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UK
/vˈeɪn/
]
[ US /ˈveɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈveɪn/ ]
VERB
- make a veinlike pattern
NOUN
- one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect
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a distinctive style or manner
he continued in this vein for several minutes - any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ
- a layer of ore between layers of rock
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a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart
all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood
How To Use vein In A Sentence
- My body absorbed that ability as well; my veins are internally hardened against acids.
- I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
- VARIOUS LEATHER PICTURE, It's a high classic decoration , made by hand, use nature color and veins of leather to make design, it shows obvious stereoscopy like relief sculpture but softly .
- The measurements were consistently made from the same point of the junction of the wing veins.
- An aortogram shows opacification of pulmonary arteries, veins and right atrium as well as the aorta.
- Island on the L.S. is one of the worst quick or moveing sand bars Which I have Seen, notwithstanding all our precaustons to Clear the Sands and pass between them (which was the way we were compd. to pass, from the immence Current & falling banks on the S. S.) the Boat Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
- This increased pressure compresses the arteries and veins, decreasing blood flow to the muscles.
- I guess the term for that is "social networking," but I remain more interested in the social than the networking, and blogging under a pseudonym six or eight times a month in a personal essayish vein isn't exactly the fast lane to fame and influence. Archive 2009-05-01
- At the Fallowfield lead mine, near Hexham in Northumberland, it is associated with witherite; and at Bromley Hill, near Alston in Cumberland, it occurs in veins with galena. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
- I have this satisfactory stereotype in my mind's eye, all broken veins and Mittel Europa. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
