Usually means: Container for transporting or holding liquids.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word vessel:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. vessel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vessel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vessel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vessel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vessel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vessel, vessel: Wordnik
  7. vessel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vessel: Wiktionary
  9. vessel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vessel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vessel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vessel: Dictionary.com
  13. vessel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vessel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Vessel (film), The Vessel, Vessel (DVD), Vessel (Frankie Cosmos album), Vessel (Twenty One Pilots album), Vessel (film), Vessel (sculpture), Vessel (solo artist), Vessel (structure), Vessel (video game), Vessel (website), Vessel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vessel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vessel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vessel: Rhymezone
  19. vessel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vessel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vessel: Free Dictionary
  22. vessel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vessel: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. vessel: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. vessel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vessel: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Vessel: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Vessel: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Vessel: Energy Dictionary
  9. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  10. Vessel: Legal dictionary
  11. Vessel: Financial dictionary
  12. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vessel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Vessel: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. vessel: Medical dictionary
  5. Vessel: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. vessel: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vessel, vessel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. vessel: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Vessel: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
▸ noun:  A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, obsolete or dialectal) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
▸ noun:  A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
▸ noun:  A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
▸ noun:  (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put into a vessel.

Similar:
watercraft, vas, Vessell, hull, ship, boat, yacht, supercargo, tanker, warship, more...

Opposite:
land, solid, void, emptiness, containerless

Types:
rowboat, yacht, barge, battleship, submarine, tanker, cruise ship, icebreaker, more...

Phrases:
blood vessel, pressure vessel, sailing vessel, reaction vessel, fishing vessel, more...

Adjectives:
small, large, little, american, blood, single, closed, british, english, cylindrical, naval

Colors:
    teal,     coral,     aquamarine,     turquoise,     sand,     pearl,     maroon,     rust,     copper,     bronze


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Similar:
watercraft, vas, Vessell, hull, ship, boat, yacht, supercargo, tanker, warship, more...

Opposite:
land, solid, void, emptiness, containerless

Types:
rowboat, yacht, barge, battleship, submarine, tanker, cruise ship, icebreaker, more...

Phrases:
blood vessel, pressure vessel, sailing vessel, reaction vessel, fishing vessel, merchant vessel, naval vessel, reactor vessel, cargo vessel, steam vessel, drinking vessel, vessel elements, lymphatic vessel, more...

Adjectives:
small, large, little, american, blood, single, closed, british, english, cylindrical, naval

Colors:
    teal,     coral,     aquamarine,     turquoise,     sand,     pearl,     maroon,     rust,     copper,     bronze



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