vein

«vein» in Mova's school dictionary: a tube in the body that carries blood back to the heart — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a vein, veins)

meaning for a pupil

1) A vein is a tube in the body that carries blood back to the heart. tree →

2) A vein is a thin line on a leaf or an insect wing. tree →

3) A vein is a thin layer of a mineral or metal in rock, like a vein of gold. tree →

4) «In the same vein» means in the same style or way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the body, veins carry blood back to the heart, while arteries carry blood away from the heart. Veins look blue or green through the skin. In plant science, leaf veins carry water and food. In geography and history, miners followed veins of gold or coal. Phrases: «in the same vein», «a vein of gold».

examples

• Veins carry blood back to the heart. tree →
• You can see the blue veins on your wrist. tree →
• The nurse took blood from a vein in my arm. tree →
• Look at the veins on this leaf. tree →
• The miners found a vein of silver. tree →
• Arteries carry blood away from the heart, and veins carry it back. tree →
• The second story was written in the same vein. tree →
• A dragonfly's wings are full of tiny veins. tree →
• What he saw froze the blood in his veins. tree →

note

Countable: a vein, veins. Homophones: «vain» (too proud of your looks) and «vane» (as in weather vane) sound the same. Myth: blood in veins is not blue; it is dark red, and veins just look blue through skin.

In the corpora

• Blood is always red, bright red with oxygen and dark red without, even though veins look blue through your skin.
• The veined octopus of Indonesia carries coconut shell halves and closes itself inside them when danger comes, a kind of tool use.
• The blue-green veins in blue cheese are a safe mould added on purpose; other moulds on food can be harmful.
• Veins look blue through the skin because of the way skin lets through and scatters light.
• Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red without; veins look blue because of the way skin scatters light.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vein» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.