Have you ever tried coming up the side of a large vessel from a much smaller one? Gaga called into KIIS FM's On Air with Ryan Seacrest today and laid one heckuva revelation on us: She spent 72 hours in her egg, which she calls a " vessel," prior to bursting out at the Grammys.Īlso, HNA's shipping unit Grand China Logistics has come under fire recently for delaying or avoiding payments on long-term vessel charters. Her Majesty's Ship Majestic Keeping Watch over the Steam-Rams in the Mersey. Such a vessel is our Huntress, built at your Cousin Martin's instigation and launched at the moment when our fortunes were at their lowest ebb.Īt each end of the vessel is a raised deck, forming tolerably commodious quarters for officers and men and the forecastle is made to carry one or two heavy guns. In "Container Ship," the title vessel drifts out of the mist: "I wonder if it has a dance band," Mr. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War It may be necessary to explain to the uninitiated reader that the terms "he" and "she" are indifferently used at sea, in reference to craft, but when the masculine pronoun is applied it is understood to refer more especially to the _commanding officer_ of the vessel while the pronoun "she" refers to the _vessel herself_.
noun a tube in which a body fluid circulates.noun an object used as a container (especially for liquids).noun a craft designed for water transportation.verb obsolete, transitive To put into a vessel.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun biology A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.noun A person as a container of qualities or feelings.noun A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.noun nautical A general term for all kinds of craft designed for transportation on water, such as ships or boats.noun a woman - now applied humorously.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun (Bot.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheæ), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes a duct.noun (Anat.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.(Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use. noun Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something esp.noun 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.noun 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.transitive verb obsolete To put into a vessel.noun Figuratively, something conceived as formed to receive or contain hence, especially in Scriptural phraseology, a person into whom anything is conceived as poured or infused, or to whom something has been imparted a recipient.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun In botany, same as duct-that is, a row of cells which have lost their intervening partitions, and consequently form a long continuous canal.
A part or organ pervaded or well provided with vessels is said to be vascular. noun In anatomy and zoology, any duct or canal in which a fluid, as blood or lymph, is secreted, contained, or conveyed, as an artery, vein, capillary, lymphatic, or spermatic especially, a blood-vessel.noun A ship a craft of any kind: usually a larger craft than a boat, but in law often construed to mean any floating structure.noun Specifically, In metallurgy, the converter in which Bessemer steel is made.noun A utensil for holding liquors and other things, as a cask, a barrel, a bottle, a kettle, a pot, a cup, or a dish.noun A person seen as the agent or embodiment, as of a quality.Vessels are found in nearly all flowering plants.