Definitions for VESSEL
ˈvɛs əlves·sel

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. vessel, vasnoun

   a tube in which a body fluid circulates

2. vessel, watercraftnoun

   a craft designed for water transportation

3. vesselnoun

   an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.8 / 4 votes

1. vesselnoun

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

2. vesselnoun

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

3. vesselnoun

   A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

4. vesselnoun

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

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

5. Etymology: vaissel, from vascellum, diminutive of vasculum, diminutive of vas.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vessel

   A vessel generally refers to a hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, like a bowl or cask. In maritime terms, it refers to a large watercraft or ship. In anatomical terms, it can refer to a tube or duct transporting fluid, like a blood vessel. The term can also describe a person or thing seen as a holder or receiver of a quality or as a channel for conveying something.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Vesselnoun

   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. Vesselnoun

   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. Vesselnoun

   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. Vesselnoun

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

5. Vesselnoun

   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. Vesselverb

   to put into a vessel

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

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vessel

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

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vessel

   A structure that conveys a form of fluid within the body of an animal, human being of other living organism.

   The body has blood vessels and vessels that convey lymph also.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 7, 2020  

2. ---

   vessel

   A type of transport

   The vessel did remain on shore to refuel.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 26, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. VESSEL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Vessel is ranked #42511 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Vessel surname appeared 510 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Vessel.
   
   56.4% or 288 total occurrences were Black.
   36.8% or 188 total occurrences were White.
   2.9% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.1% or 11 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Container
   • Craft
   • Tube

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

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Anagrams for VESSEL »

1. selves

How to pronounce VESSEL?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say VESSEL in sign language?

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. Steve Lehmann:

   It's one thing for the boys to be missing inside the vessel, and it's another thing for them to be missing in open water. ... Now they're in an even worse situation if they are to be in the water right now.

2. David Brewster:

   India sees the presence of any Chinese naval vessel as an intrusion. There is a big ramp-up in their presence, which is clearly intended to send a message to India.

3. Owner South Maritime Pte Ltd:

   At 0800 hrs GMT, a number of craft approached the Alpine Eternity firing warning shots and the master was ordered by VHF to stop, the master ignored the order and broke away from his passage and headed into UAE waters at the same time requesting assistance. At the point when the order was ignored and when the vessel changed course it was directly fired upon.

4. Julian Tang:

   That’s the perfect mixing vessel for the virus to spread and to even generate new variants.

5. E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic:

   When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=VESSEL
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vessel
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/VESSEL
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=VESSEL
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=VESSEL
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=VESSEL
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=VESSEL