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vein

See also: veîn and veîn

English

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Veins of the arm (1)
 
Veins of a leaf (3)
 
Veins of a wing (4)
 
Veins within a rock (5.1)

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Latin vēna
Old French veinebor.
Middle English veine
English vein

    From Middle English veine, 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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    vein (plural veins)

    2. (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
      Hyponyms: deep vein, perforator vein, superficial vein
      The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.
      • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [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, […]
    3. (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
    4. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
    5. (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
    6. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
      Synonym: reef
    7. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
      • 1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102:
        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.
    8. (figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
      in the same vein
    9. (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.
    10. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

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    • → Pohnpeian: pein

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    Verb

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    vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)

    1. 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. […] ”

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    Estonian

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    Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
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    veinid

    Etymology

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    From German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin vīnum. Doublet of viin (“vodka”). First attested in 1869.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈvei̯n/, [ˈvei̯n]
    • Rhymes: -ein
    • Hyphenation: vein

    Noun

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    vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)

    1. wine (alcoholic beverage obtained by fermentation of berry or fruit juice)
      kuiv vein ― dry wine
      magus vein ― sweet wine
      punane vein ― red wine
      valge vein ― white wine
      roosa vein ― rosé

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    Declension of vein (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
    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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    References

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    • vein in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
    • “vein”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
    • “vein”, in [SP] Eesti keele sõnapered [Estonian Word Families] (in Estonian) (online version, continuously updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012–
    • Jüri Viikberg (2024), “vein”, in [YSL] Ülemsaksa laensõnad eesti keeles [High German Loanwords in the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online dictionary)

    Finnish

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    vein

    1. first-person singular indicative past of viedä

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    vein

    1. instructive plural of vee

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    Etymology

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    From Old French vin, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

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    vein m (plural veins)

    1. wine

    Icelandic

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    Etymology

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    Deverbal from veina (“to wail”).

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    vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)

    1. wail, lament

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    Declension of vein (neuter)
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative vein veinið vein veinin
    accusative vein veinið vein veinin
    dative veini veininu veinum veinunum
    genitive veins veinsins veina veinanna

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old French vain, from Latin vānus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.

    Adjective

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    vein

    1. vain (worthless, useless)
    2. vain (futile, ineffectual)
    3. unfounded, false, misleading
    4. (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible
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    vein (uncountable)

    1. something that is worthless or futile
    2. idleness, triviality
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    Noun

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    vein (plural veines)

    1. alternative form of veine (“vein”)

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    Adverb

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    vein

    1. alternative form of fain
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