📖 V — The English dictionary · page 5

vaunt — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To boast or brag proudly about something.↗ Example: And the LORD said unto Gideon: 'The people that are with thee are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying: mine own hand hath saved me.↗ (Prophets JDG.7.2, JPS 1917)↗

veal — Everyday, meaning 1: Veal is the meat from a young calf (a baby cow), used as food.↗ Example: Wiener schnitzel is made from thin slices of veal.↗ · The restaurant served veal with mushrooms.↗ · Veal is paler and softer than beef.↗ · Some families do not eat veal for animal welfare reasons.↗ · The cookbook had a recipe for veal stew.↗ · Veal comes from calves, and beef comes from older cattle.↗ · The veal is roasted, and the chickens boiled.’↗

veau — Everyday, meaning 1: (French) «Veau» is the French word for a calf (a baby cow), and also for veal, the meat of a calf.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It sounds like «voh» to an English ear (rhymes with «go», with a «v»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: It is not an English word; English took «veal» from the old French form of this word.↗ Example: In French, «le veau» means «the calf».↗ · The French menu said «blanquette de veau» — a creamy veal stew.↗ · «Veau» sounds like «voh».↗ · In our French farm song, «la vache et le veau» means «the cow and the calf».↗ · English «veal» comes from the old French word that became «veau».↗ · My aunt in Paris ordered «escalope de veau».↗

veg — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, NZ, informal) Veg is short for vegetable or vegetables: meat and two veg, fruit and veg.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To veg (out) is to relax and do nothing much, for example lying on the sofa.↗ Example: Eat your veg or there's no pudding!↗ · We bought fruit and veg at the market.↗ · Sunday lunch is meat and two veg.↗ · After school I just want to veg out in front of the TV.↗ · She vegged out on the beach all day.↗ · Try to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day.↗

vegan — Everyday, meaning 1: A vegan is a person who does not eat or use anything that comes from animals: no meat, fish, milk, cheese, eggs or honey, and often no leather or wool.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Vegan (adjective) means containing no animal products: «vegan food», «a vegan cake».↗ Example: My aunt is a vegan.↗ · Is this cake vegan?↗ · The café has vegan options.↗ · Vegans don't eat eggs or cheese.↗ · We made a vegan curry with chickpeas.↗ · He went vegan last year.↗ · Oat milk is a vegan drink.↗

vegetable — Everyday, meaning 1: A vegetable is a plant or part of a plant we eat, like a carrot, potato, cabbage or bean.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Vegetable can mean made from plants: vegetable oil.↗ Example: She bought 3 carrots and 5 potatoes.↗ How many vegetables did she buy?↗ · The garden has 4 rows of vegetables.↗ · Vegetables cost 2 dollars a kilo.↗ · He ate 2 portions of vegetables a day.↗ · Eat lots of fruit and vegetables to stay healthy.↗ · A carrot is a root vegetable.↗ · We grow vegetables in the school garden.↗ · Wash vegetables before you eat them.↗ · He was carrying a huge basket of vegetables.↗

vegetarian — Everyday, meaning 1: A vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat or fish.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Vegetarian food has no meat or fish in it.↗ Example: My best friend is vegetarian, so we made veggie burgers.↗ · The school has a vegetarian lunch every day.↗ · Vegetarians do not eat meat or fish.↗ · Is this pizza vegetarian?↗ · My aunt went vegetarian to help animals.↗ · Beans and lentils give vegetarians protein.↗ · Out of 30 children, 6 chose the vegetarian meal.↗

vegetarianism — Everyday, meaning 1: Vegetarianism is the practice of not eating meat or fish.↗ Example: Vegetarianism is popular in our school.↗ · My aunt chose vegetarianism to protect animals.↗ · Vegetarianism means no meat or fish.↗ · Some religions encourage vegetarianism.↗ · Vegetarianism can be very healthy.↗ · He read about vegetarianism for his project.↗

