vein
vena
definition
noun
This puts the full weight of your uterus on your back and on the major vein that carries blood between your lower body and heart.
any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart.
Quartz is the dominant mineral in veins in siliceous rocks, calcite in limestones, and gypsum in gypsiferous sediments.
a fracture in rock containing a deposit of minerals or ore and typically having an extensive course underground.
translation of 'vein'
noun
vena,
fibra,
veta,
rasgo,
filón,
hebra
example
United have hit a rich 'vein' of form
Cautious balanced funds in this 'vein' generally outperform zero-risk savings or investments by a significant 2 or 3 per cent.
They were deposited by a hydrothermal 'vein' cutting granite, which was later eroded exposing surface ore.
In a similar 'vein' one can't help thinking most people would be better off forgetting about lifestyles and getting a life.
Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace was getting popular as a newspaper strip and in comic books so they asked Mayer to come up with something in a similar 'vein' .
While arguing a case, the Advocate General, in a lighter 'vein' , said that if income tax defaulters are detained under the Goondas Act, most of his friends would be inside prison.
In this 'vein' , General Motors has adopted podcasting to promote several of their product lines.
In a different 'vein' Abu Tammam wrote most of his verses about historical events.
The principal 'vein' is the mother lode, now a figure of speech as well as the name of one of the most famous deposits of the Californian Gold Rush.
He spoke in similar 'vein' to a meeting of generals on 30 March 1941, when, according to the abbreviated record of General Halder, Hitler said.
I don't have any evidence, but it seems that many types of humor may in fact generally anger him to the point of bursting a 'vein' or two.
His most characteristic paintings are in an extremely uninhibited and agitated Expressionist 'vein' , with strident colours and violent brushwork applied with very thick impasto.
Just behind the mitral valve, there is a vein called the coronary sinus, a large 'vein' in the heart that normally drains all of the blood from the coronary arteries.
It's been argued by aficionados that within Leonard Cohen's melancholic work is a thick 'vein' of comedy.
Rarely the tumor may involve the renal 'vein' , vena cava, and extrarenal soft tissues.
The anterior wing margin, delimited by the L1 wing 'vein' , is composed of a triple row of sensory bristles.
In a similar 'vein' , while the weather was good news for some attractions - both paid-for and free - others were badly hit as both visitors and Scots headed outdoors.
At first sight the most remarkable mineral of the 'vein' is villiaumite.
In a similar 'vein' , transparent quality testing and other compare-with-reality tests can help keep opinions grounded.
Well, I think he tapped into a 'vein' of discontent among the American people.
If the embolus is in a 'vein' , the tube system widens along the direction of the blood flow, so a small embolus doesn't do much harm until it gets through the heart (after which it enters an artery).
Not necessarily as instantly watchable as the now-infamous ‘Wife Swap’, but still in a similar 'vein' of fish-out-of-water scenarios.
There's a really interesting post in a similar 'vein' on confusedkid.com too.
Hushing, for example was the technique of using water to wash away the soil and surface debris to reveal the 'vein' of mineral below and it was used extensively in the Dales.
The ads display black and white photos of the party's Legco candidates taken from a video portraying its members in a similar 'vein' to the fictional presidential cabinet in the TV series.
I felt his lips at my 'vein' , then his teeth, and all I could do was cry.
Barber contented himself to work in general a rather conservative 'vein' , which owes a lot to Brahms's choral music.
In a similar 'vein' , it is worth asking whether companies really are acting responsibly in withdrawing their investments from developing economies with corrupt governments.
he managed to tap into the thick 'vein' of discontent to his own advantage
In the same 'vein' as concrete support, fathers responded to the question about help or support they had received by talking about the child care the program offered.
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