | ||
| jar a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles | ||
| ladle a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another | ||
| ostensorium, monstrance (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | ||
| mortar a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | ||
| muller a vessel in which wine is mulled | ||
| ewer, pitcher the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" | ||
| poacher small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters | ||
| pot metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid | ||
| retort a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat | ||
| steeper a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping | ||
| storage tank, tank a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids | ||
| tin a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking | ||
| vat, tub a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production | ||
| urceole a vessel that holds water for washing the hands | ||
| water jacket a container filled with water that surrounds a machine to cool it; especially that surrounding the cylinder block of an engine | ||
| vessel - a craft designed for water transportation | ||
| watercraft | ||
| craft a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space | ||
| ground tackle, anchor a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving | ||
| bareboat a vessel (such as a yacht) that can be chartered without a captain or crew or provisions | ||
| bilge where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom | ||
| bilge keel either of two lengthwise fins attached along the outside of a ship's bilge; reduces rolling | ||
| boat a small vessel for travel on water | ||
| fore, prow, stem, bow the tube of a tobacco pipe | ||
| fishing boat, fishing smack, fishing vessel a vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive | ||
| galley the area for food preparation on a ship | ||
| galley the area for food preparation on a ship | ||
| hull the frame or body of ship | ||
| ice yacht, iceboat, scooter a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice | ||
| patrol boat, patrol ship a vessel assigned to patrol an area | ||
| rudder (nautical) steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel | ||
| sailing ship, sailing vessel a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts | ||
| ship a vessel that carries passengers or freight | ||
| shrimper a vessel engaged in shrimping | ||
| strake, wale thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship | ||
| splashboard, washboard protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | ||
| weather ship an oceangoing vessel equipped to make meteorological observations | ||
| vessel - a tube in which a body fluid circulates | ||
| vas | ||
| tube-shaped structure, tube conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | ||
| vascular system the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant | ||
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Wiktionary 
- vessel (Noun)
Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat. - vessel (Noun)
A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher. - vessel (Noun)
A person as a container of qualities or feelings. - vessel (Noun)
A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant. - vessel (Verb)
To put into a vessel.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- vessel (n.)
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. - vessel (n.)
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. - vessel (n.)
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. - vessel (n.)
Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. - vessel (n.)
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. - vessel (v. t.)
To put into a vessel.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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vessel
A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant. -
vessel
A general term for all kinds of craft designed for transportation on water, such as ships or boats. -
vessel
An object used as a container (e.g. for liquids).
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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vessel
batiment, a general name given to the different sorts of ships which are navigated on the ocean, or in canals and rivers. It is, however, more particularly applied to those of the smaller kind, furnished with one or two masts.It has already been remarked in the article SHIP, that the views of utility, which ought always to be considered in a work of this kind, seemed to limit our general account of shipping to those which are most frequently employed in European navigation. We have therefore collected into one point of view the principal of these in plate XII.; so that the reader who is unacquainted with marine affairs, may the more easily perceive their distinguishing characters, which are also more particularly described under the reflective articles.Thus fig. 4. plate XII. exhibits a snow under sail; fig. 5. represents a ketch at anchor; fig. 6. a brig or brigantine; fig. 7. a bilander; fig. 8. a xebec; fig. 9. a schooner; fig. 10. a galliot; fig. 11. a dogger; all of which are under sail; fig. 12. & 13. two galleys, one of which is under sail, and the other rowing; and fig. 14. a sloop.The ketch, whose sails are furled, is furnished with a try-sail, like the snow; and it has a fore-sail, fore-staysail, and jib, nearly similar to those of a sloop; but the sails on the main-mast and mizen-mast are like those of a ship. The main-sail and main-topsail of the brig are like those of the schooner; and the fore-mast is rigged and equipped with sails in the same manner as the ship and snow. The sails, masts, and yards of the xebec, being extremely different from these, are described at large under the article. In the schooner both the mainsail and foresail are extended by a boom and gaff, as likewise is the sloop’s mainsail; the sails of the dogger and galliot are sufficiently expressed in the plate; and, finally, the galleys are navigated with lateen-sails, which are extremely different from those of the vessels above described.Agent VICTUALLER. See AGENT VICTUALLER.To UNBALLAST, delester, to discharge the ballast of a ship.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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vessel
A general name for all the different sorts of ships, boats, &c., navigated on the ocean or on rivers and canals.
Wikipedia 
- A vessel is a ship or boat. The word is also used as a technical term sometimes to talk about containers for holding liquids, like a Bronze Age drinking vessel, or to describe the tubes carrying liquids in animals or plants, like blood vessels or xylem vessels.
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🔤- vessel, noun, singular of vessels.
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