vein

• acceptation
• address
• archaism
• attitude
• bent
• capillary
• character
• characteristic
• colloquialism
• complexion
• connotation
• course
• current
• dash
• delivery
• denotation
• disposition
• duct
• elocution
• expression
• faculty
• fashion
• fettle
• follicle
• hair
• hint
• humor
• idiom
• line
• locution
• lode
• manner
• mind
• mode
• nature
• nerve
• note
• phraseology
• regionalism
• seam
• spice
• spirit
• strain
• stratum
• streak
• stripe
• style
• suggestion
• suspicion
• tang
• temper
• temperament
• tenor
• thread
• tinge
• tone
• touch
• trace
• turn
• venation
• wave
• way

• blandness
• dullness
• inability
• information
• lot

• noun
  1. A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
  2. (in plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
  3. In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
  4. The nervure of an insect’s wing.
  5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
  6. A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
  7. A style, tendency, or quality.
  8. A fissure, cleft or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
• verb
  1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.

• He felt a throbbing pain in his temple, a sign of tension in his vein.
• The miner discovered a rich gold vein deep underground.
• Her argument ran in the same vein as his, emphasizing personal responsibility.
• The doctor inserted the needle into the patient's arm vein to draw blood.
• The artist's new collection explores creativity in a different vein than her previous work.

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