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vein

See also: 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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Etymology

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From Middle English veyne, 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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Noun

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vein (plural veins)

  2. (anatomy) 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.
    Hyponyms: deep vein, perforator vein, superficial vein
    • c. 1587–1588, [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.
    1. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
  7. (figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
    in the same vein
    • 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue:
      He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
    • 2006, Matt Bellamy (lyrics and music), “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:
      Come ride with me
      Through the veins of history,
      I'll show you how God
      Falls asleep on the job
  8. (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.
  9. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.

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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.

Pronunciation

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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

Declension

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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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Compounds

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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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Noun

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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

Middle English

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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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  • English: vain
  • Scots: vane, vain, vaine

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vein (uncountable)

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

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Noun

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vein (plural veines)

  1. Alternative form of veine (“vein”)

Etymology 3

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Adverb

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vein

  1. Alternative form of fain
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