Vein
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English
Noun
Vein (plural Veins)- (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
- (used in plural veins) The entrails of a shrimp
- (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
- (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing
- A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks
- A topic of discussion
- ...and on a different vein, can we discuss...
- A style, tendency, or quality of something
Thesaurus
affectation, aorta, arteriole, artery, attitude, band, bar, bed, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blood vessel, blotch, body-build, bonanza, brand, capillary, carotid, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, check, checker, chimney, chute, command of language, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, cornucopia, country rock, course, crasis, cue, dapple, deposit, dharma, diathesis, dike, disposition, dot, ethos, exaggeration, expression of ideas, fashion, feeling, feeling for words, fettle, fiber, flake, fleck, font, form of speech, fount, fountain, frame, frame of mind, freckle, gangue, genius, gold mine, grace of expression, grain, grandiloquence, gruel, habit, harlequin, heart, hint, hue, humor, humors, ilk, inflation, iris, jugular vein, kind, lath, line, literary style, lode, lodestuff, maculate, makeup, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, marble, marbleize, matrix, mere shadow, mind, mine, mineral deposit, mode, mode of expression, mold, mood, morale, motley, mottle, nature, note, ore bed, paper, pattern, pay dirt, peculiarity, pepper, personal style, physique, polychrome, polychromize, portal vein, property, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, quality, quarry, rail, rainbow, rake, resource, rhetoric, seam, sense of language, shade, shadow, shaving, shoot, skeleton, slat, slip, somatotype, sort, soup, source, source of supply, spangle, speck, speckle, spirit, spirits, splinter, splotch, spot, spring, sprinkle, stamp, staple, state of mind, stigmatize, stipple, stock, strain, stratum, streak, stria, striate, striation, stripe, stud, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, suchness, suggestion, suspicion, system, tattoo, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tessellate, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, thread, tincture, tinge, tone, touch, trace, trick, type, variegate, veinlet, vena cava, venation, venule, wafer, way, well, wellspring
Etymology
From Middle English < Old French < Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel, vein, artery, also a watercourse, a vein of metal, a vein or streak of wood or stone, a row of trees, strength, a person's natural bent, ect.”); probable origin a pipe or channel for conveying a fluid < vehere (“to carry, convey”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: vān, IPA: /veɪn/, SAMPA: /veIn/
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Audio (US) noicon (file) - Homophones: vain, vane
- Rhymes: -eɪn
Translations
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Related terms
- in the same vein
- veined
- veinless
- veinlet
- veinlike
- veinstone
- veiny
- venation
- venous
- blue-veined cheese
- deep vein thrombosis
- pulmonary vein
- varicose vein
See also
External links
- Vein in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Vein in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Vein at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
Vein
Finnish
Verb
vein
- singular indicative past form of viedä
Anagrams
Icelandic
Noun
Vein n.
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