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vae

vae is the alternative form of voe.

Meaning of voe

Noun

voe (plural voes)

  1. (UK) A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord.
    • The power thou dost covet / O'er tempest and wave, / Shall be thine, thou proud maiden, / By beach and by cave,— / By stack and by skerry, by noup, and by voe, / By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio, / And by every wild shore which the northern winds know, / And the northern tides lave.1822, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Pirate. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 142

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Noun capitalized: VAE

VAE (plural VAEs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, machine learning) Initialism of variational autoencoder.

Forms of vae

pluralvaes
pluralVAEs

Questions about vae

What is vae the alternative form of?
Vae is the alternative form of voe.
What part of speech is vae?
Vae is a noun.
What is the plural of vae?
The plural of vae is vaes.

Words near vae in the dictionary

  1. Vadu Pașii
  2. Vadukul
  3. Vaduz
  4. Vadym
  5. Vadzim
  6. vae
  7. Vaeakau-Taumako
  8. vaejovid
  9. vaejovids
  10. VAERS
  11. vaes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vae (page history and authors); VAE (page history and authors); voe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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