Futile vs Vein - What's the difference?
futile | vein |
Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
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, title= (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.
* Jonathan Swift
A style, tendency, or quality.
* Francis Bacon
* Waller
A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
* Milton
* Isaac Newton
As an adjective futile
is incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.As a noun vein is
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Adjective
(en adjective)Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham, passage=Goals from Steven Pienaar, Andros Townsend, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane sealed the win, but Rubin Kazan's 1-1 draw against PAOK Salonika rendered Spurs' efforts futile .}}
Synonyms
* ineffectual * unavailing * vain * idle * fruitless * See alsoAntonyms
* effectual * effectivevein
English
(wikipedia vein)Noun
(en noun)- ...in the same vein ...
- He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
- The play is in a satirical vein .
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
- Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .
- down to the veins of earth
- Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .