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vessel
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood vessel (=a tube in your body through which blood flows)
▪ the blood vessels that lead to the heart
blood vessel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fishing
▪ A yacht or fishing vessel would find it quite easy to evade our controls and could carry large amounts of contraband.
▪ Orthodox wooden construction is still being used today for fishing vessels, minesweepers and yachts of up to four or five hundred tons.
▪ Such a presence must take the form of an onshore administrative unit responsible for the management of the fishing vessel concerned.
▪ One night she had boarded a small fishing vessel moored at a small port near Yalta.
large
▪ This imposed an extra constraint on the larger vessels.
▪ Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
▪ They were definitely photographs of some very old and very large vessel half submerged in a glacier.
▪ Place in a large vessel and cover with cold water.
▪ There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel.
▪ The large fishing vessels we saw were all well maintained with modern equipment.
▪ Then it is put in large vessels where yeast is added to convert sugar to alcohol.
▪ The Ocean Princess is designed for today's more sophisticated traveller, being a world away from other large and impersonal vessels.
naval
▪ Passing an oil rig and numerous naval vessels, we moored alongside a jetty on the estuary leading up to the town.
▪ However, Burns was successfully transferred to a federal revenue cutter and returned to Virginia under the escort of several naval vessels.
▪ Reductions would affect especially artillery and anti-tank weapons, while procurement of naval vessels would be slowed.
▪ The deadlock was broken by the New Zealand government which offered the use of two of its naval vessels.
sailing
▪ But the illusion is soon shattered ... the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew.
▪ Steamers could carry larger volumes of cargo than sailing vessels and do it more frequently and regularly.
▪ Shall we see commercial sailing vessels ply the seas again?
small
▪ At first it looked empty, then he saw two small vessels, just short of the horizon, their motion imperceptible.
▪ Hypercalcemia, rarely, may also cause seizures, possibly related to small cerebral vessel occlusion.
▪ You can benefit from this same technology nomatterhow large or small your vessel.
▪ Launching the small glass vessels proved daunting.
▪ A small vessel containing mercury is added from which extend two hollow copper wires.
▪ Some clubs allow members to use smaller vessels for free.
▪ The report identified 67 vessels based in the port, although these were much smaller than the vessels of the early 1970s.
▪ Really, I think I should have strangled the man if forced to endure his companionship aboard a small vessel!
visible
▪ The heater probe reached a visible vessel in 90% of the patients.
▪ Our definition of visible vessel is widely accepted.
▪ The endoscopic concept of visible vessel includes several stages of the same lesion and even various types of lesions.
▪ The approach to the visible vessel was difficult in 10 patients.
■ NOUN
blood
▪ Relaxed tissues and blood vessels - varicose veins, piles etc. with burning in varicose veins.
▪ Just as in a bruise under the skin, a blood vessel in the brain can leak.
▪ Vasomax is an oral version of a current injection drug that dilates penile blood vessels.
▪ One-quarter of this extracellular fluid is contained within blood vessels as the plasma space.
▪ He was well beaten and in a later race broke a blood vessel.
▪ If the plaque blocks a blood vessel, a heart attack or stroke can occur.
▪ A Flight Lieutenant underwent surgery to repair a broken blood vessel in the brain.
▪ They gasped for breath, struggled against debilitating weakness, and when the blood vessels around their brains ruptured, they died.
cargo
▪ Since the sacrifice of a single one of these cargo vessels caused terrible losses, merchants yearned to avoid the inevitable.
▪ No warships were present, but considerable damage was inflicted on cargo vessels, with which the harbor was jammed.
glass
▪ Two other women lay upon the counter a pickle-bottle and a glass vessel of a kind which altogether defies description.
▪ Launching the small glass vessels proved daunting.
▪ The receptacles in Agricola's description may however simply be to make it easier to remove the batches of cool glass vessels.
merchant
▪ When required for use in war, large numbers of merchant vessels were impressed adhoc.
▪ Boarding and rummage of a merchant vessel presents no particular problem to us.
▪ Typically, the arming of a merchant vessel involved mounting eight six-inch guns on the ship.
pressure
▪ Accurate, up-to-date records must be kept of tests on all lifting equipment and pressure vessels.
▪ We even got invited to see inside the pressure vessel.
▪ It is one of four Magnox stations which have suffered problems with the pressure vessels.
■ VERB
build
▪ When he demonstrated the type of wood he will use to build the vessel ... it sank.
operate
▪ The jury cleared him of the charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and operating a vessel while intoxicated.
sail
▪ His smuggling operation employed shipping containers and sailing vessels to move the freight, officials said.
▪ Passengers will sail aboard a 95-foot vessel, which accommodates up to 12 passengers.
▪ Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
▪ To be knocked down by the boom of a sailing vessel was so banal as to be embarrassing.
▪ Rope is the sinew of any sailing vessel.
▪ Helper furnishes a list of floods and another of wrecked ships, subdividing the latter into steamers and sailing vessels.
▪ Small sailing vessels dotted the sheltered waters within sight of the government buildings, riding an a soft southerly breeze.
▪ A fully equipped tipi had almost as many ropes, lines, pegs, and parts as an old-time sailing vessel.
sink
▪ And Hugh's cold blood sank low in its vessels.
▪ Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
▪ One part could fail without sinking the whole vessel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sailing vessel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A knife may be used to trim leather-hard pots of any excess, particularly from wheel-thrown and moulded vessels.
▪ And the Navy wants the vessel cheap -- by Pentagon standards at least.
▪ Some ritual vessels have shields painted on them.
▪ The vessel is about 30 miles off the Baja California coast, in international waters.
▪ Whatever had been on its prow was now gone, sheared off when the sleek vessel had been driven among the trees.
▪ When caffeine blocks these receptors, blood vessels dilate, increasing the filtration rate and producing more urine.
▪ You have more sweat glands and blood vessels per square inch in your scalp than any other part of your body.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vessel

