Via vs Veer - What's the difference?
via | veer |
A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
(label) A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
By way of; passing through.
By (means of); using (a medium).
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As per (a mathematical equation).
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(obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 12:
*:As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.
To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
* (rfdate), Dryden:
* (rfdate), Burke:
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(of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).Bowditch 2002
(intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
(nautical) To change direction into the wind; to ship.
To turn.
As a preposition via
is (british spelling).As a verb veer is
(obsolete|nautical) to let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out or veer can be to change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.As a noun veer is
a turn or swerve; an instance of veering.via
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Etymology 1
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(en-noun)Derived terms
{{der3, via affirmativa , Via Crucis , Via Dolorosa , Via Egnatia , Via Lactea , via media , via negativa}}Etymology 2
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*Preposition
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Anagrams
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) virer.Verb
(en verb)- The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
- And as he leads, the following navy veers .
- An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
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