vessel

Definitions of vessel

n an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

Examples:: Marineland
a commercial aquarium featuring trained dolphins

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a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments; barrel, cask
a cylindrical container that holds liquids; basin
a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; bath
a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it); bath, bathing tub, bathtub, tub
a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body; bedpan
a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination; boiler, steam boiler
sealed vessel where water is converted to steam; bone-ash cup, cupel, refractory pot
a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead; bottle
a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped; bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle
a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children; bowl
a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;; bucket, pail
a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top; censer, thurible
a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual); butter churn, churn
a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk; crucible, melting pot
a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions; drinking vessel
a vessel intended for drinking; drum, metal drum
a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids; eye cup, eyebath, eyecup
a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball; flagon
a large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout; used to hold alcoholic beverages (usually wine); jar
a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles; ladle
a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another; monstrance, ostensorium
(Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration; mortar
a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle; muller
a vessel in which wine is mulled; ewer, pitcher
an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring; poacher
a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs); pot
metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid; retort
a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat; steeper
a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping; storage tank, tank
a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids; tin
a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking; tub, vat
a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids; urceole
a vessel that holds water for washing the hands; water jacket
a container filled with water that surrounds a machine to cool it; especially that surrounding the cylinder block of an engine; well
a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid; alembic
an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube; amphora
an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine; aquarium, fish tank, marine museum
a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals; aspersorium
the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches; auxiliary boiler, donkey boiler
(nautical) an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port); baptismal font, baptistery, baptistry, font
bowl for baptismal water; beaker
a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry; beer barrel, beer keg
a barrel that holds beer; beer bottle
a bottle that holds beer; bidet
a basin for washing genitals and anal area; birdbath
an ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in; butt
a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons); caldron, cauldron
a very large pot that is used for boiling; cannikin
a wooden bucket; canopic jar, canopic vase
a jar used in ancient Egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed body; carafe, decanter
a bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water; carboy
a large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container; catsup bottle, ketchup bottle
a bottle that holds catsup; cistern, water tank
a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet; coffeepot
tall pot in which coffee is brewed; cookie jar, cooky jar
a jar in which cookies are kept (and sometimes money is hidden); cream pitcher, creamer
a small pitcher for serving cream; crock, earthenware jar
an earthen jar (made of baked clay); crewet, cruet
bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table; cruse
small jar; holds liquid (oil or water); demijohn
large bottle with a short narrow neck; often has small handles at neck and is enclosed in wickerwork; digester
autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested; dinner bucket, dinner pail
a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner; dipper
a ladle that has a cup with a long handle; dixie
a large metal pot (12 gallon camp kettle) for cooking; used in military camps; dredging bucket
a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed; Dutch oven
iron or earthenware cooking pot; used for stews; emesis basin
a basin used by bedridden patients for vomiting; fish bowl, fishbowl, goldfish bowl
a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept; flask
bottle that has a narrow neck; footbath
a small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet; gas holder, gasometer
a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel; gas tank, gasoline tank, petrol tank
a tank for holding gasoline to supply a vehicle; calabash, gourd
bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd; hogshead
a large cask especially one holding 63 gals; hot tub
a very large tub (large enough for more than one bather) filled with hot water; ink bottle, inkpot
a bottle of ink; inkstand, inkwell
a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped; jamjar, jampot
a jar for holding jellies or preserves; jorum
a large drinking bowl; jug
a large bottle with a narrow mouth; keg
small cask or barrel; boiler, kettle
a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid; kibble
an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining; laver
(Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions; loving cup
a large drinking vessel (usually with two handles) that people drink out of in turn at a banquet; marmite
a large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup; Mason jar
a glass jar with an air-tight screw top; used in home canning; mazer
a large hardwood drinking bowl; mug
with handle and usually cylindrical; ampoule, ampul, ampule, phial, vial
a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle); pickle barrel
a barrel holding vinegar in which cucumbers are pickled; pill bottle
a small bottle for holding pills; pop bottle, soda bottle
a bottle for holding soft drinks; pottle
a pot that holds 2 quarts; pressure cooker
autoclave for cooking at temperatures above the boiling point of water; reservoir
tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil); saucepot
a cooking pot that has handles on either side and tight fitting lid; used for stewing or boiling; scoop
a large ladle; septic tank
large tank where solid matter or sewage is disintegrated by bacteria; shook
a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment; hip bath, sitz bath
a bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position; slop jar, slop pail
a large pail used to receive waste water from a washbasin or chamber pot; smelling bottle
a bottle containing smelling salts; soup ladle
a ladle for serving soup; specimen bottle
a bottle for holding urine specimens; stockpot
a pot used for preparing soup stock; stoop, stoup
basin for holy water; stoup
an archaic drinking vessel; tankard
large drinking vessel with one handle; teapot
pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle; toilet bowl
the bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water; tun
a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals; urn
a large pot for making coffee or tea; vase
an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers; handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl
a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression); washtub
a tub in which clothes or linens can be washed; water bottle
a bottle for holding water; hot-water heater, hot-water tank, water heater
a heater and storage tank to supply heated water; whiskey bottle
a bottle for holding whiskey; wine bottle
a bottle for holding wine; wine bucket, wine cooler
a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine; wine barrel, wine cask
a barrel that holds wine

