Vel vs Veil - What's the difference?
vel | veil |
(logic) The symbol used to represent the inclusive or logical connective.Sainsbury, Mark (2001). Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic . Blackwell Publishing. p. 55.
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.
As nouns the difference between vel and veil
is that vel is the ∨ symbol used to represent the inclusive or logical connective 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.vel
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veil
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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.