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Vein vs Veining - What's the difference?

vein | veining |

As nouns the difference between vein and veining

is that vein is a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart while veining is an arrangement of veins or veinlike markings.

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

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    veining

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings

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