A vein is a blood vessel. If you've ever donated blood, you know that having a needle put in your vein by a health care worker is not nearly as scary as it sounds.
One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See
Noun
one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect
Noun
a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; all veins except the pulmonary carry unaerated blood
Noun
a distinctive style or manner; "he continued in this vein for several minutes"
Noun
a layer of ore between layers of rock
Noun
any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ
Verb
make a veinlike pattern
n.
One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or
arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
n.
One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
n.
One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See
Venation.
n.
A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling
inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the
stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of
miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains
useful minerals or ores.
n.
A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other
substance.
n.
A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and
in marble and other stones; variegation.
n.
A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a
current; a course.
n.
Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a
particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also,
manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein.
v. t.
To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Vein
Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins.6.
He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.8.
Certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins.
Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
Vein
One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See
To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Usage Examples
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
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Other Usage ExamplesPeople may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.