thread vein
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thread vein — thread ,vein noun count a very small red line on your face where the skin is damaged … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
thread vein — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms thread vein : singular thread vein plural thread veins a very small red line on your face where the skin is damaged … English dictionary
thread — [thred] n. [ME threde < OE thræd (akin to Ger draht) < base of thrawan, to twist: see THROW] 1. a) a light, fine, stringlike length of material made up of two or more fibers or strands of spun cotton, flax, silk, etc. twisted together and… … English World dictionary
vein — [n1] mood, tone attitude, bent, character, characteristic, complexion, dash, disposition, faculty, fashion, fettle, hint, humor, line, manner, mind, mode, nature, note, spice, spirit, strain, streak, style, suggestion, suspicion, tang, temper,… … New thesaurus
vein — noun 1 tube carrying blood in the body ADJECTIVE ▪ blue ▪ A blue vein throbbed in his forehead. ▪ broken (esp. BrE), spider (esp. AmE), thread (esp. BrE), varicose … Collocations dictionary
vein — veinal, adj. veinless, adj. veinlike, adj. /vayn/, n. 1. one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart. 2. (loosely) any blood vessel. 3. one of the riblike thickenings that form the… … Universalium
vein — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. blood vessel, rib (of a leaf); streak, stripe, marbling; [ore] deposit, lode, seam, ledge, leader; thread; bent, humor, disposition, temper. See filament, feeling, narrowness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A … English dictionary for students
thread — n. & v. n. 1 a a spun out filament of cotton, silk, or glass etc.; yarn. b a length of this. 2 a thin cord of twisted yarns used esp. in sewing and weaving. 3 anything regarded as threadlike with reference to its continuity or connectedness (the… … Useful english dictionary
vein — Synonyms and related words: affectation, aorta, arteriole, artery, attitude, band, bar, bed, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blood vessel, blotch, body build, bonanza, brand, capillary, carotid, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics,… … Moby Thesaurus
thread — 1. noun 1) a needle and thread Syn: cotton, filament, fiber; yarn, string, twine 2) literary the Fraser was a thread of silver below them Syn: streak, strand, stripe, line, strip … Thesaurus of popular words
