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Bandage vs Veil - What's the difference?

bandage | veil |

As nouns the difference between bandage and veil

is that bandage is while veil is something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.

As a verb veil is

to don, or garb with, a veil.

bandage

English

(wikipedia bandage)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
  • * 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
  • A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
  • * 1844: (Alexander Dumas), (The Count of Monte Cristo) [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_75]
    • the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}

    Derived terms

    * adhesive bandage * compression bandage * gauze bandage * triangular bandage

    Related terms

    * dressing * splint

    Verb

    (bandag)
  • To apply a bandage to something.
  • * 1879: Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=644473384&tag=Twain,+Mark,+1835-1910:+A+Tramp+Abroad,+1879&query=+bandaging&id=TwaTram]
    • ...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.

    veil

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51
    • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
  • * Milton
    • She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
  • A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  • * Shakespeare
    • [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.
    • Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
  • The calyptra of mosses.
  • A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
  • A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
  • (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)
  • (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

    • Verb

  • To don, or garb with, a veil.
  • To conceal as with a veil.
    • The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

    Anagrams

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