1 a curved container that is used to hold liquid:
The remains of some Roman earthenware vessels were found during the dig.
2 a person who has a particular quality or who is used for a particular purpose:
3 a tube that carries liquids such as blood through the body:
A scattering of vessels anchored in the harbor.
The 169,000-ton vessel went down during a typhoon in the South China Sea.
The company has five oceangoing vessels.
Blood vessels cover all but the midventral part of the yolk.
However, many local shipping services also operated with vessels of 50 (or 75) tons and over.
Furthermore, there is considerable variability in the phenotype of vessels in tumors expressing different isoforms.