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Vessel vs Loutrophoros - What's the difference?

vessel | loutrophoros |

As nouns the difference between vessel and loutrophoros

is that vessel is (nautical) any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat while loutrophoros is an ancient greek pottery vessel with elongated neck and two handles, used to hold water during marriage and funeral rituals.

As a verb vessel

is (obsolete|transitive) to put into a vessel.

vessel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
  • * 1719 ,
    • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=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.}}
  • A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
  • A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
  • * Bible, Acts ix. 15
    • He is a chosen vessel unto me.
  • * Milton
    • [The serpent] fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.
  • * Dolly Parton, The Seeker lyrics:
    • I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.
  • (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
    • Blood or lymph vessels''' in humans, xylem or phloem '''vessels in plants .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * broken vessel * empty vessels make the most sound * lightvessel * microvessel * pressure vessel * reaction vessel * unvessel * weaker vessel

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To put into a vessel.
    • (Francis Bacon)

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    loutrophoros

    English

    (wikipedia loutrophoros)

    Noun

    (loutrophoroi)
  • An Ancient Greek pottery vessel with elongated neck and two handles, used to hold water during marriage and funeral rituals.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 27, author=Elisabetta Povoledo, title=Princeton to Return Disputed Art to Italy, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The psykter, attributed to the so-called Kleophrades Painter, and the loutrophoros , attributed to the legendary Darius Painter, will remain at the museum for four years as part of a research program in which both the Italian government and the museum will take part, the university said. }}