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Aeolipyle
noun · 78% connection
An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which stea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Air vessel
unknown · 78% connection
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Bain-marie
noun · 78% connection
A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Balloon
noun · 78% connection
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Barque
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a saili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Beam
noun · 78% connection
The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Cargo
noun · 78% connection
The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Carpellum
noun · 78% connection
A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Cell
noun · 78% connection
A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Charter
noun · 78% connection
The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Con
verb · 78% connection
To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Crew
noun · 78% connection
The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Cruiser
noun · 78% connection
One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Cup
noun · 78% connection
A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Effusion
noun · 78% connection
The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Fender
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
Funnel
verb · 78% connection
A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, dhow.
