the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds
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Cosmetic container (vessel) — Recent historical round type container, North America. A cosmetic container, cosmetic box, or cosmetic vessel is found in the historical records, both as an artifact, as relief items in some cultures, and are sometimes referenced in historical or … Wikipedia
Container ship — Two container ships pass in San Francisco Bay Class overview Name: Container ship Subclasses: (1) Geared or gearless … Wikipedia
container ship — noun a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds • Syn: ↑containership, ↑container vessel • Hypernyms: ↑cargo ship, ↑cargo … Useful english dictionary
Container crane — Container cranes A container crane (also container handling gantry crane, ship to shore crane ) is a design of large dockside gantry cranes found at container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships … Wikipedia
Vessel monitoring system — Vessel monitoring systems (VMS) are used in commercial fishing to allow environmental and fisheries regulatory organizations to monitor, minimally, the position, time at a position, and course and speed of fishing vessels. They are a key part of… … Wikipedia
Vessel — may refer to: * a boat, ship or starship * liquid or food vessel, such as a pitcher, bowl, cup or bottle * other kinds of packaging containers * a tubular structure of vascular tissue in plants such as xylem and phloemVessel may also refer to: *… … Wikipedia
vessel — (n.) c.1300, container, from O.Fr. vessel (Fr. vaisseau) from L. vascellum small vase or urn, also a ship, dim. of vasculum, itself a dim. of vas vessel. Sense of ship, boat is found in English c.1300. The association between hollow utensils and… … Etymology dictionary
vessel — ► NOUN 1) a ship or large boat. 2) a hollow container used to hold liquid. 3) a tube or duct conveying a fluid within an animal body or plant structure. 4) (in or alluding to biblical use) a person regarded as embodying a particular quality:… … English terms dictionary
vessel — [n1] ship barge, bark, bateau, boat, bottom, bucket*, can*, craft, liner, ocean liner, steamer, tanker, tub*; concept 506 vessel [n2] container, bowl basin, kettle, pitcher, pot, receptacle, urn, utensil; concept 494 … New thesaurus
container — [n] holder for physical object alembic, bag, beaker, bin, bottle, bowl, box, bucket, bunker, caisson, can, canister, canteen, capsule, carafe, carton, cask, casket, cauldron, chamber, chest, churn, cistern, cradle, crate, crock, dish, ewer,… … New thesaurus
