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.
A few vessels show men engaged in different activities.
Technical inefficiency is the deviation of an individual vessel's production from this best-practice frontier, and hence is a measure of relative technical efficiency.
Buybacks also tend, in practice, to remove the largely inactive vessels that hold licences.
Also, when certain fishing vessels are decommissioned, fishers may lose money that is invested in fishing gears as sunk costs.
When fishing is profitable, firms spend more time fishing or bring in more vessels in the following year.
The large numbers of small-scale fishers are generally confined to inshore operations by their small vessels, low engine power, and traditional fishing gear.
The cleaned sand was then autoclaved in a 4 cm pan for 30 min and used to fill the microcosm culture vessels after drying.
Moreover, seven such vessels were found in the vicinity of the building.
