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noun

a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.

an airship.

a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.

Anatomy, Zoology. a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.

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.

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a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial: a vessel of grace; a vessel of wrath.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French vessel, va(i)ssel < Latin vāscellum, equivalent to vās (see vase) + -cellum diminutive suffix

Related forms

ves·seled; especially British, ves·selled, adjective

un·ves·seled, adjective

Can be confused: vassal, vessel.

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Neither will a new campus make the vessel more seaworthy.

The reactor core which includes these rods, and the water it sits in, are contained within a thick steel pressure vessel.

Decorated polychrome vessel recovered from the burial of the hieroglyphic stairway.

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Neither will a new campus make the vessel more seaworthy.

The reactor core which includes these rods, and the water it sits in, are contained within a thick steel pressure vessel.

Decorated polychrome vessel recovered from the burial of the hieroglyphic stairway.

The containment vessel for any meltdown may not even hold and in that case an untold amount of radiation could escape.

They suspect that a fishing vessel picked it up accidentally.

Turn a shadow-box frame into a vessel for your favorite things from the garden or the florist.

The reed is not original, the rest of the vessel is.

The boat, a big industrial vessel known as a purse seiner, was easy prey.

Now the captain and his officers decide their only hope is to somehow get water into the reactor pressure vessel to cool the core.

Miniature vessel mimics insect larvae by using surface tension for propulsion.

Steering her was futile, and the vessel slid slowly down the wall of the gyre.

For wet stuffing: remove from vessel and spread out on a sheet pan.

The reactor vessel would burst into a primary containment vessel, which would limit the immediate spread of radioactive materials.

And decoys can be fired to trick the missile's homing sensors and lure it away from the vessel under attack.

Part of that plan involves monitoring the effects of vessel traffic on killer whales.

The team employed computer simulations to explore the adhesion between a blood-borne cell and a surface akin to a vessel wall.

Freeing a beached vessel usually involved the laborious unloading of cargo until the boat rode high enough to clear the snag.

Although the new owners have remained private, they've indicated they are planning to finish the vessel and use it for transport.

Hijacks often end with sackloads of cash being exchanged for the captured vessel and crew.

Solar ovens cook food by concentrating the sun's rays on a cooking vessel to heat it.

Tanaka says the vessel was damaged in the production process.

He had interrupted his studies for a stint as ship's surgeon aboard a whaling vessel.

Some heat the cooking vessel on all sides, while others heat only from the bottom.

More advanced bubbles are only a few hundred nanometres across and can move easily through the lining of a blood vessel.

Hunley became the first underwater vessel to sink an enemy ship in battle.

The tiny structures lay in a blood vessel channel that wound through the pale yellow hard tissue.

With all but one of the ship's hands accounted for, all eyes turned back to the battered vessel.

Winslow sees the vasoconstriction as a reflex that is susceptible to the ebb and flow of oxygen in the vessel.

If one explodes, a blood clot forms that may close up the vessel completely within seconds, triggering a sudden heart attack.

Icebreakers free a drilling vessel from its icebound berth.

The machines also often carry a variety of sensors and cameras, transmitting data and images back to the surface vessel.

At high speed, the nose deflects water away from the surfaces of the vessel.

Further on gleaming ranks of cars await their vessel.

Typical seabed oil exploration involves towing an array of giant air guns behind a research vessel.

He's bringing a robotic archaeologist to scour the vessel.

Butts was lucky-he escaped the waterlogged vessel before it sank.

Since a taumatic brain episode in which a blood vessel burst in a brain tumor, much of my memory for details is kaput.

The best approach is to use a length of vessel taken from elsewhere in the patient's body.

It was discovered when a blood vessel in the tumor burst creating all the symptoms of a stroke.

They have put annual restrictions on total catch both at the fishery and vessel levels, ending seasons once the quotas are met.

Remove the vessel and you have a tank full of clear, fizzy beer.

It may even be possible to modify the cancer blood vessel cells to secrete factors that would inhibit cancer cell growth.

The sailors also left some more intimate items aboard the vessel.

For each, food is a powerful vessel of shared traditions, a direct pipeline into the soul of a community.

Nobody knew exactly what was happening inside the containment vessel and, more importantly, what was coming out of.

Why your vessel seized our fishermen, shot and killed them.

These algae now release their oil, which floats to the surface of the culture vessel.

Rolfe's vessel twisted so much in the waves that the caulking popped from its seams.

Normally, these vents release car exhaust from the deep holds as vehicles are driven on and off the vessel.

The laws of the sea do not permit any naval vessel to prevent a boat in international waters from carrying on with its journey.

The severed body part is reeled onto the research vessel in the lower photograph.

They are not contained in the same kind of vessel as active fuel rods.

Since then, no scientific vessel has been back over the area to collect more data.

If not, your vessel must crash through high, crested walls of water.

Of course, the ideal vessel should have lines as noble as the surroundings and room for a payload of toys.

All gearing aboard the vessel has machine-cut teeth.

The rocket took a fast turn to one side and overflew the mission control vessel after a few seconds.

The containment vessel protecting the core was said to be undamaged.

She was one of three people who traveled to the newly discovered underworld in a submersible vessel.

In shallower water, the image could be sent to the vessel directly by the robot scanning the seabed.

Should the vessel capsize, a buoyant roof will keep it from flipping over.

We came out covered with oil that slowly leaks from the vessel.

The stylet is what is pushed through the skin to find a blood vessel inside.

Hijacking a ship on the high seas is not always the easiest way to obtain a vessel in which to transport stolen cargoes.

Hunley, have been found inside the long-submerged vessel that was raised last year off the.

Why dont you send down a robotic vessel and see how far it gets thrown back by the pressure.

The remains of a crashed vessel jut from the ground.

But because the thresholds for the activation of sweating and blood vessel dilation, as well as for perceiving heat.

The pirates then scored a major ransom in return for the arms and the vessel.

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World English Dictionary

vessel (ˈvɛs^əl)

—n
1.	any object used as a container, esp for a liquid
2.	a passenger or freight-carrying ship, boat, etc
3.	an aircraft, esp an airship
4.	anatomy a tubular structure that transports such body fluids as blood and lymph
5.	botany a tubular element of xylem tissue consisting of a row of cells in which the connecting cell walls have broken down
6.	rare a person regarded as an agent or vehicle for some purpose or quality: she was the vessel of the Lord

[C13: from Old French vaissel, from Late Latin vascellum urn, from Latin vās vessel]

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Word Origin & History

vessel

c.1300, "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

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or duct of the body" (esp. for carrying blood) is attested from late 14c.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

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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Science Dictionary

vessel (věs'əl) Pronunciation Key

A blood vessel.
A long, continuous column made of the lignified walls of dead vessel elements, along which water flows in the xylem of angiosperms.

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vessel

in botany, the most specialized and efficient conducting structure of xylem (fluid-conducting tissues). Characteristic of most flowering plants and absent from most gymnosperms and ferns, vessels are thought to have evolved from tracheids (a primitive form of water-conducting cell) by loss of the end walls.

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