Meaning of vessel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. boat, dinghy
2. A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
3. Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
4. vessel, can, canister, container, jar, tin
5. A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
6. jackpot, pot, pool (large cash prize)
7. Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
   dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
8. jail
9. A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
10. butt, booty
11. A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
    figuratively
12. A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

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Examples

“But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.”

“Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.”

“He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.”

“Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.”

“Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.”

“All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.”

“A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.”

“But the Lord said vnto him, Goe thy way: for hee is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel.”

“[The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.”

“I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way”

“But they [Christian nationalists] excuse all that by saying God works in mysterious ways, and that he sent us this flawed vessel by which we can achieve the goals that we want to achieve.”

“Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.”

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