Definitions for vessel
ˈvɛs əlves·sel

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. vessel, vas(noun)

   a tube in which a body fluid circulates

2. vessel, watercraft(noun)

   a craft designed for water transportation

3. vessel(noun)

   an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

Wiktionary(4.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. vessel(Noun)

   A general term for all kinds of craft designed for transportation on water, such as ships or boats.

2. vessel(Noun)

   A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher

3. vessel(Noun)

   A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

4. vessel(Noun)

   A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

   blood or lymph vessels in humans, xylem or phloem vessels in plants

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

Webster Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Vessel(noun)

   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

2. Vessel(noun)

   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

3. Vessel(noun)

   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

4. Vessel(noun)

   any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc

5. Vessel(noun)

   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

6. Vessel(verb)

   to put into a vessel

Origin: [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F. vaisseau, fr. L. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, Vase.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Vessel

   Vessel is an official DVD/home-video released by Björk on January 13, 2003. It contains a live performance by Björk on the Debut tour, recorded live at the The Royalty Theatre in London in May 1994. The concert is interspersed by short interviews with Björk on the streets of London, including her singing an improvisation to the sound of a car alarm and her thoughts on moving from Reykjavík to London. The track "Atlantic" is a live version of a B-side that was released only on the cassette single of "Human Behaviour" and Japanese pressings of Debut. The short improvisation sung by Björk and her tour band at the start of the DVD is "Gail Biffen", an early version of the track "I Miss You". The 1994 VHS release was re-released on DVD in 2003. The video was also released on LaserDisc in Japan on May 10th, 1994, a US release was announced but later canceled.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Vessel

   ves′el, n. a vase or utensil for holding something: a hollow structure made to float on water, used for conveyance, &c.: a tube in which fluids, as blood, &c., are contained: a person considered as an agent of God.—The weaker vessel, a phrase colloquially applied to a woman, in allusion to 1 Pet. iii. 7. [O. Fr. vessel (Fr. vaisseau)—L. vascellum, dim. of vas, a vase.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. vessel

   A general name for all the different sorts of ships, boats, &c., navigated on the ocean or on rivers and canals.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'vessel' in Nouns Frequency: #1405

Anagrams for vessel »

1. selves

How to pronounce vessel?

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   Alex

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   Karen

   Australian

   

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of vessel in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of vessel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of vessel in a Sentence

1. Matshona Dhliwayo:

   It is difficult to fill a broken vessel.

2. Terpsichore Lindeman:

   Cargo's impotance is defined by it's vessel.

3. Terpsichore Lindeman:

   Cargo's importance is defined by it's vessel.

4. Dmitri Barinov:

   It had not been used as a vessel for many years.

5. Jonny Bowden:

   Magnesium relaxes the blood vessel walls and the mind.

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