Definition of "vessel" in 英语

noun

1. A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.

2. (uncountable, obsolete or dialectal) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.

3. A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.

4. (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

   • A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.

5. (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

   • Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.

verb

1. (transitive) To put into a vessel.

   • 1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,” Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed.
   • 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie, London: W. Lee, Cent. VI, section 529, p. 137, The fourth Rule ſhall be, to marke what Herbs, ſome Earths doe put fourth of themſelves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſell it; And in that to ſet the Seed you would change […]
   • [Samuel 'Sam' Oliver:] Alright (or: All right), so the Devil didn't say that the winner was the one who vesseled (or: vesselled) him, just the one who sends him back to hell.