noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood vessel (= a tube in your body through which blood flows )
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the blood vessels that lead to the heart
blood vessel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fishing
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A yacht or fishing vessel would find it quite easy to evade our controls and could carry large amounts of contraband.
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Orthodox wooden construction is still being used today for fishing vessels , minesweepers and yachts of up to four or five hundred tons.
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Such a presence must take the form of an onshore administrative unit responsible for the management of the fishing vessel concerned.
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One night she had boarded a small fishing vessel moored at a small port near Yalta.
large
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This imposed an extra constraint on the larger vessels .
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Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
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They were definitely photographs of some very old and very large vessel half submerged in a glacier.
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Place in a large vessel and cover with cold water.
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There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel .
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The large fishing vessels we saw were all well maintained with modern equipment.
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Then it is put in large vessels where yeast is added to convert sugar to alcohol.
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The Ocean Princess is designed for today's more sophisticated traveller, being a world away from other large and impersonal vessels .
naval
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Passing an oil rig and numerous naval vessels , we moored alongside a jetty on the estuary leading up to the town.
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However, Burns was successfully transferred to a federal revenue cutter and returned to Virginia under the escort of several naval vessels .
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Reductions would affect especially artillery and anti-tank weapons, while procurement of naval vessels would be slowed.
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The deadlock was broken by the New Zealand government which offered the use of two of its naval vessels .
sailing
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But the illusion is soon shattered ... the moored sailing vessel alongside is heaving with 65 members of a film crew.
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Steamers could carry larger volumes of cargo than sailing vessels and do it more frequently and regularly.
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Shall we see commercial sailing vessels ply the seas again?
small
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At first it looked empty, then he saw two small vessels , just short of the horizon, their motion imperceptible.
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Hypercalcemia, rarely, may also cause seizures, possibly related to small cerebral vessel occlusion.
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You can benefit from this same technology nomatterhow large or small your vessel .
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Launching the small glass vessels proved daunting.
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A small vessel containing mercury is added from which extend two hollow copper wires.
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Some clubs allow members to use smaller vessels for free.
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The report identified 67 vessels based in the port, although these were much smaller than the vessels of the early 1970s.
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Really, I think I should have strangled the man if forced to endure his companionship aboard a small vessel !
visible
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The heater probe reached a visible vessel in 90% of the patients.
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Our definition of visible vessel is widely accepted.
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The endoscopic concept of visible vessel includes several stages of the same lesion and even various types of lesions.
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The approach to the visible vessel was difficult in 10 patients.
■ NOUN
blood
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Relaxed tissues and blood vessels - varicose veins, piles etc. with burning in varicose veins.
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Just as in a bruise under the skin, a blood vessel in the brain can leak.
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Vasomax is an oral version of a current injection drug that dilates penile blood vessels .
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One-quarter of this extracellular fluid is contained within blood vessels as the plasma space.
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He was well beaten and in a later race broke a blood vessel .
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If the plaque blocks a blood vessel , a heart attack or stroke can occur.
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A Flight Lieutenant underwent surgery to repair a broken blood vessel in the brain.
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They gasped for breath, struggled against debilitating weakness, and when the blood vessels around their brains ruptured, they died.
cargo
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Since the sacrifice of a single one of these cargo vessels caused terrible losses, merchants yearned to avoid the inevitable.
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No warships were present, but considerable damage was inflicted on cargo vessels , with which the harbor was jammed.
glass
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Two other women lay upon the counter a pickle-bottle and a glass vessel of a kind which altogether defies description.
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Launching the small glass vessels proved daunting.
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The receptacles in Agricola's description may however simply be to make it easier to remove the batches of cool glass vessels .
merchant
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When required for use in war, large numbers of merchant vessels were impressed adhoc.
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Boarding and rummage of a merchant vessel presents no particular problem to us.
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Typically, the arming of a merchant vessel involved mounting eight six-inch guns on the ship.
pressure
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Accurate, up-to-date records must be kept of tests on all lifting equipment and pressure vessels .
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We even got invited to see inside the pressure vessel .
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It is one of four Magnox stations which have suffered problems with the pressure vessels .
■ VERB
build
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When he demonstrated the type of wood he will use to build the vessel ... it sank.
operate
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The jury cleared him of the charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and operating a vessel while intoxicated.
sail
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His smuggling operation employed shipping containers and sailing vessels to move the freight, officials said.
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Passengers will sail aboard a 95-foot vessel , which accommodates up to 12 passengers.
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Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
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To be knocked down by the boom of a sailing vessel was so banal as to be embarrassing.
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Rope is the sinew of any sailing vessel .
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Helper furnishes a list of floods and another of wrecked ships, subdividing the latter into steamers and sailing vessels .
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Small sailing vessels dotted the sheltered waters within sight of the government buildings, riding an a soft southerly breeze.
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A fully equipped tipi had almost as many ropes, lines, pegs, and parts as an old-time sailing vessel .
sink
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And Hugh's cold blood sank low in its vessels .
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Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
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One part could fail without sinking the whole vessel .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sailing vessel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A knife may be used to trim leather-hard pots of any excess, particularly from wheel-thrown and moulded vessels.
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And the Navy wants the vessel cheap -- by Pentagon standards at least.
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Some ritual vessels have shields painted on them.
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The vessel is about 30 miles off the Baja California coast, in international waters.
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Whatever had been on its prow was now gone, sheared off when the sleek vessel had been driven among the trees.
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When caffeine blocks these receptors, blood vessels dilate, increasing the filtration rate and producing more urine.
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You have more sweat glands and blood vessels per square inch in your scalp than any other part of your body.