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語源

From 中期英語 veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).

発音

• enPR: vān, IPA: /veɪn/
• 異形同音異義語: vain, vane
• 韻: -eɪn

名詞

vein (plural veins)

1. (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

   Hyponyms: deep vein, perforator vein, superficial vein

   The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:

     An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,
     And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
     Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made,
     Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]

2. (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
3. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
4. (zoology) 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.
   1. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
6. (figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.

   in the same vein

   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue:

     He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.

   • 2006, Matt Bellamy, “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:

     Come ride with me
     Through the veins of history,
     I'll show you how God
     Falls asleep on the job

7. (figurative) A style, tendency, or quality.

   The play is in a satirical vein.

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins

   • 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands:

     Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.

8. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     down to the veins of earth

   • 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

     I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins

同意語

• (anatomy): vena

下位語

• nervure

派生語

関連する語

• venation
• venous

動詞

vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)

1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
   • 1853, Henry William Herbert, chapter 18, in The Roman Traitor‎, volume II, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, page 204:

     […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]

   • 1920, Melville Davisson Post, chapter 14, in The Sleuth of St. James’s Square‎:

     “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”

参考

• artery
• blood vessel
• capillary
• circulatory system
• phlebitis
• vena cava

Further reading

• vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “vein”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vein”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “vein”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• nevi, veni-, Vien, vine, Vine

形容詞

vein

1. vain (worthless, useless)
2. vain (futile, ineffectual)
3. unfounded, false, misleading
4. (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible

別の表記

• veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine

派生した語

• English: vain
• Scots: vane, vain, vaine

名詞

vein (uncountable)

1. something that is worthless or futile
2. idleness, triviality

別の表記

• weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)

派生した語

• English: vain

参照

• “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

vein (plural veines)

1. alternative form of veine (“vein”)

語源 3

副詞

vein

1. alternative form of fain