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ves·sel 
[ves-uhl] Pronunciation Key
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[ves-uhl] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat. |
| 2. | an airship. |
| 3. | a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents. |
| 4. | Anatomy, Zoology. a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid. |
| 5. | Botany. a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients. Compare tracheid. |
| 6. | a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, esp. something nonmaterial: a vessel of grace; a vessel of wrath. |
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < AF, OF vessel, va(i)ssel < L vāscellum, equiv. to vās (see vase) + -cellum dim. suffix]
] —Related forms
vesseled; especially British, vesselled, adjective
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| ves·sel
(věs'əl) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of Latin vāsculum, diminutive of vās, vessel.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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vessel
c.1303, "container," from O.Fr. vessel (Fr. vaisseau) from L. vascellum "small vase or urn," also "a ship," dim. of vasculum, itself a dim. of vas "vessel." Sense of "ship, boat" is found in Eng. c.1300. "The association between hollow utensils and boats appears in all languages" [Weekley]. Meaning "canal or duct of the body" (esp. for carrying blood) is attested from 1398.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| vessel | |
noun | |
| 1. | a tube in which a body fluid circulates |
| 2. | a craft designed for water transportation |
| 3. | an object used as a container (especially for liquids) |
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vessel ves·sel (věs'əl)
n.
A duct, canal, or other tube that contains or conveys a body fluid such as blood or lymph.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, Vase.]1. 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. [They drank] out of these noble vessels. --Chaucer. 2. 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. [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk. --Milton. 3. 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. He is a chosen vessel unto me. --Acts ix. 15. [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter. --Milton. 4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. 5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[ae]), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct. Acoustic vessels. See under Acoustic. Weaker vessel, a woman; -- now applied humorously. "Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel." --1 Peter iii. 7. "You are the weaker vessel." --Shak.
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Ves"sel\, v. t. To put into a vessel. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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