Definitions for vessel

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vessel ves·sel

Spelling: [ves-uh l]

IPA: /ˈvɛs əl/

Vessel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in vessel (eelssv).

Definitions for vessel

noun

1. a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.
2. an airship.
3. a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.
4. Anatomy, Zoology. a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.
5. Botany. a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients. Compare tracheid.
6. a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial:

Origin of vessel

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French vessel, va(i)ssel Latin vāscellum, equivalent to vās (see vase) + -cellum diminutive suffix

Examples for vessel

The tests in the study assumed that the ship would displace about 9690-tons; the Zumwalt is a 15,500-ton vessel.

The vessel might hold together till morning, but who could tell?

Local mechanics pitched in to help mend the craft, but weeks into setting off the repairs wore thin and the vessel sprung a leak.

Made at once for the vessel, and, on reaching her, found all well and glad to see us.

Within a matter of hours, the vessel that Mooney had crafted began to sink.

His vessel, named “Never Give Up,” was damaged during transportation.

In CDC-speak, the problem is filed under the vessel sanitation program (VSP).

He was already a mile distant from the vessel when Captain Haley came on deck.

Bates touched his hat, for he judged this was the captain of the vessel he had seen.

If he had been picked up by any vessel I suppose he would have written.