Vessel
['ves(ə)l] or ['vɛsl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a craft designed for water transportation.
(noun.) an object used as a container (especially for liquids).
(noun.) a tube in which a body fluid circulates.
约瑟芬校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
(n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.
(n.) Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
(n.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
(n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
(v. t.) To put into a vessel.
整理:理查德
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Utensil (for holding any thing).[2]. Bottom, sailing craft.[3]. Tube, duct, canal.
埃莉诺校對
解釋/意思:
n. a vase or utensil for holding something: a hollow structure made to float on water used for conveyance &c.: a tube in which fluids as blood &c. are contained: a person considered as an agent of God.—The weaker vessel a phrase colloquially applied to a woman in allusion to 1 Pet. iii. 7.
編輯:陌莉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of vessels, denotes labor and activity. See Ships and similar words.
整理:华莱士
例句/造句/用法:
- This, rising above the water, and provided with reflecting lenses, enabled the steersman to discover the surface conditions and see any near vessel or other object. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The Savannah, the first steam vessel to cross the Atlantic, made the trip in 1819 in 26 days. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- We have given an epitome of the development of the submarine vessel up to the opening of the twentieth century. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He knew how near to breaking was the vessel that held his life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The paddles were placed in the middle of the boat, near the stern; and there was a double rudder, connected together by rods which were moved by a winch at the head of the vessel. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- If Napoleon had deemed it best to have continued his journey across the Atlantic to America he would have been compelled to pass several weeks on an uncomfortable sailing vessel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- From this space it reaches the outer air by a valve at the bottom of the outer vessel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- To effect that object, it is necessary to employ a voltaic battery separated from the vessel in which the decomposition takes place. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- A fire extinguisher is a metal case containing a solution of bicarbonate of soda, and a glass vessel full of strong sulphuric acid. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- To England, then, I conveyed her; a fearful voyage I had with such a monster in the vessel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Again, plac e the magnet in a wooden vessel, and then set the vessel afloat in a tub or cistern of still water. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The heat of the sun on the vessel was excessive, the company strangers to me, and not very agreeable. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The first steam war vessel was built in 1814 by Fulton for the defence of New York Harbor, during the then existing war times. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I saw vessels near the shore, and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The transports were all sailing vessels. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- For safety's sake, all oily cloths should be burned or kept in metal vessels. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I flew thither and back, bringing the desired vessels. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There was some delay in getting supplies ashore from vessels at anchor in the open roadstead. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The vessels came in, their officers entirely unconscious that they were falling into the hands of the Union forces. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Vessels of the Monitor type still form useful parts of the United States Navy, in which the Monterey and Monadnock are its most representative types. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Mulhall gives the steam horse power of the world in 1895, not including war vessels, as follows: Stationary. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The watchers upon the larger vessels see to all about them. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The submarine next came into practical view during the American Civil War, when the Confederate government built several such vessels, known usually as Davids from their inventor. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present in the port of London. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The unequalized internal pressure forces the blood to the surface of the body and causes rupture of blood vessels and other physical difficulties. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It is stated, that about the year 1787, experiments were made on the river Hull, by Furnace and Ashton, on the propulsion of vessels by steam power. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
整理:斯图