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Definition of Vessel

Vessel 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. 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. 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. Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. 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. To put into a vessel. Related Definitions: And, Any, Anything, Are, Arteries, As, Barrel, Blood, Bottle, Bowl, By, Canal, Common, Concave, Conceived, Contained, Containing, Continuous, Cup, Cylindrical, Deposition, Duct, Especially, Fig, Firkin, Float, For, Formed, From, General, Have, Hogshead, Holding, Hollow, In, Internal, Intervening, Into, Is, Kettle, Kind, Large, Lost, Made, Marked, Mercy, Name, Navigation, Of, One, Or, Other, Passenger, Person, Poured, Prismatic, Put, Receiving, Receptacle, Regarded, Rowboat, Script, Secondary, Secreted, Something, Stored, Structure, Superposed, Than, That, The, Their, To, Tracheae, Tube, Upon, Use, Utensil, Vessel, War, Water, Which, Whom, With, Wrath

Vessel Quotations Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. William Shakespeare Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I'm just a vessel of information. Steven Cojocaru

Vessel Translations vessel in Afrikaans is skip, boks, pot vessel in Danish is skib, beholder vessel in Dutch is pot, foedraal, bak, doos, etui, koker vessel in Italian is recipiente, vascello vessel in Latin is navis navis

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