vee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
sports
typography
Inflected forms:
form: vees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: veeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: veed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: veed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter V/v.
pos: noun
examples: Gussa-Merry-Mingo-Pip-Perry-Pingo is the name of the little old man who looks after the aitch-oh-vee-ee-ar-cee-ay-ar-pee-ee-tee-blank-ar-eye-dee-ee-ess.
RV [is spoken] as "ar-vee" instead of "I SPELL Romeo Victor".
gloss: Something with the shape of the letter V.
pos: noun
examples: This is a 16-cylinder unit with the cylinders arranged in vee formation, operating on the four-stroke cycle and pressure-charged by four Napier exhaust gas-driven turbo-chargers.
One of [the men] took up both spaces on the pink sofa, while the other two drew up chairs from a nearby table and squeezed into them. The armrests were forced out into a tired vee, to the accompaniment of an uneasy creaking sound.
The river leapt and rippled like a lizard. Geese flew over in a vee, crying to the sky.
York's new railway offices are rather smart, tucked into the vee of York South Junction where the freight lines diverge to avoid the station.
gloss: The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played.
pos: noun
gloss: The V-shaped joint between the lower end of the handle and the blade of the bat.
pos: noun
gloss: A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of vertical spacing, typically corresponding to the height of an ordinary line of text.
pos: noun
gloss: To form something into a "v" shape, particularly as part of a welding, machining, or manufacturing process.
pos: verb
examples: As the metal melts it is veed out with the paddle for about 2 in.
Use a die grinder to vee out the crack or to remove pounded-out metal where the valve seat came loose.
Derived words: Empty-Vee
jayvee
teevee
three-vee
vee-belt
Vee Dub
veejay
veep
veepee
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: ڤِي
roman: vī
lang: Arabic
word: وِي
roman: wī
lang: Arabic
word: فِي
roman: fī
lang: Asturian
word: uve
lang: Bengali
word: ভি
roman: bhi
lang: Bulgarian
word: ве
roman: ve
lang: Burmese
word: ဗွီ
roman: bwi
lang: Catalan
word: ve
lang: Catalan
word: ve baixa
lang: Czech
word: vé
lang: Dutch
word: vee
lang: Esperanto
word: vo
lang: Faroese
word: ve
lang: Finnish
word: vee
lang: French
word: vé
lang: Galician
word: uve
lang: German
word: Vau
lang: Greek
word: βι
roman: vi
lang: Hawaiian
word: wī
lang: Hindi
word: वी
roman: vī
lang: Icelandic
word: vaff
lang: Ido
word: ve
lang: Indonesian
word: ve
lang: Irish
word: vé
lang: Japanese
word: ヴィー
roman: vī
lang: Japanese
word: ヴイ
roman: vui
lang: Japanese
word: ブイ
roman: bui
lang: Korean
word: 브이
roman: beu'i
lang: Latin
word: ū
lang: Malay
word: vi
lang: Marathi
word: व्ही
roman: vhī
lang: Occitan
word: ve
lang: Portuguese
word: vê
lang: Russian
word: ви
roman: vi
lang: Russian
word: вэ
roman: vɛ
lang: Spanish
word: ve
lang: Spanish
word: uve
lang: Spanish
word: ve chica
lang: Spanish
word: ve pequeña
lang: Spanish
word: ve corta
lang: Spanish
word: ve baja
lang: Tagalog
word: vi
lang: Thai
word: วี
roman: wee
lang: Turkish
word: ve
lang: Vietnamese
word: vê
lang: Vietnamese
word: vờ
lang: Welsh
word: fi