vessels
船只,船隻
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- : 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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Still, the security on the vessels—big or small—is nonexistent.
One hundred thirty-eight major warships with 221 smaller combat vessels would support them in the assault.
It has a third of the budget and a fraction of the maritime vessels.
During the time of the pharaohs, such funerary vessels were used to store the organs of the deceased.
Frontex Plus has no actual vessels, and virtually no budget.
They did not arrive in time, so that some of the vessels had sailed, three of which were captured by the enemy.
The vessel escaped miraculously, with sails torn by shots from three Dutch vessels, which they took for one of their own.
Gourges fitted out three vessels and 150 soldiers at his own expense to revenge their death, and repair the honor of his nation.
The treasure taken on board these vessels was afterwards conveyed to the bank of England in 20 wagons.
Normally, coagulation takes place in two to eight minutes after the blood leaves the vessels.