'Vein' definitions:
Definition of 'vein'
(from WordNet)
noun
A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood" [syn: vein, vena, venous blood vessel]
noun
A distinctive style or manner; "he continued in this vein for several minutes"
noun
Any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ [syn: vein, nervure]
noun
A layer of ore between layers of rock [syn: vein, mineral vein]
noun
One of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect [syn: vein, nervure]
verb
Make a veinlike pattern
Definition of 'Vein'
From: GCIDE
- Vein \Vein\, n. [OE. veine, F. veine, L. vena.]
- 1. (Anat.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Geol. or Mining) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance. "Down to the veins of earth." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A train of associations, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course; as, reasoning in the same vein. [1913 Webster]
- He can open a vein of true and noble thinking. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Vein'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'vein'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affectation,
- aorta,
- arteriole,
- artery,
- attitude,
- band,
- bar,
- bed,
- bespangle,
- bespeckle,
- bespot,
- blood vessel,
- blotch,
- body-build,
- bonanza,
- brand,
- capillary,
- carotid,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- characteristics,
- check,
- checker,
- chimney,
- chute,
- command of language,
- complexion,
- composition,
- constituents,
- constitution,
- cornucopia,
- country rock,
- course,
- crasis,
- cue,
- dapple,
- deposit,
- dharma,
- diathesis,
- dike,
- disposition,
- dot,
- ethos,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- fashion,
- feeling,
- feeling for words,
- fettle,
- fiber,
- flake,
- fleck,
- font,
- form of speech,
- fount,
- fountain,
- frame,
- frame of mind,
- freckle,
- gangue,
- genius,
- gold mine,
- grace of expression,
- grain,
- grandiloquence,
- gruel,
- habit,
- harlequin,
- heart,
- hint,
- hue,
- humor,
- humors,
- ilk,
- inflation,
- iris,
- jugular vein,
- kind,
- lath,
- line,
- literary style,
- lode,
- lodestuff,
- maculate,
- makeup,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- marble,
- marbleize,
- matrix,
- mere shadow,
- mind,
- mine,
- mineral deposit,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mold,
- mood,
- morale,
- motley,
- mottle,
- nature,
- note,
- ore bed,
- paper,
- pattern,
- pay dirt,
- peculiarity,
- pepper,
- personal style,
- physique,
- polychrome,
- polychromize,
- portal vein,
- property,
- pulmonary artery,
- pulmonary vein,
- quality,
- quarry,
- rail,
- rainbow,
- rake,
- resource,
- rhetoric,
- seam,
- sense of language,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shaving,
- shoot,
- skeleton,
- slat,
- slip,
- somatotype,
- sort,
- soup,
- source,
- source of supply,
- spangle,
- speck,
- speckle,
- spirit,
- spirits,
- splinter,
- splotch,
- spot,
- spring,
- sprinkle,
- stamp,
- staple,
- state of mind,
- stigmatize,
- stipple,
- stock,
- strain,
- stratum,
- streak,
- stria,
- striate,
- striation,
- stripe,
- stud,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- suchness,
- suggestion,
- suspicion,
- system,
- tattoo,
- temper,
- temperament,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- tessellate,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- thread,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tone,
- touch,
- trace,
- trick,
- type,
- variegate,
- veinlet,
- vena cava,
- venation,
- venule,
- wafer,
- way,
- well,
- wellspring
Words containing 'Vein'
- Veined,
- Veining,
- Ball vein,
- Cardinal veins,
- Cephalic vein,
- Fissure vein,
- Gate vein,
- Quick vein,
- To breathe a vein,
- Vein quartz,
- accompanying vein,
- anastomotic vein,
- angular vein,
- appendicular vein,
- auricular vein,
- axillary vein,
- azygos vein,
- azygous vein,
- basal vein,
- basilic vein,
