Vessel



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Vessel

• n.血管; 容器; 船只
• ［英］ n.血管;容器 ( a container) ; 船只 ( a watercraft)
• ［类］ vessel : blood / pipeline : gas / aqueduct : water ( 血管流血 / 管道流气 / 水管流水)
• ［记］ 注意不要和vassal ( 陪臣, 诸侯) 相混

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin vascellum, diminutive of Latin vas vase, vessel
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. a container (as a cask, bottle, kettle, cup, or bowl) for holding something
  • b. a person into whom some quality (as grace) is infused <a child of light, a true vessel of the Lord — H. J. Laski>
• 2. a watercraft bigger than a rowboat; especially ship 1
• 3.
  • a. a tube or canal (as an artery) in which a body fluid is contained and conveyed or circulated
  • b. a conducting tube in the xylem of a vascular plant formed by the fusion and loss of end walls of a series of cells

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