Words / B2

VESL/ˈvesl/

A vessel is a ship or large boat, a tube in the body, or a container for liquid: cargo vessels; blood vessels. Ship is the everyday sea word; boat is smaller. The case study mapped cargo vessels. Mix-up: vassal is a feudal tenant (history). Do not call a dinghy a vessel in a biology paper.

Meaning

A ship or large boat; also a tube in the body, or a container for liquid.

Examples

• “The geography case study mapped cargo vessels in the Channel.”
• “Label the blood vessel on the diagram, which is the biology sense.”

Good to know

a cargo / naval vessel; a blood vessel; a laboratory vessel. Everyday (sea): ship. Trap: vassal. Geography, biology, and chemistry. Ship, tube, or pot — specify.

Near in meaning

ship

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