vegetation — Everyday, meaning 1: Vegetation means all the plants that grow in a place, such as trees, bushes, grass and flowers, taken together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medicine, rare) It can also mean a growth on a part of the body, but pupils will meet only the plant meaning.↗ Example: The rainforest is full of thick green vegetation.↗ · There is very little vegetation in the desert.↗ · Goats ate all the vegetation on the hill.↗ · The explorers cut their way through dense vegetation.↗ · Vegetation along the river bank stops the soil washing away.↗ · After the bushfire the vegetation slowly grew back.↗ · The map showed the different types of vegetation.↗ · Cold winds mean the tundra has only low vegetation.↗ · While passing that desert he had to journey for a couple of days through a sandy plain, with no signs of life or vegetation.↗

veggie — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A vegetable.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK, Australia) A vegetarian, someone who does not eat meat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective, informal) Vegetarian: a veggie burger.↗ Example: Eat up your veggies before pudding.↗ · I'm veggie, so I'll have the bean burger.↗ · The café has a good veggie menu.↗ · We grew veggies in the school garden.↗ · Dad chopped 3 carrots and 2 peppers: 5 veggies in all.↗ · Veggie sausages are made from vegetables, beans or soya.↗

vehement — Everyday, meaning 1: Vehement means showing very strong feeling, especially when arguing or disagreeing: «a vehement protest».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A vehement person speaks or acts with great force and passion.↗ Example: She was vehement that she had not broken the window.↗ · There was vehement opposition to closing the library.↗ · The two teams argued in vehement voices about the penalty.↗ · His denial was so vehement that we believed him.↗ · The villagers made a vehement protest against the new road.↗ · My little brother is vehement that broccoli is poisonous.↗

vehemently — Everyday, meaning 1: Vehemently means with very strong feeling, especially when disagreeing or denying something.↗ Example: He vehemently denied stealing the cookies.↗ · She vehemently opposed the plan.↗ · The children argued vehemently about the rules.↗ · The mayor vehemently refused.↗ · They vehemently defended their friend.↗ · He shook his head vehemently.↗

vehicle — Everyday, meaning 1: A vehicle is something that carries people or things from place to place, like a car, bus, truck, train or bike.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A vehicle can also be a way of getting an idea across, like a story used as a vehicle for a lesson.↗ Example: There are 24 vehicles in the parking lot.↗ · Each vehicle has 4 wheels.↗ · A ferry can carry 12 vehicles on each trip.↗ · 5 vehicles left the garage.↗ · Fire engines and ambulances are emergency vehicles.↗ · No vehicles are allowed in the park.↗ · Watch for vehicles before you cross the road.↗ · An electric vehicle runs on a battery.↗ · The clumsy vehicle stopped at the gate of the town; all the places had been taken, for there were twelve passengers in the coach.↗

veil — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of thin cloth worn over the head or face, for example by a bride at a wedding or by some women for religious reasons.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that covers or hides something, like a veil of mist or a veil of secrecy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To cover or hide something partly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (church) The head covering worn by nuns, and the curtain in the Temple described in the Bible.↗ Example: The bride wore a long white veil.↗ · A veil of mist covered the hills in the morning.↗ · The nun wore a black veil over her hair.↗ · My aunt lifted her veil to kiss the groom.↗ · The plan was kept under a veil of secrecy.↗ · His words were a veiled warning to stop.↗ · Clouds veiled the moon, so the night was very dark.↗ · Some Muslim women wear a veil as part of their faith.↗ · Effie pulled off her dragonproof veil.↗ · the ark, and the staves thereof, the ark-cover, and the veil of the screen; (Torah EXO.35.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil; (Torah EXO.40.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.↗ (Torah EXO.34.33, JPS 1917)↗ · the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils; (Prophets ISA.3.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.↗ (Writings SNG.6.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon.↗ (Writings 2CH.3.14, JPS 1917)↗

vein — Everyday, meaning 1: A vein is a tube in the body that carries blood back to the heart.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A vein is a thin line on a leaf or an insect wing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A vein is a thin layer of a mineral or metal in rock, like a vein of gold.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «In the same vein» means in the same style or way.↗ Example: Veins carry blood back to the heart.↗ · You can see the blue veins on your wrist.↗ · The nurse took blood from a vein in my arm.↗ · Look at the veins on this leaf.↗ · The miners found a vein of silver.↗ · Arteries carry blood away from the heart, and veins carry it back.↗ · The second story was written in the same vein.↗ · A dragonfly's wings are full of tiny veins.↗ · What he saw froze the blood in his veins.↗ · Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein.↗ (Torah GEN.32.32, JPS 1917)↗

