Meaning of 'vessel' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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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