vein
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vein (plural veins)
- (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
- Hyponyms: deep vein, perforator vein, superficial vein
- c. 1587–1588, [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:
- 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, […]
- (in the plural) 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.
- (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
- (figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
- in the same vein
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue:
- He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
- 2006, Matt Bellamy (lyrics and music), “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:
- Come ride with me
Through the veins of history,
I'll show you how God
Falls asleep on the job
- (figurative) A style, tendency, or quality.
- The play is in a satirical vein.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
- 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands:
- Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
- A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- down to the veins of earth
- 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:
- I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins
Synonyms[edit]
- (anatomy): vena
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- anal vein
- antenodal vein
- axillary vein
- azygos vein
- azygous vein
- ball vein
- basilic vein
- blue vein
- blue-veined cheese
- brachiocephalic vein
- cardinal vein
- common iliac vein
- deep vein thrombosis
- deep-vein thrombosis
- drain the main vein
- fissure vein
- gate vein
- Giacomini vein
- great cardiac vein
- great cerebral vein
- greater saphenous vein
- great saphenous vein
- hepatic portal 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
- portal vein
- pulmonary vein
- radial vein
- renal vein
- saddle vein
- saphenous vein
- satellite vein
- small saphenous vein
- spider vein
- splenic vein
- subclavian vein
- Sylvian vein
- tail vein
- varicose vein
- veined
- veinless
- veinlet
- veinlike
- vein quartz
- veinstone
- veiny
- waxen vein
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Verb[edit]
vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)
- To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
- 1853, Henry William Herbert, chapter 18, in The Roman Traitor[1], volume II, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, page 204:
- […] 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 […]
- 1920, Melville Davisson Post, chapter 14, in The Sleuth of St. James’s Square[2]:
- “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “vein”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “vein”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “vein”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Estonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin vīnum. Doublet of viin.
Noun[edit]
vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)
Declension[edit]
Declension of vein (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | vein | veinid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | veini | ||
genitive | veinide | ||
partitive | veini | veine veinisid | |
illative | veini veinisse |
veinidesse veinesse | |
inessive | veinis | veinides veines | |
elative | veinist | veinidest veinest | |
allative | veinile | veinidele veinele | |
adessive | veinil | veinidel veinel | |
ablative | veinilt | veinidelt veinelt | |
translative | veiniks | veinideks veineks | |
terminative | veinini | veinideni | |
essive | veinina | veinidena | |
abessive | veinita | veinideta | |
comitative | veiniga | veinidega |
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Finnish[edit]
Verb[edit]
vein
Noun[edit]
vein
- instructive plural of vee
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Gallo[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French vin, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.
Noun[edit]
vein m (plural veins)
Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from veina (“to wail”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French vain, from Latin vānus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.
Adjective[edit]
vein
- vain (worthless, useless)
- vain (futile, ineffectual)
- unfounded, false, misleading
- (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible
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Noun[edit]
vein (uncountable)
- something that is worthless or futile
- idleness, triviality
Alternative forms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: vain
References[edit]
- “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
vein (plural veines)
- Alternative form of veine (“vein”)
Etymology 3[edit]
Adverb[edit]
vein
- Alternative form of fain
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