vein

1. 1.

   make a veinlike pattern

   Broaderstain

Other forms of vein

plural

veins·

past tense

veined·

present participle

veining·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vein

What does vein mean?

vein means "a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vein?

vein has 1 syllable: vein. In IPA it is /ˈveɪn/.

What is another word for vein?

Close synonyms include vena, venous blood vessel, nervure, mineral vein, nervure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vein a common word?

vein is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with vein?

2 words rhyme with vein. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.