vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vān
ipa: /veɪn/
homophone: vain
homophone: vane
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: veins
form: wayn
Etymology: From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).
Senses: examples: text: The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.
text: An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,
And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made,
Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
glosses: The entrails of a shrimp.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The nervure of an insect’s wing.
glosses: A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
examples: text: in the same vein
text: He[…]is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
ref: 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue:
text: Come ride with me
Through the veins of history,
I'll show you how God
Falls asleep on the job
ref: 2006, Matt Bellamy, “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:
glosses: A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
examples: text: The play is in a satirical vein.
text: certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
ref: 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands:
glosses: A style, tendency, or quality.
examples: text: down to the veins of earth
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
Synonyms: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
word: vena
Hyponyms: nervure
Derived terms: anal vein
antenodal vein
axillary vein
azygos vein
azygous vein
ball vein
basilic vein
blue vein
blue-veined cheese
brachiocephalic vein
cardinal vein
collateral vein
common iliac vein
deep-vein thrombosis
deep vein thrombosis
drain the main vein
emissary vein
femoral vein
fissure vein
gate vein
Giacomini vein
great cardiac vein
great cerebral vein
greater saphenous vein
great saphenous vein
hepatic portal vein
hepatic vein
in a similar vein
innominate vein
internal jugular vein
in the same vein
in the vein of
jugular vein
lesser saphenous vein
maxillary vein
pancreatic vein
portal vein
pulmonary vein
radial vein
renal vein
saddle vein
saphenous vein
satellite vein
small saphenous vein
spider vein
splenic vein
subclavian vein
superior mesenteric vein
Sylvian vein
tail vein
testicular vein
varicose vein
veined
veinless
veinlet
veinlike
vein quartz
veinstone
vein valve
veiny
waxen vein
Related terms: venation
venous