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Vein vs Elvan - What's the difference?

vein | elvan |

As nouns the difference between vein and elvan

is that vein is a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart while elvan is the rock of an elvan vein, or the vein itself.

As an adjective elvan is

pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.

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 .

    Related terms

    * in the same vein * veined * veinless * veinlet * veinlike * veinstone * veiny * venation * venous * blue-veined cheese * deep vein thrombosis * pulmonary vein * varicose vein

    See also

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

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * * English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----

    elvan

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to elves; elvish; elven.
  • (mining) Of or relating to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall.
    • an elvan course

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) The rock of an elvan vein, or the vein itself.

    • Synonyms

    * (rock of elvan vein) elvanite (Webster 1913) ----