Definition: 1. A container used for holding liquids, such as a bowl, cup, etc. 2. A large ship or boat. 3. A tube in which a body fluid circulates. 4. A tube that carries blood through the body of a person or an animal, or liquid through the parts of a plant.
Use 'vessel' in a sentence:
1. Don't use cold water as it shocks the blood vessels into closing up.
2. The guts of the reactor have to be hauled out of the pressure vessel.
3. The severe conditions hampered attempts to pull the vessel free of the rig.
4. Despite their size, these vessels carry small crews, usually of around twenty men.
5. From day 23 onward the vessel was in port discharge.
6. Exercise dilates blood vessels on the surface of the brain.
7. It is true that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before, and that, in many cases, being over-weight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease.
8. They said one of their planes spotted the Cubans more than half way through their journey and the coast guards could not believe their eyes when they saw the vessel.
9. The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.
10. An estimated 1600 vessels pass through the strait annually.
11. The French vessel has a commanding lead.
12. At the height of his shipping career he owned about 60 ocean-going vessels.
13. Red wine can help to dilate blood vessels.
14. It whispered to another vessel of clay, like itself, close beside it, "Why have they set me here?"
15. The vessel is expected under favourable conditions to do the journey in 2 hours.
16. In 1838 the first iron sailing vessel crossed the Atlantic.
17. We'll have a reaction vessel that's sealed, it's constant volume.
18. A heat exchanger, in a narrow sense, is a vessel.
19. Silk tubes, made by dipping a wax mold in aqueous silk solution, have a number of tissue engineering applications like blood vessel grafts and nerve guides.
20. Bernal of the University of London, who packed hard spheres into a rubber vessel in such a way as to obtain the maximum possible density.
21. The report says design faults in both the vessels contributed to the tragedy.
22. Severe migraine can be treated with a drug which constricts the blood vessels.
23. Aspirin thins the blood, letting it flow more easily through narrowed blood vessels.
24. A plane with Danish markings was over-flying his vessel.
25. The surface of the brain is pinky-grey and latticed with tiny blood vessels.
26. In each case, says the document, the pirates had full knowledge of the cargo, nationality and course of the vessel.
27. A smaller vessel would have capsized.
28. The Chinese themselves adapted many specific vessel forms from the West, such as bottles with long spouts, and designed a range of decorative patterns especially for the European market.
29. He will break a blood-vessel in one of those fits some day.
30. Ryan was collecting research data while aboard the oceanographic research vessel Glomar Challenger.
31. Shortly after 1400, shipbuilders began developing a new type of vessel properly designed to operate in rough, open water: the caravel.
32. As the lock filled, the ducklings rejoined their mother to wait for another vessel to go through.
33. He chose that finger because it was thought that the blood vessel in that finger went directly to the heart.
34. It's hard to pilot a vessel in rough weather.
35. Heat the vessel and try to blow out the stopper.
36. During 2000, commercial catches of Pacific salmon in Alaska exceeded 320,000 tonnes, with an ex-vessel value of over USD 260 million.
37. Remote-controlled machines smash the sulfide deposits, which are then hoovered up through a riser pipe to a vessel on the surface.
38. a drug that constricts the blood vessels.
39. These algae now release their oil, which floats to the surface of the culture vessel.
40. The vessel yesterday reached anchorage off Dubai.
41. A rope from the second vessel was secured around the shark's tail, but repeated efforts to tow the fish into the water failed.
42. The British navy boarded the vessel and towed it to New York.
43. Officers making a routine inspection of the vessel found fifty kilograms of cocaine.
44. The vessel's safety equipment was not in good order.
45. All vessels were to be built on a cost-plus basis.
46. He makes decorative vessels in copper, stainless steel and silver.
47. After three hours of playing cat and mouse, they threatened to open fire on our vessel, so we stopped.
48. The uterus is supplied with a rich network of blood vessels and nerves.
49. A Philippine Coast Guard spokesman said the ferry had been hit by a 12,000-ton Singapore registered cargo vessel.
50. The vessels will have to land their catch at designated ports.
51. The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.
52. A fishing vessel and a cargo ship collided in rough seas.
53. He loaded his vessel with another cargo and set sail.
54. It occurs because blood flow gets reduced in that blood vessel.
55. More and more frequently the vessel lurched into a sudden roll.
56. The ill fated ship was sent off course into shallow waters and rammed by another vessel.
