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Vessel vs Tanka - What's the difference?

vessel | tanka |

As nouns the difference between vessel and tanka

is that vessel is (nautical) any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat while tanka is a member of a group of people in southern china who traditionally live on junks.

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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    tanka

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl) (''ka'' "song") (compare (etyl) ''du?ng? ??).

    Noun

  • a form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5,7,5,7,7 morae

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

  • a strong, forceful expression
  • a Tibetan painting of the Buddha on fabric.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of boat used in Canton, about 25 feet long and often rowed by women.
    • Synonyms
    * tankia

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia.
  • *1994 , Stephen Frederic Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 , p. 29:
  • *:In Uzbek Turan Shah Rukh's tanka remained the standard silver coin and weighed an average of slightly more than 5 g throughout the sixteenth century.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 42:
  • *:The last of the gifts was fifteen horses with velvet and jewelled trappings and one hundred thousand tankas in cash.
  • *2011 , Najaf Haider, in Irfan Habib (Ed.), Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 , Vol. VIII part 1, p. 152:
  • *:A major shift in the usage of silver and billion coinage came about in the second quarter of the fourteenth century when Mu?ammad Tughluq, after striking the ?anka''''' of 169.8 grains in the beginning, replaced it with a coin of lower weight (144 grains) called ''‘adli'', which was then treated as the standard '''''?anka .

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