A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart:
— All veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood.

synonyms: vena, venous blood vessel.

Roget 820: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis^†, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness^†, propension^†, propendency^†; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy etc. (love) 897.    soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis [Lat.]; secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart; inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone.    passion, pervading spirit; ruling passion, master passion; furore^†; fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul.    energy, fervor, fire, force.    ... show more

Roget 176: tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus [Lat.], nisus [Lat.]; liability etc. 177; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy^†, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift etc. (direction) 278; conduciveness, conducement^†; applicability etc. (utility) 644; subservience etc. (instrumentality) 631.    ... show more

Roget 203: narrowness etc. adj.; closeness, exility^†; exiguity etc. (little) 193.    line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein.    monolayer; epitaxial deposition [Eng.].    thinness etc. adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency^†, marcor^†.    shaving, slip etc. (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks^†, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.    middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut^†, ghat^†, pass; ravine etc. 198.    narrowing, coarctation^†, angustation^†, tapering; contraction etc. 195.    ... show more

Roget 205: filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle^†, vein; hair, capillament^†, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet^†, venula^†, venule^†.    wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.    strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.    beard etc. (roughness) 256; ramification; strand.    ... show more

Roget 602: willingness, voluntariness etc. adj.^†; willing mind, heart.    disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent etc. (turn of mind) 820; penchant etc. (desire) 865; aptitude etc. 698.    docility, docibleness^†; persuasibleness^†, persuasibility^†; pliability etc. (softness) 324.    geniality, cordiality; goodwill; alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness; eagerness etc. (desire) 865.    asset etc. 488; compliance etc. 762; pleasure etc. (will) 600; gratuitous service.    labor of love; volunteer, volunteering.    ... show more

Roget 636: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.    stock in trade, supply; heap etc. (collection) 72; treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche [Fr.].    crop, harvest, mow, vintage.    store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay etc. (provision) 637.    storehouse, storeroom, storecloset^†; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory^†, repertory; repertorium^†; promptuary^†, warehouse, entrepot [Fr.], magazine; buttery, larder, spence^†; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom^†; thesaurus; bank etc. (treasury) 802; armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery^†, menagerie.    reservoir, cistern, aljibar^†, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer^†.    budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer etc. (receptacle) 191.    conservation; storing etc. v.; storage.    ... show more

Dutch: vena, bloedader, ader
Polish: żyła, naczynie żylne

A distinctive style or manner.

Any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ.

synonym: nervure.

Polish: nerw, żyłka

A layer of ore between layers of rock.

synonym: mineral vein.

Dutch: ader, ertsader, ertslaag, mijnader
Polish: żyła

One of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect.

synonym: nervure.

Make a veinlike pattern.