📖 V — The English dictionary · page 8

verse — Everyday, meaning 1: Verse is writing in the form of poetry, with lines and often rhythm and rhyme.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A verse is a group of lines in a poem or song (a stanza), often followed by a chorus.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible) A verse is one short numbered part of a chapter in the Bible or other holy book.↗ Example: We sang the first verse and then the chorus.↗ · The poem has four verses.↗ · Shakespeare wrote many plays in verse.↗ · Our teacher asked us to find a Bible verse about kindness.↗ · The verse John 3:16 is famous among Christians.↗ · She can quote chapter and verse from the rule book.↗ · Free verse is poetry without rhyme.↗ · In reply the Lion spoke the second verse:↗ · This is verse 4 of Psalm civ.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · SY 2:1, 3:1, so it is interesting that in this verse the tongue is rather portrayed as one of two binary poles.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

version — Everyday, meaning 1: A version is one form of something that is a little different from other forms of it: «a new version of the game».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A version is one person's account or description of what happened: «his version of events».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A version is a story, song or film told or made again in a different way: «a modern version of Cinderella».↗ Example: The new version of the app has more levels.↗ · Tell me your version of what happened.↗ · We read a funny version of «The Three Little Pigs».↗ · I prefer the book to the film version.↗ · Update to the latest version.↗ · Each witness gave a different version.↗ · Write your own version of the poem.↗ · [10] There are various versions of this myth.↗ · A Version, Constantinople, 17 19, 8vo.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · A Version with the commentary of Rabbi Abraham (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · A Version with preface by M. ben J. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

verso — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The back side of a page or leaf in a book; the left-hand page.↗

verst — Everyday, meaning 1: A verst is an old Russian measure of distance, a little more than a kilometre.↗ Example: They walked and walked for several versts, then they grew tired.↗ · They built a bridge five versts long.↗

vertebra — Everyday, meaning 1: A vertebra is one of the small bones that are linked together to make the backbone (spine).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The vertebrae protect the spinal cord, the bundle of nerves that carries messages between the brain and the body.↗ Example: The spine is made of many small bones, each called a vertebra.↗ · A giraffe has seven vertebrae in its neck — the same number as a human.↗ · The doctor said he had cracked a vertebra in the fall.↗ · Snakes have hundreds of vertebrae.↗ · Fish are vertebrates because they have a backbone of vertebrae.↗ · We felt the bumps of our vertebrae down our backs.↗

vertebrate — Everyday, meaning 1: An animal that has a backbone (a spine), like fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.↗ Example: A dog is a vertebrate because it has a backbone.↗ · Fish, birds and frogs are all vertebrates.↗ · Humans are vertebrates.↗ · A snail is not a vertebrate.↗ · Sort these animals into vertebrates and invertebrates.↗ · Snakes are vertebrates with lots of bones in their spine.↗

vertical — Everyday, meaning 1: Vertical means going straight up and down, at a right angle to the flat ground, like a wall or a flagpole.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The vertical is a straight up-and-down line or direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In business (formal), a vertical is one kind of industry or market.↗ Example: Draw a vertical line down the middle of the page.↗ · The flagpole is vertical.↗ · The y-axis on the graph is vertical.↗ · The climber went up a vertical cliff.↗ · The letter T has one vertical line and one horizontal line.↗ · My vertical jump is 40 centimetres.↗

vertically — Everyday, meaning 1: In an up-and-down direction, straight up, at a right angle to the ground.↗ Example: Write the sum vertically, with the tens under the tens.↗ · The rocket rose vertically into the sky.↗ · Fold the paper vertically down the middle.↗ · The y-axis goes vertically on a graph.↗ · Rain fell vertically on the still day.↗ · Hang the poster vertically, not sideways.↗ · (joking) He's a bit vertically challenged — he can't reach the top shelf.↗

vertigo — Everyday, meaning 1: Vertigo is a dizzy feeling, as if the world is spinning or you might fall, often when you look down from a high place.↗ Example: And now Vertigo was to seize Rudy.↗ · «Seize him, indeed,» cried Vertigo; «I cannot do it.»↗

vervet — Everyday, meaning 1: A vervet is a small African monkey with a grey-green or silvery coat, a black face fringed with white fur and a long tail.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Vervets live in groups in the savannas and woodlands of eastern and southern Africa.↗ Example: A vervet monkey leapt onto the safari truck.↗ · Vervets have black faces with white fur around them.↗ · When a vervet sees an eagle, it gives a special call and everyone looks up.↗ · A troop of vervets raided the campsite for bananas.↗ · Baby vervets cling to their mothers' tummies.↗ · Vervets eat fruit, leaves, seeds and insects.↗ · Don't feed the vervets, or they will steal your lunch!↗

very — Everyday, meaning 1: Very makes a word stronger.↗ Very big means more than just big.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, very means exactly or just this one: the very same book, at the very top.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Not very means only a little: not very cold.↗ Example: It was a very hot day.↗ · The very first step is to count.↗ · She was very happy with 10 stickers.↗ · A very long rope is 40 m.↗ · Thank you very much!↗ · I live at the very end of the street.↗ · The film was not very scary.↗ · That is the very book I was looking for.↗ · It is very important to wear a seatbelt.↗ · “It is a very stupid story!↗ · And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.↗ (Torah GEN.4.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.↗ (Torah GEN.13.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.↗ (Torah GEN.21.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And there was very great gladness.↗ (Writings NEH.8.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, very few, and sojourners in it, (Writings PSA.105.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Even very dark, and no brightness in it?↗ (Prophets AMO.5.20, JPS 1917)↗

