vein

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim The entrails of a shrimp.
3. isim In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
4. isim The nervure of an insect’s wing.
5. isim A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
6. isim 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.”

7. isim A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.

   “in the same vein”

8. isim A style, tendency, or quality.

   “The play is in a satirical vein.”

9. isim A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

   “down to the veins of earth”

10. fiil 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 […]”