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Arter vs Vein - What's the difference?

arter | vein |

As nouns the difference between arter and vein

is that arter is while vein is .

arter

English

Preposition

(English prepositions)
  • * 1861 , , chapter 3,
  • His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a-pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.
  • * Id., chapter 39,
  • It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers - all for you - when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter.
  • * 2000 , Alexander Kent, Colours Aloft! , McBooks Press, ISBN 0935526722, page 115,
  • "Is he asleep at last?"...
    "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"

    Anagrams

    * ----

    vein

    English

    (wikipedia vein)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
  • (used in plural veins ) The entrails of a shrimp
  • (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
  • (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing
  • A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks
  • A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
  • ...in the same vein ...
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
  • A style, tendency, or quality.
  • The play is in a satirical vein .
  • * Francis Bacon
  • certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
  • * Waller
  • Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .
  • A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
  • * Milton
  • down to the veins of earth
  • * Isaac Newton
  • Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .

    See also

    * artery * blood vessel * capillary * circulatory system * phlebitis * vena cava