Vessel \Ves"sel\, n. [OF. vessel, veissel, vaissel, vaissiel, F. vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, Vase.]

  1. 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.

    [They drank] out of these noble vessels.
    --Chaucer.

  2. 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.

    [He] began to build a vessel of huge bulk.
    --Milton.

  3. 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.

    He is a chosen vessel unto me.
    --Acts ix. 15.

    [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter.
    --Milton.

  4. (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.

  5. (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (trache[ae]), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.

    Acoustic vessels. See under Acoustic.

    Weaker vessel, a woman; -- now applied humorously. ``Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.''
    --1 Peter iii. 7. ``You are the weaker vessel.''
    --Shak.

Vessel

Vessel \Ves"sel\, v. t. To put into a vessel. [Obs.]
--Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vessel

c.1300, "container," from Old French vessel "container, receptacle, barrel; ship" (12c., Modern French vaisseau) from Late Latin vascellum "small vase or urn," also "a ship," alteration of Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas "vessel." Sense of "ship, boat" is found in English from early 14c. "The association between hollow utensils and boats appears in all languages" [Weekley]. Meaning "canal or duct of the body" (especially for carrying blood) is attested from late 14c.

Wiktionary
vessel

n. (context nautical English) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat. vb. (context obsolete transitive English) To put into a vessel.

WordNet
vessel
  1. n. a tube in which a body fluid circulates [syn: vas]

  2. a craft designed for water transportation [syn: watercraft]

  3. an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

Wikipedia
Vessel

Vessel or vessels may refer to:

Vessel (comics)

Vessel is a fictional villain created by Marvel Comics for their team called Gene Nation. His first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men #323. He is one of the few members to remain in all three incarnations of the team.

