Vein vs Node - What's the difference?
vein | node |
(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
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are .
(botany) A stem node.
(computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
(medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
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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 .