VESSEL Synonyms

• a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids

• the quantity that a basin will hold

• a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it

• the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

• a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face

• a small vessel for travel on water

• a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce

• ride in a boat on water

• a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped

• the quantity contained in a bottle

• a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children

• store (liquids or gases) in bottles

• put into bottles

• someone whose employment involves carrying something

• a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something

• a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings

• an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction

• a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

• a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal

• a man who delivers the mail

• a boy who delivers newspapers

• (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

• a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like

• (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring

• the quantity a cask will hold

• a cylindrical container that holds liquids

• any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)

• document effecting a property transfer

• the transmission of information

• something that serves as a means of transportation

• act of transferring property title from one person to another

• the act of moving something from one location to another

• the skilled practice of a practical occupation

• a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

• people who perform a particular kind of skilled work

• skill in an occupation or trade

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• make by hand and with much skill

• a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle

• the quantity a cup will hold

• any cup-shaped concavity

• a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces

• cup-shaped plant organ

• a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl

• the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green

• a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition

• form into the shape of a cup

• put into a cup

• treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

• a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food

• a particular item of prepared food

• the quantity that a dish will hold

• a very attractive or seductive looking woman

• directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation

• an activity that you like or at which you are superior

• provide (usually but not necessarily food)

• make concave; shape like a dish

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam

• a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure

• a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking

• the quantity a glass will hold

• a small refracting telescope

• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

• a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror

• glassware collectively

• furnish with glass

• scan (game in the forest) with binoculars

• enclose with glass

• put in a glass container

• become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance

• a drinking glass with a base and stem

• a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup

• a holding device

• a person who holds something

• the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it

• a cylindrical vessel, typically used for storing food

• the quantity contained in a jar

• a sudden jarring impact

• be incompatible; be or come into conflict

• move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion

• shock physically

• affect in a disagreeable way

• place in a cylindrical vessel

• the quantity that can be held in a mug

• a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• with handle and usually cylindrical

• rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence

• To stare awkwardly

• (baseball) the person who does the pitching

• an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring

• the quantity contained in a pitcher

• (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer

• the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit

• a container that is used to put or keep things in

• enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts

• an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert

• a large or extra supply of something

• lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water

• tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)

• anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies