vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛs.əl/
ipa: [ˈvɛsɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: vessels
form: vessell
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wāss
Late Latin vās
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elom
Late Latin -ulum
Late Latin -culum
Late Latin vāsculum
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Late Latin -lus
Late Latin vāscellum
Old French vaisselbor.
Middle English vessel
English vessel
Inherited from Middle English vessel, vessell (“small container”); from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau and Catalan vaixell), from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vase, vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1873, Jules Verne, chapter I, in [anonymous], transl., Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas; […], James R. Osgood edition, Boston, Mass.: Geo[rge] M[urray] Smith & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 3:
text: 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.
ref: 1905, H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 March 23, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
synonyms: watercraft
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians Codex entry:
glosses: A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
examples: text: All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.
ref: 1523, John Bourchier, translated by Jean Froissart, Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart : of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flauders: and other places adioynynge.:
glosses: Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
glosses: A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
examples: text: A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.
text: He is a chosen vessel unto me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts ix:15:
text: [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.
ref: 1975, Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics
glosses: A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
examples: text: Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
Synonyms: word: vessel
Hypernyms: word: container
Hyponyms: word: blood vessel
word: bomb vessel
word: broken vessel
word: cargo vessel
word: coasting vessel
word: communicating vessel
word: Dewar vessel
word: dive support vessel
word: diving support vessel
word: dorsal vessel
word: expansion vessel
word: exvessel
word: fishing vessel
word: great vessel
word: lightvessel
word: lymphatic vessel
word: lymph vessel
word: macrovessel
word: microvessel
word: motor vessel
word: multivessel
word: nanovessel
word: neovessel
word: ocean station vessel
word: perivessel
word: pressure vessel
word: reaction vessel
word: sailing vessel
word: seed vessel
word: splenic vessel
word: star vessel
word: supply vessel
word: unvessel
word: weaker vessel
word: glass
word: cup
word: bottle
word: bowl
word: mug
word: pot
word: teapot
word: flowerpot
word: kettle
word: flask
word: jug
word: amphora
word: demijohn
word: bucket
word: barrel
word: goblet
word: pitcher
word: cask
word: tun
word: keg
word: butt
word: vial
Meronyms: word: handle
word: stem
Derived terms: collateral vessel
empty vessels make the most sound
space vessel
vessel element
vessel flute
vesselful
vesselness
vessel sink
Related terms: word: watercraft
word: drinkware
word: :Category:Containers