velcro — Everyday, meaning 1: Velcro is a fastener made of two strips: one with tiny hooks and one with tiny loops, which stick together when pressed and pull apart with a ripping sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To velcro something is to fasten it with Velcro.↗ Example: My little brother has Velcro shoes because he can't tie laces yet.↗ · Velcro was inspired by burrs stuck on a dog's fur.↗ · One side of Velcro has hooks and the other has loops.↗ · The Velcro strap on my bag makes a loud ripping sound.↗ · Astronauts use Velcro to stop things floating away.↗ · Look at Velcro under a magnifying glass to see the hooks.↗

veld — Everyday, meaning 1: Wide, open grassland in southern Africa, with few trees, especially in South Africa.↗ Example: Zebras graze on the African veld.↗ · The Leopard hunted on the High Veldt.↗ · The veld turned green after the rains.↗ · Farmers keep cattle on the veld.↗ · We read about the animals of the veld in geography.↗ · The sun set over the wide, open veld.↗

veldt — Everyday, meaning 1: The wide, open grassland of southern Africa, with few trees, where animals like zebras, giraffes and antelope live.↗ Example: Zebras and antelope graze on the veldt.↗ · The Leopard lived on the High Veldt, which was sandy-yellow-brownish.↗ · Long dry grass covered the veldt as far as we could see.↗ · The veld is a kind of grassland in South Africa.↗ · In the dry season, the veldt turns brown.↗ · The Giraffe and the Zebra left the veldt for the forest.↗

vellum — Everyday, meaning 1: Vellum is thick, smooth writing material made from the skin of an animal, used for old books and documents.↗ Example: The monk wrote the story on vellum.↗ · The old book had pages of vellum.↗ · Vellum lasts for many years.↗

velociraptor — Everyday, meaning 1: A velociraptor was a small, fast, meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia and China; it ran on two legs, had feathers and a large curved claw on each foot.↗ Example: A velociraptor had a big curved claw on each foot.↗ · Real velociraptors were about the size of a turkey.↗ · Fossils show that velociraptors had feathers.↗ · The name velociraptor means «swift thief».↗ · A velociraptor fossil was found locked in a fight with another dinosaur.↗ · In the film the velociraptors were much bigger than real ones.↗ · The velociraptor ran on two legs and held its tail out straight.↗ · Birds are distant relatives of dinosaurs like the velociraptor.↗

velocity — Everyday, meaning 1: Velocity is speed in a particular direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In everyday use, velocity means speed, especially high speed.↗ Example: The ball left the bat at a high velocity.↗ · Velocity is speed in a given direction.↗ · A rocket needs a huge velocity to escape Earth.↗ · The river's velocity was faster in the middle.↗ · We measured the velocity of the toy car in metres per second.↗ · Wind velocity was 50 kilometres per hour from the north.↗

velodrome — Everyday, meaning 1: A building or arena with a steeply sloping oval track for bicycle racing.↗ Example: The cyclists raced around the velodrome at great speed.↗ · We watched the track cycling at the velodrome.↗ · The velodrome track is steep at the corners.↗ · The London velodrome was built for the 2012 Olympics.↗ · My cousin trains at the velodrome every Saturday.↗ · The crowd cheered as the riders crossed the line in the velodrome.↗

velvet — Everyday, meaning 1: A soft cloth with a thick, short, fluffy surface on one side, often used for fancy clothes, curtains and cushions.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (figurative) Something very soft and smooth, like a voice or skin.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The soft furry skin on a deer's new antlers.↗ Example: The queen wore a long velvet cloak.↗ · The theatre had heavy red velvet curtains.↗ · The puppy's ears felt like velvet.↗ · Mum made a red velvet cake for my birthday.↗ · The young deer's antlers were covered in velvet.↗ · She sang in a soft, velvety voice.↗ · The King himself has not such a velvet coat.↗