vesica — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A Latin word for the bladder, the bag in the body that holds urine.↗ Example: Postellus then gives, " intestina, vesica, arterise ", the intestines, bladder and arteries; Rittangelius gives the same.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

vessel — Everyday, meaning 1: A ship or large boat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A container for liquids, like a cup, bowl, jug or barrel (old-fashioned or formal).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tube that carries blood around the body: a blood vessel (arteries, veins and capillaries).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A tube that carries water and food in a plant.↗ Example: The fishing vessel came back to the harbour full of fish.↗ · Blood vessels carry blood all around your body.↗ · A bruise happens when tiny blood vessels break under the skin.↗ · The museum has ancient clay vessels for oil and wine.↗ · The captain steered the vessel through the storm.↗ · Veins are the vessels that carry blood back to the heart.↗ · Plants have vessels that carry water from the roots to the leaves.↗ · Meanwhile the young man’s vessel reached home in safety.↗ · the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread; (Torah EXO.39.36, JPS 1917)↗ · the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the showbread; (Torah EXO.35.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And every open vessel, which hath no covering close-bound upon it, is unclean.↗ (Torah NUM.19.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure?↗ (Prophets JER.22.28, JPS 1917)↗ · All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred.↗ (Writings EZR.1.11, JPS 1917)↗ · That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!↗ (Prophets ISA.18.2, JPS 1917)↗

vest — Everyday, meaning 1: In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a piece of underwear without sleeves worn under a shirt (in the USA called an "undershirt" or "tank top").↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the USA and Canada, a sleeveless jacket worn over a shirt (in the UK called a "waistcoat").↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A special sleeveless top that protects you or makes you easy to see.↗ e.g. "a life vest", "a high-visibility vest".↗ Example: Put on a vest; it is cold today.↗ · Everyone wears a life vest in the canoe.↗ · We wore bright yellow vests on the school trip.↗ · He wore a smart vest over his shirt at the wedding.↗ · The red team wear red vests.↗ · Police officers wear protective vests.↗ · He then went to the dead magician, took the lamp out of his vest, and bade the genie carry the palace and all in it back to China.↗

vestal — Everyday, meaning 1: A vestal, or Vestal Virgin, was a priestess in ancient Rome who kept the sacred fire of the goddess Vesta burning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Vestal means pure, chaste, as of a maiden who has given herself to a holy duty.↗ Example: On her altar burned the never-ceasing fire, which was tended by her priestesses, the Vestal Virgins.↗ · The priestesses of Vesta, called Vestales or Vestal Virgins, played a conspicuous part in these festivals.↗

vestibule — Everyday, meaning 1: A vestibule is a small hall or porch just inside the front door of a building, before you reach the main rooms.↗ Example: The gate was shut, but in front of it was an open vestibule with a sofa on either side.↗ · The Pig ran off with him through the open vestibule.↗

vestige — Everyday, meaning 1: A vestige is a small part or trace that is left of something that used to be bigger or used to exist: «the last vestiges of the castle».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, a vestigial body part is one that has lost most of its old use, like the tiny leg bones inside some whales.↗ Example: Only a vestige of the Roman wall is left in the town.↗ · There was not a vestige of food left after the party.↗ · The human tailbone is a vestige of a tail our distant ancestors had.↗ · The last vestiges of snow melted in April.↗ · Some whales have vestiges of back-leg bones inside their bodies.↗ · The custom is a vestige of an old harvest festival.↗ · The Argo was consecrated to Poseidon, and was carefully preserved for many generations till no vestige of it remained, when it was placed in the heavens as a brilliant constellation.↗

vestigial — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Describing a part of a body that is still there but has become small or useless over a very long time, such as the tiny leg bones inside some snakes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Remaining as a small trace or bit of something that used to be bigger or more important.↗ Example: Ostriches have vestigial wings that cannot lift them into the air.↗ · Whales have small vestigial leg bones inside their bodies.↗ · The human tailbone is often called a vestigial part.↗ · The kiwi has tiny vestigial wings hidden under its feathers.↗ · Scientists study vestigial organs to learn how animals changed.↗ · Only a vestigial bit of the old castle wall is left.↗

vestment — Everyday, meaning 1: A vestment is a long robe or piece of clothing worn by a priest or other church person during a religious service or ceremony.↗ Example: In ancient times the priests were distinguished by their sacerdotal vestments, and by their piety and wisdom.↗ · And he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place and put on his other vestments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering and the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.↗ (Torah LEV.16.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said unto him that was over the vestry: 'Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal.'↗ And he brought them forth vestments.↗ (Prophets 2KI.10.22, JPS 1917)↗

vestry — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A room in a church or temple where robes are kept.↗ Example: And he said unto him that was over the vestry: 'Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal.'↗ And he brought them forth vestments.↗ (Prophets 2KI.10.22, JPS 1917)↗

vesture — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Clothing or a robe; garments.↗ It is an old word.↗ Example: Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes; (Torah GEN.49.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck.↗ (Torah GEN.41.42, JPS 1917)↗ · They part my garments among them, and for my vesture do they cast lots.↗ (Writings PSA.22.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains.↗ (Writings PSA.104.6, JPS 1917)↗ · They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall pass away; (Writings PSA.102.27, JPS 1917)↗