vessel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
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-Indo-European *-elós
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: vessels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vessell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: vessels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vesseling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: vesselling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: vesseled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: vesseled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: vesselled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: vesselled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: vessell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
pos: noun
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.
gloss: A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
obsolete
uncountable
examples: All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.
gloss: A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
pos: noun
gloss: A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
pos: noun
examples: Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.
gloss: To put into a vessel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,”
Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed.
1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie, London: W. Lee, Cent. VI, section 529, p. 137,
The fourth Rule ſhall be, to marke what Herbs, ſome Earths doe put fourth of themſelves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſell it; And in that to ſet the Seed you would change […]
Man had at the firſt, and ſo have all ſouls before their entrance into the body, an explicite methodicall knowledge, but they are no ſooner veſſel’d, but that liberty is loſt, and nothing remains but a vaſt confuſed notion of the creature […]
[Samuel 'Sam' Oliver:] Alright (or: All right), so the Devil didn't say that the winner was the one who vesseled (or: vesselled) him, just the one who sends him back to hell.
Synonyms: vessel
Related words: watercraft
drinkware
:Category:Containers
Derived words: collateral vessel
empty vessels make the most sound
space vessel
vessel element
vessel flute
vesselful
vesselness
vessel sink
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: anë
lang: Arabic
word: فُلْك
roman: fulk
lang: Azerbaijani
word: gəmi
lang: Belarusian
word: судзі́на
roman: sudzína
lang: Belarusian
word: су́дзіна
roman: súdzina
lang: Belarusian
word: су́дна
roman: súdna
lang: Belarusian
word: карабе́ль
roman: karabjélʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: плава́телен съд
roman: plavátelen sǎd
lang: Bulgarian
word: ко́раб
roman: kórab
lang: Burmese
word: သင်္ဘော
roman: sangbhau:
lang: Catalan
word: vaixell
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 船隻 /船只
roman: chuánzhī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 船
roman: chuán
lang: Czech
word: loď
lang: Czech
word: plavidlo
lang: Danish
word: fartøj
lang: Dutch
word: vaartuig
lang: Faroese
word: far
lang: Finnish
word: alus
lang: French
word: vaisseau
lang: West-Frisian
word: doaze
lang: Galician
word: navío
lang: Georgian
word: ხომალდი
roman: xomaldi
lang: Georgian
word: გემი
roman: gemi
lang: German
word: Schiff
lang: German
word: Boot
lang: German
word: Wasserfahrzeug
lang: Greek
word: σκάφος
roman: skáfos
lang: Greek
word: πλοίο
roman: ploío
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πλοίον
roman: ploíon
lang: Gujarati
word: વહાણ
roman: vahāṇ
lang: Gujarati
word: જહાજ
roman: jahāj
lang: Hindi
word: पोत
roman: pot
lang: Hungarian
word: vízi jármű
lang: Hungarian
word: hajó
lang: Icelandic
word: æð
lang: Indonesian
word: kapal
lang: Indonesian
word: perahu
lang: Ingrian
word: alus
lang: Ingrian
word: laiva
lang: Ingrian
word: soimi
lang: Italian
word: vascello
lang: Italian
word: imbarcazione
lang: Italian
word: bastimento
lang: Italian
word: nave
lang: Italian
word: barca
lang: Italian
word: barcone
lang: Italian
word: chiatta
lang: Italian
word: transatlantico
lang: Japanese
word: 船舶
roman: senpaku
lang: Kazakh
word: кеме
roman: keme
lang: Kazakh
word: қайық
roman: qaiyq
lang: Khmer
word: នាវា
roman: niəviə
lang: Khmer
word: ភេត្រា
roman: pheitraa
lang: Korean
word: 배
roman: bae
lang: Korean
word: 선박
roman: seonbak
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кеме
roman: keme
lang: Lao
word: ກໍ່າປັ່ນ
roman: kam pan
lang: Lao
word: ເຮືອ
roman: hư̄a
lang: Macedonian
word: пло́вило
roman: plóvilo
lang: Macedonian
word: ко́раб
roman: kórab
lang: Malay
word: kapal
lang: Malay
word: bot
lang: Māori
word: waka
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: acalli
lang: Navajo
word: tsin naaʼeeł
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fartøy
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: farkost
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: fartøy
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: farkost
lang: Occitan
word: vaissèl
lang: Old East Slavic
word: судьно
roman: sudĭno
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کَشْتی
