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Vein

//veɪn// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

    "The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body."

  2. 2
    one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect wordnet
  3. 3
    The entrails of a shrimp. in-plural
  4. 4
    a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart wordnet
  5. 5
    In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
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  1. 6
    a distinctive style or manner wordnet
  2. 7
    The nervure of an insect’s wing.
  3. 8
    a layer of ore between layers of rock wordnet
  4. 9
    A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
  5. 10
    any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ wordnet
  6. 11
    A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.

    "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."

  7. 12
    A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc. figuratively

    "in the same vein"

  8. 13
    A style, tendency, or quality. figuratively

    "The play is in a satirical vein."

  9. 14
    A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

    "down to the veins of earth"

Verb
  1. 1
    To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

    "[…] 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 […]"

  2. 2
    make a veinlike pattern wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

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).

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