You can picture vessel as a hollow thing made to hold something — a bowl, cup or pot with liquid inside. Even though 'ship' is the most common use today, the container is the original picture the others grow from.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'vas' (container), via its diminutive 'vascellum' and Old French 'vaissel'; the 'ship' and 'blood vessel' senses are later extensions of that one 'holding container' picture.
來自拉丁文 vas（容器），經由小稱形 vascellum、古法文 vaissel 進入英文——所以這個字的根本畫面比較像「盛裝的容器」。船的意思是傳入英文的路上才加上的，血管（身體裡的管道）則在十四世紀晚期出現，都是同一個「中空能盛裝」核心的延伸。
etymonline.com/word/vessel (Latin vas → vascellum → Old French vaissel; 'ship' sense acquired en route, anatomical sense from late 14c.)
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原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vesselnoun/ˈvɛsəl/
- 1
nauticaltransportA craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
- But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
- Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.
- 2
A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
- Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.
- 3
obsoletedialectalDishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
- All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.
- 4
A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- 5
A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.
- But the Lord said vnto him, Goe thy way: for hee is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel.
- 6
biologynatural-sciencesA tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.
vesselverb/ˈvɛsəl/
- 1
To put into a vessel.
- 1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,” Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed.
- 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie, London: W. Lee, Cent. VI, section 529, p. 137, The fourth Rule ſhall be, to marke what Herbs, ſome Earths doe put fourth of themſelves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſell it; And in that to ſet the Seed you would change […]
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