Vessel (DVD)

Vessel is the first live long-form video by Icelandic musician Björk, directed by Stéphane Sednaoui and produced by Elektra Entertainment. It was released in VHS on 5 September 1994, by One Little Indian, with a DVD reissue taking place on 13 May 2003. The release documents a concert by the artist during the 1994 tour held in support of her studio album Debut (1993). It contains ten songs from the album, in addition to a B-side; an interview with Björk is interspersed throughout the setlist. Vessel was subject to mixed reviews from music critics, who had polarizing opinions on both the performances and Sednaoui's editing.

Vessel (video game)

Vessel is a physics-based, steampunk puzzle- platform video game, developed by Strange Loop Games and published by indiePub. It was released March 1, 2012 for Microsoft Windows, for Linux on December 10, 2012 and for PlayStation 3 on March 11, 2014. A Mac OS X version is in development.

Vessel (Twenty One Pilots album)

Vessel is the third album released by the American musical duo Twenty One Pilots, which was released on January 8, 2013. It is the band's first studio album released via Fueled by Ramen, and their major-label debut album.

Vessel (film)

Vessel is a 2014 multi-national documentary film written and directed by Diana Whitten as her debut film, focusing on the work of Women on Waves, a Dutch pro-choice organization founded by the Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts in 1999. The film's world premiere took place at SXSW in Texas on March 9, 2014. The film will be distributed by Filmbuff in early 2015.

Vessel (website)

Vessel is a subscription video service launched in 2015 by the early team behind Hulu, including former CEO Jason Kilar and Richard Tom.

Usage examples of "vessel".

Every man aboard knew that their vessel was a fine sailer on a bowline.

On top of that, every vessel he took had a quantity of money aboard, the funds necessary to purchase fresh stores and to pay for emergency repairs.

Rel is navigable for sizeable vessels as far as Abray and barges could penetrate even further, virtually to Dalasor.

Not only was it exceptionally lofty, and on one flank of that series of bluffs which has before been mentioned as constituting the line upon which the Confederate grip of the stream was based, but the tortuous character of the channel gave particular facilities for an enfilading fire on vessels both before and after they came abreast the works.

To support these and concentrate from the earliest moment as effective a fire as possible upon the works, Farragut brought his ironclads inside of the wooden vessels, and abreast the four leaders of that column.

That was a minor vessel, readily expendable, though formidable enough, a hundred-meter spheroid abristle with guns, missile launchers, energy projectors.

It was time well spent, for they located a number of vessels in the port, with their names and destinations, and gave him chapter and verse of the hunt for the absconders from Port Arthur, which had apparently been going on for most of the day.

The missiles, like the pinnaces, could be recovered after the completion of their mission, or diverted to other targets, like the merchant vessels that were accelerating madly in an effort to clear the system before Chenforce destroyed them.

Lowbacca warned that the corvettes coming from Myrkr were accelerating and spreading out, and the half-dozen vessels they had been following were turning toward the cruiser.

Congress States were entitled to enact legislation adapted to the local needs of interstate and foreign commerce, that a pilotage law was of this description, and was, accordingly, constitutionally applicable until Congress acted to the contrary to vessels engaged in the coasting trade.

Darryl Adin and his people had fine warp-capacity vessels, the epitome of private spacecraft technology, but their engines could not produce enough power to break free of the gravitational surges that barely affected a Galaxy-class starship.

United States, might not, without any special authority for that purpose, in the then existing state of things, have empowered the officers commanding the armed vessels of the United States, to seize and send into port for adjudication, American vessels which were forfeited by being engaged in this illicit commerce.

Boil the whole again in a covered vessel, and stir the fluid well to effect the complete solution and admixture of the gum arabic.

Purple Rocks, taking the bodies back to the coast in Ruathen barrels, putting them on a caravel set adrift in the known path of the Waterdhavian hunting vessel.

He waved a pulse cartridge rifle unsteadily with one hand, shooting again and again, but three armored cymeks pounced upon him from their own aerofoil vessels.