vein

vein is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
2. noun. One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
3. noun. One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.
4. noun. A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
5. noun. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
6. noun. A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.
7. noun. A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course.
8. noun. Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein.
9. transitive verb. To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
10. noun. one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect

    Synonyms: nervure

11. noun. a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

    "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood"

    Synonyms: vena

12. noun. a distinctive style or manner

    "he continued in this vein for several minutes"

13. noun. a layer of ore between layers of rock
14. noun. any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ

    Synonyms: nervure

15. verb. make a veinlike pattern

Synonyms

nervure, vena

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in vein:

nevi, vine

Common word forms

veins, veinal, veined, veiner, veining, veinous, veinless

Words from these letters

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