Meaning

6 senses
  1. 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.

    a craft designed for water transportation

  2. A craft designed for transportation through air or space.

    Schiff, Boot, Wasserfahrzeug

    су́дноsúdno, кора́бльkoráblʹ

    судно́sudnó, корабе́льkorabélʹ

  3. A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.

    Gefäß, Behälter, Behältnis

    сосу́дsosúd

    посу́динаposúdyna

  4. (figuratively)A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

    A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.

  5. A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

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

    Gefäß

    сосу́дsosúd

    суди́наsudýna

    a tube in which a body fluid circulates

  6. (dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.

Examples

75 sentences
  1. The surgeon accidentally nicked a blood vessel.

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  2. A cargo vessel, bound for Athens, sank in the Mediterranean without a trace.

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  3. The nurse hit a blood vessel.

    ruМедсестра попала в сосуд.

    deDie Krankenschwester traf ein Blutgefäß.

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  4. The vessel was surrounded by water.

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  5. A blood vessel broke in my eye.

    ruУ меня лопнул сосуд в глазу.

    deEin Blutgefäß platzte in meinem Auge.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
craft:
container:
tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant:
Русский
By meaning 2
craft:
container:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
craft:
container:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English vessel, vessell (“small container”); from Old French vaissel

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”).

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Forms

plural: vessels
Singularvessel

uncountable

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a craft designed for water transportation:watercraft
  • a tube in which a body fluid circulates:vas

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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