vein
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
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).
Inflected forms:
form: veins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wayn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: veins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: veining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: veined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: veined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wayn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
pos: noun
examples: The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.
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, […]
gloss: The entrails of a shrimp.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
pos: noun
gloss: The nervure of an insect’s wing.
pos: noun
gloss: A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
pos: noun
gloss: A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
pos: noun
examples: They general­ly occur in the earth in what are called veins, and are seldom found in the pure metallic state, but generally in combination with some other substance, in which state they are call­ed ores.
gloss: A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: in the same vein
He[…]is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
Come ride with me
Through the veins of history,
I'll show you how God
Falls asleep on the job
gloss: A style, tendency, or quality.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The play is in a satirical vein.
certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
gloss: A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
pos: noun
examples: down to the veins of earth
I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins
gloss: To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
pos: verb
examples: […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]
“We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […]”
Synonyms: vena
Related words: venation
venous
Derived words: along the same vein
anal vein
antenodal vein
axillary vein
azygos vein
azygous vein
ball vein
basilic vein
blue vein
blue-veined cheese
brachiocephalic vein
cardinal vein
citrus vein phloem degeneration
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
infraorbital 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
Thebesian vein
umbilical vein
varicose vein
veined
veinless
veinlet
veinlike
vein quartz
veinstone
vein valve
veiny
waxen vein
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