vessel

Substantiv

1. 1

   A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space. Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.

   But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.

   Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.

   He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.

   Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

2. 2

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

   Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.

3. 3

   veraltetDishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.

   All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.

4. 4

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

5. 5

   übertragenA person as a container of qualities or feelings.

   A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.

   But the Lord said vnto him, Goe thy way: for hee is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel.

   [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.

   I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way

6. 6

   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. 1

   To put into a vessel.

   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 […]

   Man had at the firſt, and ſo have all ſouls before their entrance into the body, an explicite methodicall knowledge, but they are no ſooner veſſel’d, but that liberty is loſt, and nothing remains but a vaſt confuſed notion of the creature […]

   [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.

Formen

Plural

vessels

Präteritum

vesseled, vesselled

Partizip II

vesseled, vesselled

Partizip I

vesseling, vesselling

3. Person Singular

vessels