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[ UK /vˈe‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈveɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. make a veinlike pattern
NOUN
  1. one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect
  2. a distinctive style or manner
    he continued in this vein for several minutes
  3. any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ
  4. a layer of ore between layers of rock
  5. 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
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