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.
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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus
I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold
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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