Vessel - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a craft designed for water transportation (syn: watercraft)
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
Extra examples
...a new ocean liner that claims to be the largest commercial vessel afloat...
...any vessel that is buoyant and steerable can be entered in the annual race down the river...
A bruise forms when a blood vessel breaks under the skin.
He burst a blood vessel.
...a leviathan of the seas, that cruise ship is said to be the largest passenger vessel afloat...
...the historic wooden ship has been fully restored and is once again an operable seafaring vessel...
I become a broken vessel.
In this harbour a vessel can coal.
The motions of the vessel were so fearfully abrupt and violent.
The Spaniards say that the hulling of the vessel was accidental.
The vessel was locked in ice.
The vessel got lost in the open sea.
The vessel had got out of trim.
Huge waves swamped the vessel.
...the dumbstruck ecotourists gaped in silence as the enormous whale breached near their vessel...
Word forms
singular: vessel
plural: vessels
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