Vein

Noun

 * 1)  A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
 * 2) (used in plural veins) The entrails of a shrimp
 * 3)  In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
 * 4)  The nervure of an insect’s wing
 * 5) A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks
 * 6) A topic of discussion
 * ...and on a different vein, can we discuss...
 * 1) A style, tendency, or quality of something

Thesaurus
affectation, aorta, arteriole, artery, attitude, band, bar, bed, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blood vessel, blotch, body-build, bonanza, brand, capillary, carotid, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, check, checker, chimney, chute, command of language, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, cornucopia, country rock, course, crasis, cue, dapple, deposit, dharma, diathesis, dike, disposition, dot, ethos, exaggeration, expression of ideas, fashion, feeling, feeling for words, fettle, fiber, flake, fleck, font, form of speech, fount, fountain, frame, frame of mind, freckle, gangue, genius, gold mine, grace of expression, grain, grandiloquence, gruel, habit, harlequin, heart, hint, hue, humor, humors, ilk, inflation, iris, jugular vein, kind, lath, line, literary style, lode, lodestuff, maculate, makeup, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, marble, marbleize, matrix, mere shadow, mind, mine, mineral deposit, mode, mode of expression, mold, mood, morale, motley, mottle, nature, note, ore bed, paper, pattern, pay dirt, peculiarity, pepper, personal style, physique, polychrome, polychromize, portal vein, property, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, quality, quarry, rail, rainbow, rake, resource, rhetoric, seam, sense of language, shade, shadow, shaving, shoot, skeleton, slat, slip, somatotype, sort, soup, source, source of supply, spangle, speck, speckle, spirit, spirits, splinter, splotch, spot, spring, sprinkle, stamp, staple, state of mind, stigmatize, stipple, stock, strain, stratum, streak, stria, striate, striation, stripe, stud, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, suchness, suggestion, suspicion, system, tattoo, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tessellate, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, thread, tincture, tinge, tone, touch, trace, trick, type, variegate, veinlet, vena cava, venation, venule, wafer, way, well, wellspring

Etymology
From <  <  vena:; probable origin a pipe or channel for conveying a fluid < vehere:.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: وريد,
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: zain
 * Catalan: vena
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 靜脈, 静脉
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: верь сан (ver san)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: φλέβα
 * Ancient: φλέψ
 * Hebrew: וריד (vrid)


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Maltese:
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuisle
 * Serbian: вена/vena
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సిర (sira)
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: νεύρο


 * Russian:
 * Swedish: närv


 * Finnish:


 * Russian:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Russian: прожилка
 * Swedish: ådra

Related terms

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

Anagrams

 * nevi
 * vine

Noun

 * 1) wine

Verb
vein



Anagrams

 * evin, vien

Noun

 * 1) lament