roman: kašti
lang: Polish
word: statek
lang: Portuguese
word: barco
lang: Portuguese
word: navio
lang: Portuguese
word: embarcação
lang: Romanian
word: ambarcațiune
lang: Romanian
word: vas
lang: Russian
word: су́дно
roman: súdno
lang: Russian
word: кора́бль
roman: koráblʹ
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: leˊtt
lang: Sardinian
word: feluga
lang: Sardinian
word: filuga
lang: Sardinian
word: feluca
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бро̑д
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: brȏd
lang: Slovak
word: loď
lang: Slovak
word: plavidlo
lang: Slovene
word: plovilo
lang: Slovene
word: ladja
lang: Spanish
word: embarcación
lang: Spanish
word: barco
lang: Spanish
word: casco
lang: Spanish
word: bajel
lang: Swedish
word: fartyg
lang: Tajik
word: киштӣ
roman: kišti
lang: Tajik
word: кема
roman: kema
lang: Telugu
word: ఓడ
roman: ōḍa
lang: Ternate
word: oti
lang: Thai
word: เรือ
roman: rʉʉa
lang: Turkish
word: tekne
lang: Turkish
word: gemi
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تكنه
roman: tekne
lang: Turkmen
word: gämi
lang: Ukrainian
word: судно́
roman: sudnó
lang: Ukrainian
word: корабе́ль
roman: korabélʹ
lang: Urdu
word: جَہاز
roman: jahāz
lang: Uyghur
word: كېمە
roman: këme
lang: Uzbek
word: kema
lang: Vietnamese
word: thuyền lớn
lang: Vietnamese
word: tàu thuỷ
lang: Vietnamese
word: tàu
lang: Welsh
word: llestr
lang: Welsh
word: cwch
lang: Southern Altai
word: тамыр
roman: tamïr
lang: Arabic
word: وِعَاء
roman: wiʕāʔ
lang: Armenian
word: անոթ
roman: anotʻ
lang: Aromanian
word: vas
lang: Bashkir
word: һауыт
roman: hawıt
lang: Belarusian
word: пасу́дзіна
roman: pasúdzina
lang: Bulgarian
word: съд
roman: sǎd
lang: Bulgarian
word: съди́на
roman: sǎdína
lang: Buryat
word: һаба
roman: haba
lang: Catalan
word: recipient
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 容器
roman: róngqì
lang: Czech
word: nádoba
lang: Dutch
word: vat
lang: Dutch
word: hulsel
lang: Esperanto
word: vazo
lang: Esperanto
word: ingo
lang: Finnish
word: astia
lang: Finnish
word: säiliö
lang: French
word: récipient
lang: French
word: vaisseau
lang: French
word: vase
lang: West-Frisian
word: fet
lang: West-Frisian
word: bokse
lang: Galician
word: vasilla
lang: Galician
word: perfia
lang: Galician
word: recipiente
lang: Georgian
word: ჭურჭელი
roman: č̣urč̣eli
lang: German
word: Gefäß
lang: German
word: Behälter
lang: German
word: Behältnis
lang: Greek
word: σκεύος
roman: skévos
lang: Greek
word: δοχείο
roman: docheío
lang: Greek
word: αγγείο
roman: angeío
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σκεῦος
roman: skeûos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀγγεῖον
roman: angeîon
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄγγος
roman: ángos
lang: Gujarati
word: વાસણ
roman: vāsaṇ
lang: Hebrew
word: כְּלִי
roman: kli
lang: Hindi
word: पात्र
roman: pātra
lang: Hindi
word: बर्तन
roman: bartan
lang: Hungarian
word: edény
lang: Hungarian
word: tál
lang: Ido
word: vazo
lang: Irish
word: leastar
lang: Irish
word: áras
lang: Irish
word: galún
lang: Irish
word: soitheach
lang: Old Irish
word: lestar
lang: Italian
word: recipiente
lang: Italian
word: contenitore
lang: Italian
word: brocca
lang: Italian
word: caraffa
lang: Italian
word: bricco
lang: Italian
word: cuccuma
lang: Italian
word: boccale
lang: Japanese
word: 容器
roman: yōki
lang: Kazakh
word: ыдыс
roman: ydys
lang: Korean
word: 그릇
roman: geureut
lang: Korean
word: 용기
roman: yonggi
lang: Kumyk
word: тамур
roman: tamur
lang: Kumyk
word: савут
roman: sawut
lang: Kyrgyz
word: идиш
roman: idiş
lang: Latgalian
word: trauks
lang: Latin
word: vās
lang: Latin
word: Latin: receptāculum
lang: Latvian
word: trauks
lang: Macedonian
word: сад
roman: sad
lang: Malayalam
word: കലം
roman: kalaṁ
lang: Māori
word: puoto
lang: Māori
word: oko
lang: Māori
word: peihana
lang: Māori
word: tīhake
lang: Marathi
word: भांडे
roman: bhāṇḍe
lang: Mongolian
word: сав
roman: sav
lang: Occitan
word: recipient
lang: Iranian Persian
word: ظَرْف
roman: zarf
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Behelta
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Jefäss
lang: Polish
word: naczynie
lang: Portuguese
word: vasilha
lang: Portuguese
word: vaso
lang: Portuguese
word: reservatório
lang: Portuguese
word: recipiente
lang: Romanian
word: recipient
lang: Romanian
word: vas
lang: Russian
word: сосу́д
roman: sosúd
lang: Slovak
word: nádoba
lang: Slovak
word: schránka
lang: Slovene
word: posoda
lang: Spanish
word: recipiente
lang: Spanish
word: vaso
lang: Spanish
word: vasija
lang: Spanish
word: cascajo
lang: Spanish
word: tiesto
lang: Swedish
word: behållare
lang: Tajik
word: зарф
roman: zarf
lang: Tajik
word: ҷогаҳ
roman: jogah
lang: Telugu
word: పాత్ర
roman: pātra
lang: Thai
word: ภาชนะ
roman: paa-chá-ná
lang: Tocharian B
word: lwāke
lang: Turkish
word: kap
lang: Ukrainian
word: посу́дина
roman: posúdyna
lang: Urdu
word: ظَرْف
roman: zarf
lang: Urdu
word: باسَن
roman: bāsan
lang: Urdu
word: بَرْتَن
roman: bartan
lang: Uzbek
word: idish
lang: Vietnamese
word: vò
lang: Vietnamese
word: hũ
lang: Welsh
word: llestr