vessel vs ship
ship vs vesselvessel and ship both are nouns.
vessel is not a verb while ship is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vessel | Yes | No | No | No |
| ship | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
ship is a hyponym of
vessel; that is, ship is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
vessel:
- vessel: a craft designed for water transportation
- ship: a vessel that carries passengers or freight
Other hyponyms of vessel include
bareboat, boat, fishing boat, fishing smack, fishing vessel, galley, galley, ice yacht, iceboat, scooter, patrol boat, patrol ship, sailing ship, sailing vessel, shrimper, weather ship, racing yacht, yacht.
| vessel (noun) | ship (noun) |
|---|---|
| a craft designed for water transportation | a vessel that carries passengers or freight |
| an object used as a container (especially for liquids) | |
| a tube in which a body fluid circulates |
| vessel (verb) | ship (verb) |
|---|---|
| place on board a ship | |
| transport commercially | |
| go on board | |
| travel by ship | |
| hire for work on a ship |
Words related to "vessel"
- Merrimac
- Monitor
- USS Merrimack
- USS Monitor
- anchor
- autoclave
- bareboat
- barrel
- base
- basin
- bath
- bathing tub
- bathtub
- bedpan
- bilge
- bilge keel
- blood vessel
- boat
- boiler
- bone-ash cup
- bottle
- bow
- bowl
- brim
- bucket
- butter churn
- cask
- censer
- churn
- clench
- clinch
- container
- craft
- crucible
- cupel
- drinking vessel
- drum
- ewer
- eye cup
- eyebath
- eyecup
- feeding bottle
- fishing boat
- fishing smack
- fishing vessel
- flagon
- fore
- galley
- ground tackle
- hull
- ice yacht
- iceboat
- jar
- ladle
- lip
- melting pot
- metal drum
- monstrance
- mortar
- muller
- nursing bottle
- ostensorium
- pail
- patrol boat
- patrol ship
- pitcher
- poacher
- pot
- prow
- racing yacht
- refractory pot
- retort
- rim
- rudder
- sailing ship
- sailing vessel
- scooter
- ship
- shrimper
- splashboard
- steam boiler
- steeper
- stem
- steriliser
- sterilizer
- storage tank
- strake
- tank
- thurible
- tin
- tub
- tube
- tube-shaped structure
- urceole
- vas
- vascular system
- vat
- wale
- washboard
- washpot
- water jacket
- watercraft
- weather ship
- well
- yacht
Words related to "ship"
- Bounty
- H.M.S. Bounty
- HMS Bounty
- Mayflower
- abandoned ship
- after part
- astern
- auxiliary boiler
- auxiliary engine
- barge
- bay
- beam
- belaying pin
- bilge pump
- bilge well
- bitt
- blockade-runner
- board
- bollard
- brig
- broken-backed
- bulkhead
- bulwark
- caboose
- cargo area
- cargo deck
- cargo hold
- cargo ship
- cargo vessel
- carvel-built
- clincher-built
- clinker-built
- combat ship
- cookhouse
- crow's nest
- davit
- deck
- derelict
- despatch
- destabilization
- dispatch
- displace
- donkey boiler
- donkey engine
- drift
- drogue
- embark
- embrasure
- emplane
- employ
- engage
- engine room
- engineering
- enplane
- fin
- flagship
- fleet
- fo'c'sle
- forecastle
- forward
- foundering
- frame
- funnel
- galley
- gas-turbine ship
- get on
- going under
- gyrostabiliser
- gyrostabilizer
- harborage
- harbourage
- helm
- hire
- hogged
- hold
- hospital ship
- hulk
- iceboat
- icebreaker
- journey
- lap-strake
- lap-straked
- lap-streak
- lap-streaked
- lay
- leeway
- lightship
- log
- longship
- lubber's hole
- lurch
- magnetic mine
- mainsheet
- messmate
- minelayer
- minesweeper
- move
- nuclear-powered ship
- passenger ship
- pirate
- pirate ship
- pitch
- pitching
- place
- planking
- poop
- port
- porthole
- pose
- position
- put
- quarter
- railroad
- ratlin
- ratline
- reship
- ridge rope
- riding bitt
- school ship
- screw
- screw propeller
- sea anchor
- send
- send off
- send on
- set
- sheet
- ship's galley
- shipment
- shipper
- shipping
- shipwreck
- shroud
- sick berth
- sickbay
- sister ship
- skeletal frame
- skeleton
- slave ship
- small ship
- spar
- steamer
- steamship
- stern
- storage area
- superstructure
- supply ship
- tack
- tail
- tender
- three-decker
- top
- topside
- training ship
- transport
- transport ship
- travel
- treasure ship
- trim
- troopship
- underframe
- vessel
- war vessel
- warship
- watercraft
- weather sheet
- whaler
- whaling ship
- winch
- windlass
- wreck
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