vessel

n.

1. A hollow utensil, such as a cup, vase, or pitcher, used as a container, especially for liquids.
2. 1. Nautical. A craft, especially one larger than a rowboat, designed to navigate on water.
   2. An airship.
3. Anatomy. A duct, canal, or other tube that contains or conveys a body fluid: a blood vessel.
4. Botany. One of the tubular conductive structures of xylem, consisting of dead cylindrical cells that are attached end to end and connected by perforations. They are found in nearly all flowering plants.
5. A person seen as the agent or embodiment, as of a quality: a vessel of mercy.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin vāscellum, diminutive of Latin vāsculum, diminutive of vās, vessel.]

n

An avenue through which something can travel.

n. a ship or large boat.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

Any channel for carrying a fluid, such as blood or lymph. See also vas.

• absorbent v's — lymphatic vessels.
• blood v. — any of the vessels conveying the blood; an artery, arteriole, vein, venule or capillary.
• collateral v. — 1. a vessel that parallels another vessel, a nerve, or other structure.
— 2. a vessel important in establishing and maintaining a collateral circulation.
• great v's — the large vessels entering the heart, including the aorta, the pulmonary arteries and veins, and the venae cavae.
• lacteal v's — those that take up chyle from the intestinal wall during digestion.
• lymphatic v's — the capillaries, collecting vessels, and trunks that collect lymph from the tissues and carry it to lymph nodes or the bloodstream.
• nutrient v's — vessels supplying nutritive elements to special tissues, e.g. arteries entering the substance of bone or the walls of large blood vessels.

IN BRIEF: A container. Also: A ship or boat.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. — Plutarch (c.46-c.120).

A vessel in a dream may be the container that holds the dreamer's valuables. The size and the condition of the vessel-e.g., old and tarnished or new and shiny-may indicate if these are established ideals or things or newly acquired. Vessels can also be containers of the self.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fartøj, skib, beholder, kar, blodkar

Nederlands (Dutch)
vaartuig, vat/kruik etc., persoon doordrongen van bepaalde (goede) kwaliteit, (bloed)vat, buis

Français (French)
n. - (Naut, Transp) vaisseau, (Anat) vaisseau, vase, coupe, (fig) instrument

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gefäß, Schiff

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αγγείο, δοχείο, σκεύος, (ναυτ.) πλοίο, σκάφος, (φυσιολ.) αγγείο

Italiano (Italian)
imbarcazione, vaso, vascello

Português (Portuguese)
n. - artéria (f) e veia (f) (Anat.), vaso (m), nave (f) (Náut.), vasilha (f)

Русский (Russian)
сосуд, судно, летательный аппарат

Español (Spanish)
n. - navío, nave, recipiente, vasija

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fartyg, kärl

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
船, 脉管, 容器

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 船, 脈管, 容器

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 용기, (보트보다 큰) 배 , 물관

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 容器, 船, 管

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) اناء, سفينه, وعاء, عرق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כלי, כלי-קיבול, כלי-דם, אוניה, כלי-שייט, ספינה‬

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