Veil vs Surveil - What's the difference?
veil | surveil |
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
* Milton
A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
* Shakespeare
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.
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.
To don, or garb with, a veil.
To conceal as with a veil.
(nonstandard) To keep someone or something under surveillance.
:The plaintiff also stresses that the store as a whole, and the customer exits especially, were closely surveilled .
::Alexandre of London v. Indem. Ins. Co., 182 F. Supp. 748, 750 (United States District Court for the District of Columbia) (1960), cited in
As verbs the difference between veil and surveil
is that veil is to don, or garb with, a veil while surveil is to keep someone or something under surveillance.As a noun 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.veil
English
Noun
(en noun)- The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
- She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
- [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
- Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
Verb
- The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.
Anagrams
* * * * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----surveil
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Verb
Bryan A. Garner. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (2nd ed., 2001)p. 861