vein
UK/veɪn/
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Scotland/ven/
vein noun: a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
Noun
vein (plural veins)
- 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.
- 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, […]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...
- The entrails of a shrimp.
- In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- reef
- 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.1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102
- A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
- in the same vein
- He[…]is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- A style, tendency, or quality.
- The play is in a satirical vein.
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
- A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
- down to the veins of earth1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins1704, 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]...
Verb
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.
- […] 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 […]1853, Henry William Herbert, chapter 18, in The Roman Traitor, volume II, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, page 204
- “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […]”1920, Melville Davisson Post, chapter 14, in The Sleuth of St. James’s Square
vein meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
vein in Hindi
- blood vessel transporting blood towards the heart
- शिरा śirā
vein in Tamil
- blood vessel transporting blood towards the heart
- சிரை cirai
vein in Marathi
- blood vessel transporting blood towards the heart
- शीर śīr, नस nas
vein in Urdu
- blood vessel transporting blood towards the heart
- وَرِید varīd
More languagesFewer languages
- vein in Bengali
- শিরা śira
- vein in Telugu
- సిర sira, ఈనె īne
- vein in Malayalam
- സിര sira
- vein in Kannada
- ನರವು, ಎಳೆ, ಅಭಿಧಮನಿ
- vein in Punjabi
- ਨਾੜ nāṛ
- vein in Odia
- ଶିରା
- vein in Sanskrit
- धरा dharā, शिला śilā́
- vein in Assamese
- সিৰ xir
- vein in Nepali
- नसा nasā
- vein in Pashto
- رګ rag, وريد warīd
- vein in Tagalog
- ugat, bena, balidaluyan, ugat-anuran
- vein in Arabic
- وَرِيد warīd, عِرْق ʕirq
- vein in Malay
- urat, vena, tulang, tulang daun
- vein in Indonesian
- pembuluh darah, vena, pembuluh balik, urat
- vein in Thai
- หลอดเลือดดำ lɔ̀ɔt-lʉ̂ʉat-dam, เส้นเลือด sên-lʉ̂ʉat, เส้นเลือดดำ sên-lʉ̂ʉat-dam
- vein in Vietnamese
- tĩnh mạch, ven
- vein in Myanmar
- သွေးကြော swe:krau:, သွေးပြန်ကြော swe:prankrau:
Examples of vein in a sentence
- Besides the arteries blood streams through numerous veins we call collaterals.
- Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- The great saphenous vein is a tributary of the femoral vein.
Synonyms of vein
Forms of vein
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | veins |
| alternative form (obsolete) | wayn |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | veins |
| present participle | veining |
| past participle | veined |
| past | veined |
Origin of 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).
Words formed from vein
- allovein
- along the same vein
- anal vein
- antenodal vein
- axillary vein
- azygos vein
- azygous vein
- ball vein
- basilic vein
- blue vein
- blue-veined cheese
- brachiocephalic vein
- cardinal vein
- citrus vein phloem degeneration
- collateral vein
- common iliac vein
- crossvein
- deep-vein thrombosis
- deep vein thrombosis
- devein
- drain the main vein
- emissary vein
- envein
- femoral vein
- fissure vein
- gate vein
- Giacomini vein
- great cardiac vein
- great cerebral vein
- greater saphenous vein
- great saphenous vein
- hemivein
- hepatic portal vein
- hepatic vein
- in a similar vein
- infraorbital vein
- innominate vein
- internal jugular vein
- intervein
- in the same vein
- in the vein of
- jugular vein
- lesser saphenous vein
- maxillary vein
- microvein
- midvein
- pancreatic vein
- portal vein
- pseudovein
- pulmonary vein
- radial vein
- renal vein
- saddle vein
- Santorini's vein
- saphenous vein
- satellite vein
- small saphenous vein
- spider vein
- splenic vein
- subclavian vein
Phrases with vein
Words that rhyme with vein
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- drain
- pane
- gain
- main
- sustain
- entertain
- skein
- Wayne
- abstain
- bane
- campaign
- champagne
- crane
- entrain
- fain
- insane
- maine
- pain
- plane
- stain
- wane
- Aquitaine
- ascertain
- chicane
- contain
- detain
- explain
- maintain
- mundane
- obtain
- refrain
- remain
- vane
- amain
- arcane
- Blaine
- complain
- deign
- detrain
- distrain
- kane
- ordain
- pertain
- profane
- public domain
- reign
- swain
- terrain
Questions about vein
- What does vein mean?
- Vein means a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
- What is vein in Hindi?
- Vein in Hindi is शिरा (śirā). See Vein meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vein?
- Vein can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce vein?
- Vein is pronounced /veɪn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of vein?
- The plural of vein is veins.
Words near vein in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vein (page history and authors); സിര (Malayalam) (page history and authors); vein (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਨਾੜ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); vein (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); धरा (Sanskrit) (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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