Definition of Vessel

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Vessel

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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Vessel Quotations

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
Plato

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Walter Lippmann

Vessel Translations

vessel in Afrikaans is skip, boks, pot
vessel in Danish is skib, beholder
vessel in Dutch is pot, foedraal, bak, doos, etui, koker
vessel in Italian is recipiente, vascello
vessel in Latin is navis navis

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