Vessel

What do we mean by vessel?

A hollow utensil, such as a cup, vase, or pitcher, used as a container, especially for liquids. noun

A craft, especially one larger than a rowboat, designed to navigate on water. noun

An airship. noun

A duct, canal, or other tube that contains or conveys a body fluid. noun

One of the tubular water-conducting structures of xylem, consisting of a series of vessel elements attached end to end and connected by perforations. Vessels are found in nearly all flowering plants. noun

A person seen as the agent or embodiment, as of a quality. noun

A utensil for holding liquors and other things, as a cask, a barrel, a bottle, a kettle, a pot, a cup, or a dish. noun

Specifically, In metallurgy, the converter in which Bessemer steel is made. See steel. noun

A ship; a craft of any kind: usually a larger craft than a boat, but in law often construed to mean any floating structure. noun

In anatomy and zoology, any duct or canal in which a fluid, as blood or lymph, is secreted, contained, or conveyed, as an artery, vein, capillary, lymphatic, or spermatic; especially, a blood-vessel. A part or organ pervaded or well provided with vessels is said to be vascular. noun

In botany, same as duct—that is, a row of cells which have lost their intervening partitions, and consequently form a long continuous canal. noun

Figuratively, something conceived as formed to receive or contain; hence, especially in Scriptural phraseology, a person into whom anything is conceived as poured or infused, or to whom something has been imparted; a recipient. noun

Vessels collectively; plate. noun

See the adjectives. noun

To put into a vessel.

To put into a vessel. transitive verb

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. 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 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. noun

Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.

A craft designed for transportation through air or space.

Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.

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

A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

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

Words that are spelled similarly to vessel:
vessel, nessel, wessel, bessel, vessal, hessel, kessel, vassel, jessel, vesses, fessel, messel, sessel, vessey, vensel, vessell, gessel, tessel.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word vessel:
motorboat, scrapping, aground, schooner, towed, scrap, sank, sunk, vessels, salvage, shipyard, steamer, ferries, ship, shipbuilding, yacht, uss, scrapped, sail, cargo, tons, wreck, propulsion, sinking, sailing, decommissioned, sailed, hms, maritime, hull, register, reactor, submarine, voyage, crew, offshore, patrol, displacement, navy, rescued, boat, torpedo, dock, deck, stern, aboard, beam, cruise, ferry, steam, bow, shipping, ships, pirates, craft, carrying, escort, laid, destroyer, fitted, navigation, waters, harbour, equipped, naval, commissioned, convoy, boats, fleet, merchant, port, powered, harbor, struck, yard, fishing, rescue, captain, guns, captured, depth, bear, shore, coast, damaged, sold, departed, marine.

Words that rhyme with vessel:
trestle, nestle, wrestle, sessile, mescal, nessel, cresol, cresselle, tressel, wessel, chessel, cresyl, chesil, chessil, mesel, hessel, kessel, wesil, dressel, gesell, lescol, fessel, messel, vessell, wessell, gessel, kessell, estle, express il, graessle, kesel, kessle, less ill, pressel, ressel, unless ill, vesel.

Adjectives that are often used to describe vessel:
small, large, little, american, blood, single, closed, british, english, cylindrical, larger, naval, french, earthen, open, empty, armed, neutral, wooden, foreign, smaller, largest, spanish, shaped, suitable, dutch, lymphatic, weaker, fine, dorsal, latter, separate, masted, outer, three, shallow, sacred, strange, ton, rigged, inner, broken, wrecked, close, clean, covered, japanese, huge, occluded, walled, portuguese, chosen, hollow, holy, driven, stranded, coronary, golden, light, injured, ceramic, mixing, frail, ruptured, cerebral, spherical, russian, tiny, built, noble, pressure.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective vessel:
form, shape, source, loads, layer, decoration, tone, operating, tonnage, function, based, commanders, target, thunder, damage, owners, wall.

Consonant match to vessel:
vassal, vasile, versal, vasil, vassel, vessell, vsel, v cell, vesel.

Words that sound like vessel:
vessel, vessal, visile, vassal, vassel, vasile, vasal, vassell, vsl, vassil, wassail, vessels, vestal, versal, vasil, vesa, vensel, wessel, wesel, fessel, visceral, vishal, whistle, vowel, vial, viol, vassals, fissile, wasa, voxel, vasa, wissel, verile, fussell, vesey, vasily, fissle, vessey, vosa, vesak, vicing, vancil, vassa, vsa, chesil, vesses, vaasa, vachel, vossler, vennel, vesi, voshell, wisl, verrel, vassily, wrestle, fossil, facile, kessel, voicing, wiesel, weisel, sessile, fossile, facil, decile, fosil, jessel, wassel, decil, hessel, wasl, usul, gessel, gesell, kessell, tesl, sessel, fasl, wesil, vigil, vison, giselle, virile, visio, vittle, vowell, viril, voces, vielle, visu, vigile, voci, fascell, vieil, visone, wassailer, chisel, bessel, casul.