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vessel

/ves-uhl/US // ˈvɛs əl //UK // (ˈvɛsəl) //

容器,船舶,舰船,舰艇

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.
    • : an airship.
    • : a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.
    • : Anatomy, Zoology. a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.
    • : Botany. a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients.Compare tracheid.
    • : a person regarded as a holder or receiver of something, especially something nonmaterial: a vessel of grace; a vessel of wrath.

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Examples

  • The best vessel for taking a salad to go is a mason jar, says Cavuto.

  • The only gene-edited specimens would be the surrogate sires, which act like vessels in which the elite sperm travel.

  • Then they connected each lung to a large vein in the neck of a live pig, so that its blood flowed through the vessels.

  • The XENON1T detector, located deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, searched for interactions of dark matter particles within a large vessel filled with liquid xenon, running from 2016 to 2018.

  • Studies have shown that the coronavirus can infect pericytes, cells that wrap around blood vessels and help control flow.

  • In CDC-speak, the problem is filed under the vessel sanitation program (VSP).

  • It turns out that a rising tide lifts all boats, including the rather leaky vessel carrying Kansas Republicans.

  • The tests in the study assumed that the ship would displace about 9690-tons; the Zumwalt is a 15,500-ton vessel.

  • Local mechanics pitched in to help mend the craft, but weeks into setting off the repairs wore thin and the vessel sprung a leak.

  • Within a matter of hours, the vessel that Mooney had crafted began to sink.

  • This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.

  • The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.

  • The vessel escaped miraculously, with sails torn by shots from three Dutch vessels, which they took for one of their own.

  • At one fell swoop on the field of Jena, the famed military monarchy of the great Frederick fell in pieces like a potter's vessel.

  • The American losses were seven men wounded, none killed, and only slight damage to one vessel.