Vessel vs Hod - What's the difference?
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(nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.
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A container of liquid, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
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(biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
(obsolete) To put into a vessel.
(lb) To bob up and down on horseback; jog.
A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder.
A receptacle for carrying coal.
walk, gait
pace
Vessel is a related term of hod.
As nouns the difference between vessel and hod
is that vessel is (nautical) any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat while hod is beaver.As a verb vessel
is (obsolete|transitive) to put into a vessel.vessel
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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- He is a chosen vessel unto me.
- [The serpent] fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter.
- I am a vessel that’s empty and useless / I am a bad seed that fell by the way.
- Blood or lymph vessels''' in humans, xylem or phloem '''vessels in plants .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* broken vessel * empty vessels make the most sound * lightvessel * microvessel * pressure vessel * reaction vessel * unvessel * weaker vesselVerb
- (Francis Bacon)