- basivertebral vein,
- brachial vein,
- brachiocephalic vein,
- bronchial vein,
- capillary vein,
- cardinal vein,
- cerebellar vein,
- cerebral vein,
- cervical vein,
- choroid vein,
- ciliary veins,
- circumflex vein,
- clitoral vein,
- colic vein,
- conjunctival veins,
- costoaxillary vein,
- cutaneous vein,
- cystic vein,
- digital vein,
- diploic vein,
- emissary vein,
- epigastric vein,
- episcleral veins,
- esophageal veins,
- ethmoidal vein,
- facial vein,
- femoral vein,
- fibular vein,
- gastric vein,
- gastroepiploic vein,
- gastroomental vein,
- genicular vein,
- gluteal vein,
- hemizygos vein,
- hemizygous vein,
- hemorrhoidal vein,
- hepatic vein,
- hypogastric vein,
- ileocolic vein,
- iliac vein,
- iliolumbar vein,
- innominate vein,
- intercapitular vein,
- intercostal vein,
- intervertebral vein,
- jugular vein,
- labial vein,
- labyrinthine vein,
- lacrimal vein,
- laryngeal vein,
- lingual vein,
- lumbar vein,
- maxillary vein,
- meningeal veins,
- mesenteric vein,
- metacarpal vein,
- metatarsal vein,
- mineral vein,
- musculophrenic vein,
- nasofrontal vein,
- obturator vein,
- occipital vein,
- oesophageal veins,
- ophthalmic vein,
- ovarian vein,
- palatine vein,
- pancreatic vein,
- paraumbilical vein,
- parotid vein,
- pectoral vein,
- perforating vein,
- pericardial vein,
- peroneal vein,
- pharyngeal vein,
- phrenic vein,
- popliteal vein,
- portal vein,
- prepyloric vein,
- pudendal vein,
- pulmonary vein,
- pyloric vein,
- radial vein,
- rectal vein,
- renal vein,
- retromandibular vein,
- sacral vein,
- saphenous vein,
- scleral veins,
- scrotal vein,
- sigmoid vein,
- spinal vein,
- splenic vein,
- sternocleidomastoid vein,
- striate vein,
- stylomastoid vein,
- subclavian vein,
- sublingual vein,
- supraorbital vein,
- supratrochlear vein,
- temporal vein,
- testicular vein,
- thalamostriate vein,
- thoracic vein,
- thoracoepigastric vein,
- thyroid vein,
- tibial vein,
- tracheal vein,
- tympanic vein,
- ulnar vein,
- umbilical vein,
- uterine vein,
- varicose vein,
- vein of penis,
- veined venose,
- vertebral vein,
- vesical vein,
- vestibular vein,
- vortex vein,
- vorticose vein,
- Blue-veined,
- Feather-veined,
- Net-veined,
- Radiate-veined,
- Rake-vein,
- accessory cephalic vein,
- accessory hemiazygos vein,
- accessory hemiazygous vein,
- accessory vertebral vein,
- anterior cardinal vein,
- anterior cerebral vein,
- anterior facial vein,
- anterior jugular vein,
- anterior labial veins,
- anterior vertebral vein,
- arcuate vein of the kidney,
- central vein of retina,
- central veins of liver,
- circumflex femoral vein,
- circumflex iliac vein,
- common cardinal vein,
- common facial vein,
- common iliac vein,
- curve-veined,
- deep cervical vein,
- deep temporal vein,
- dorsal scapular vein,
- external iliac vein,
- external jugular vein,
- external nasal vein,
- great cerebral vein,
- great saphenous vein,
- hepatic portal vein,
- inferior cerebral vein,
- inferior epigastric vein,
- inferior labial vein,
- inferior ophthalmic vein,
- inferior pulmonary vein,
- inferior thalamostriate vein,
- inferior thyroid vein,
- internal auditory vein,
- internal cerebral vein,
- internal iliac vein,
- internal jugular vein,
- left gastric vein,
- long saphenous vein,
- middle cerebral vein,
- middle temporal vein,
- middle thyroid vein,
- posterior cardinal vein,
- posterior facial vein,
- posterior labial veins,
- purple-veined,
- right gastric vein,
- short saphenous vein,
- superficial epigastric vein,
- superficial temporal vein,
- superior cerebral vein,
- superior epigastric veins,
- superior labial vein,
- superior ophthalmic vein,
- superior pulmonary vein,
- superior thalamostriate vein,
- superior thyroid vein,
- central vein of suprarenal gland,
- deep middle cerebral vein,
- oblique vein of the left atrium,
- parallel-veined leaf,
- posterior vein of the left ventricle,
- superficial middle cerebral vein,
- red-veined pie plant