Meaning & Definition of Vessel in English
English⟶
Vessel
/vɛsəl/
noun
1. A tube in which a body fluid circulates
synonym:
- vessel,
- vas
2. A craft designed for water transportation
synonym:
- vessel,
- watercraft
3. An object used as a container (especially for liquids)
synonym:
- vessel
Examples of using
The world is a sacred vessel that cannot be acted on. Whoever acts on it will ruin it; whoever holds on to it will lose it.
Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.