Vessel vs. Vehicle — What's the Difference?

A ship or large boat.

A vehicle (from Latin: vehiculum) is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses), railed vehicles (trains, trams), watercraft (ships, boats), amphibious vehicles (screw-propelled vehicle, hovercraft), aircraft (airplanes, helicopters) and spacecraft.Land vehicles are classified broadly by what is used to apply steering and drive forces against the ground: wheeled, tracked, railed or skied.

A hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl or cask.

A thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, lorry, or cart

A duct or canal holding or conveying blood or other fluid.

A thing used to express, embody, or fulfil something

A hollow utensil, such as a cup, vase, or pitcher, used as a container, especially for liquids.

A film, television programme, song, etc. that is intended to display the leading performer to the best advantage

(Nautical) A craft, especially one larger than a rowboat, designed to navigate on water.

A privately controlled company through which an individual or organization conducts a particular kind of business, especially investment.

An airship.

A device or structure for transporting persons or things; a conveyance

(Anatomy) A duct, canal, or other tube that contains or conveys a body fluid

A self-propelled conveyance that runs on tires; a motor vehicle.

(Botany) One of the tubular water-conducting structures of xylem, consisting of a series of vessel elements attached end to end and connected by perforations. Vessels are found in nearly all flowering plants.

A medium through which something is transmitted, expressed, or accomplished

A person seen as the agent or embodiment, as of a quality

The concrete or specific word or phrase that is applied to the tenor of a metaphor and gives the metaphor its figurative power, as walking shadow in "Life's but a walking shadow" (Shakespeare).

(nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on water, such as a ship or boat.

A play, role, or piece of music used to display the special talents of one performer or company.

A craft designed for transportation through air or space.

An inactive substance that is combined with an active medication to facilitate administration.

Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.

A substance, such as oil, in which paint pigments are mixed for application.

A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.

A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.

A person as a container of qualities or feelings.

A medium for expression of talent or views.

(biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint.

(transitive) To put into a vessel.

(pharmaceuticals) The main excipient (such as an oil or gel) that conveys the active ingredient of a drug.

A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.

An entity to achieve an end.

A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.

(Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.

Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.

(Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits

Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.

That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.

A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheæ), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.

That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy.

To put into a vessel.

A substance in which medicine is taken.

A tube in which a body fluid circulates

Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it.

A craft designed for water transportation

A liquid used to spread sensitive salts upon glass and paper for use in photography.

An object used as a container (especially for liquids)

A conveyance that transports people or objects

A medium for the expression or achievement of something;

Any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another