vein

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /veɪn/    美 /veɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. The entrails of a shrimp. in-plural
  3. In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
  4. The nervure of an insect’s wing.
  5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
  6. 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. A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc. figuratively
    — in the same vein
  8. A style, tendency, or quality. figuratively
    — The play is in a satirical vein.
  9. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
    — down to the veins of earth
动词 v.
  1. 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 […]

词形变化

veins plural wayn alternative,obsolete veins present,singular,third-person veining participle,present veined participle,past veined past wayn alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
vena
下位词
nervure
衍生词
along the same vein anal vein antenodal vein axillary vein azygos vein azygous vein ball vein basilic vein blue vein blue-veined cheese brachiocephalic vein cardinal vein citrus vein phloem degeneration collateral vein common iliac vein deep-vein thrombosis deep vein thrombosis drain the main vein emissary vein femoral vein fissure vein gate vein Giacomini vein great cardiac vein great cerebral vein greater saphenous vein great saphenous vein hepatic portal vein hepatic vein in a similar vein infraorbital vein innominate vein internal jugular vein in the same vein in the vein of jugular vein lesser saphenous vein maxillary vein pancreatic vein portal vein pulmonary vein radial vein renal vein saddle vein saphenous vein satellite vein small saphenous vein spider vein splenic vein subclavian vein superior mesenteric vein Sylvian vein tail vein testicular vein Thebesian vein umbilical vein varicose vein veined veinless veinlet veinlike vein quartz veinstone vein valve veiny waxen vein
相关词
venation venous

词源

词源 1
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).
词源 2
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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