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Vessel vs Submarine - What's the difference?

vessel | submarine |

As nouns the difference between vessel and submarine

is that vessel is (nautical) any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat while submarine is a boat that can go underwater.

As verbs the difference between vessel and submarine

is that vessel is (obsolete|transitive) to put into a vessel while submarine is to operate or serve on a.

As an adjective submarine is

undersea.

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)

    References

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    Anagrams

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    submarine

    English

    (wikipedia submarine)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • undersea.
  • Hidden or undisclosed.
    • a submarine patent

    Synonyms

    * subaquatic, subaqueous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A boat that can go underwater.
  • A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
  • (baseball) Pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
  • Any submarine plant or animal.
  • (informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.

    • Synonyms

    * (boat) U-boat * (sandwich) grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy, poor boy, po' boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge

    Antonyms

    * (boat) surface ship

    Related terms

    * submariner

    Verb

    (submarin)
  • To operate or serve on a
  • To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 13, author=The Associated Press, title=Shares Up as Investors Ponder Retail Data, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“We’re really at the point of chicken, where the Fed is trying to ward off inflation without submarining the economy.” }}