Type of:: container
any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

n a tube in which a body fluid circulates

Synonyms:: vas

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a vessel in which blood circulates; arteria, arterial blood vessel, artery
a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body; ductus arteriosus
a blood vessel in a fetus that bypasses pulmonary circulation by connecting the pulmonary artery directly to the ascending aorta; normally closes at birth; vasa vasorum
any small blood vessel ramifying on the outside of a major artery or vein; vein, vena, venous blood vessel
a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; capillary, capillary vessel
any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules

Type of:: tube, tube-shaped structure
(anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

n a craft designed for water transportation

Synonyms:: watercraft

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an ironclad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North; Monitor
an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac; H.M.S. Bounty
a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutinied against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat; Mayflower
the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620; USS Cole
a United States destroyer; Old Ironsides
a United States 44-gun frigate that was one of the first three naval ships built by the United States; it won brilliant victories over British frigates during the War of 1812 and is without doubt the most famous ship in the history of the United States Navy; it has been rebuilt and is anchored in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston

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a vessel (such as a yacht) that can be chartered without a captain or crew or provisions; boat
a small vessel for travel on water; fishing boat, fishing smack, fishing vessel
a vessel for fishing; often has a well to keep the catch alive; galley
(classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars; galley
a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading; ice yacht, iceboat, scooter
a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice; patrol boat, patrol ship
a vessel assigned to patrol an area; sailing ship, sailing vessel
a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts; ship
a vessel that carries passengers or freight; shrimper
a vessel engaged in shrimping; weather ship
an oceangoing vessel equipped to make meteorological observations; racing yacht, yacht
an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing; abandoned ship, derelict
a ship abandoned on the high seas; ark
a boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood; barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter
a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals); bark, barque
a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts; blockade-runner
a ship that runs through or around a naval blockade; brig
two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts; brigantine, hermaphrodite brig
two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast; bumboat
a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor; canal boat, narrow boat, narrowboat
a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals; cargo ship, cargo vessel
a ship designed to carry cargo; clipper, clipper ship
a fast sailing ship used in former times; cutter
a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop; dhow
a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs; felucca
a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean; ferry, ferryboat
a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule; fireboat
a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront; flagship
the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag; fore-and-after
sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig; galleon
a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries; gas-turbine ship
a ship powered by a gas turbine; gondola
long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice; guard boat
a boat that is on guard duty (as in a harbor) around a fleet of warships; gunboat
a small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols; hospital ship
a ship built to serve as a hospital; used for wounded in wartime; hulk
a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned; iceboat, icebreaker
a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation; Indiaman
a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India; junk
any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails; ketch
a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost; lightship
a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable; longboat
the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel; lugger
small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails; Mackinaw boat, mackinaw
a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes; mail boat, mailboat, packet, packet boat
a boat for carrying mail; minelayer
ship equipped for laying marine mines; minesweeper
ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines; motorboat, powerboat
a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine; nuclear-powered ship
ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor; passenger ship
a ship built to carry passengers; pilot boat
a boat to carry pilots to and from large ships; pirate, pirate ship
a ship that is manned by pirates; police boat
a boat used by harbor police; punt
an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole; rigger
a sailing vessel with a specified rig; river boat
a boat used on rivers or to ply a river; sailboat, sailing boat
a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast; school ship, training ship
a ship used to train students as sailors; schooner
sailing vessel used in former times; scow
any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends; sea boat
a boat that is seaworthy; that is adapted to the open seas; shipwreck
a wrecked ship (or a part of one); sister ship
a ship that is one of two or more similar ships built at the same time; slave ship
a ship used to transport slaves from their homes to places of bondage; sloop
a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow; smack
a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast; small boat
a boat that is small; small ship
a ship that is small; square-rigger
a square-rigged sailing ship; steamboat
a boat propelled by a steam engine; steamer, steamship
a ship powered by one or more steam engines; surfboat
a boat that can be launched or landed in heavy surf; supply ship, tender
ship that usually provides supplies to other ships; cutter, pinnace, ship's boat, tender
a boat for communication between ship and shore; three-decker
any ship having three decks; transport ship
a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment; dragger, trawler
a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish; treasure ship
a 16th-century ship loaded with treasure; trireme
ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side; troopship
ship for transporting troops; towboat, tower, tug, tugboat
a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships; combat ship, war vessel, warship
a government ship that is available for waging war; whaler, whaling ship
a ship engaged in whale fishing; windjammer
a large sailing ship; wreck
a ship that has been destroyed at sea; dandy, yawl
a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost

Type of:: craft
a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

n an object used as a container (especially for liquids)

n a tube in which a body fluid circulates

n a craft designed for water transportation

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