VESSELとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English vessel, vessell, from Old French vaissel (compare modern French vaisseau), from Latin vāscellum, diminutive of vāsculum, diminutive of vās (“vessel”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛs.əl/, /ˈvɛs.l̩/
• 韻: -ɛsəl

名詞

vessel (複数形 vessels)

1. (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat. [From c.1300]
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     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.

   • 2012 March 1, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 87:

     Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

2. A craft designed for transportation through air or space. [From 1915]
3. (uncountable, obsolete or dialectal) Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals. [c.1300–c.1600]
   • 1523, John Bourchier, tr. Jean Froissart, Here begynneth the first volum of sir Iohan Froyssart : of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flauders: and other places adioynynge.:

     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. [From c.1300]
5. A person as a container of qualities or feelings. [From 1382]
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts ix:15:

     He is a chosen vessel unto me.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.

   • 1975, Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:

     I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.

6. (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant. [From 1398]

   Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:vessel

派生語