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Synonyms for vein

Grammar : Noun
Spell : veyn
Phonetic Transcription : veɪn

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Définition of vein

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French veine, from Latin vena "a blood vessel," also "a water course, a vein of metal, a person's natural ability or interest," of unknown origin. The mining sense is attested in English from late 14c. (Greek phleps "vein" had the same secondary sense). Figurative sense of "strain or intermixture" (of some quality) is recorded from 1560s; that of "a humor or mood, natural tendency" is first recorded 1570s.
  • noun mood, tone
  • noun blood vessel
Example sentences :
  • It is somewhat in the vein of "Sourdough" Service, the Yukon bard.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • The vein in the neck of the fore-quarter should be of a fine blue.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • But I checked him in that Falstaffian vein, urging considerations of time and cookery.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • That she was loved, she knew—knew it through every vein and pulse.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • When a man makes a hit in one vein of writing they want that and nothing else.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • He was, as I have intimated, a person of lofty demeanour, with a vein of high seriousness.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • A vein throbbed in the center of his forehead and his lips were tight over his teeth.
  • Extract from : « The Second Voice » by Mann Rubin
  • Beyond that, it is either too poor to pay, or the vein is hidden.
  • Extract from : « Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining » by John S. Hittell
  • It is rarely that all the rock of a vein will pay for working.
  • Extract from : « Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining » by John S. Hittell
  • Why did he feel such languor in all his limbs, why did his blood burn in every vein?
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

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