Noun: vein
Sample Sentences
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The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.
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An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,
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And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
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Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made,
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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; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:]
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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:]
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in the same vein
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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:]
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Come ride with me
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Through the veins of history,
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I'll show you how God
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Falls asleep on the job [2006, Matt Bellamy, “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:]
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The play is in a satirical vein.
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certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
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Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein. [1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands:]
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down to the veins of earth [1667, 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 as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
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I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins [1704, 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] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like vein
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin vēna
3. Old French veinebor.
4. Middle English veine
5. English vein
6. 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). See: Middle English Nouns '
veine', Latin Nouns '
vēna'.
Verbs referencing "vein"
Swedish Nouns
ven, Portuguese Nouns
veia.