Definitions of VEIL [ɪl]

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Definition of 'VEIL'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) veil
a piece of opaque, transparent, or mesh material worn over the face for concealment or protection or to enhance the appearance.

2.  veil
a piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders on each side of the face, forming a part of a headdress, as of a nun or a bride.

3.  veil
something that covers, separates, screens, or conceals.

4.  veil
a membrane that covers many immature mushrooms and leaves distinctive remnants after the growing mushroom breaks it apart.

5.  veil
a caul.

6. (v.t.) veil
to cover or conceal with or as if with a veil.

7. (v.i.) veil
to don or wear a veil.

Definition of 'VEIL'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) head covering, veil
a garment that covers the head and face

2. (noun) veil, velum
a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

3. (noun) caul, veil, embryonic membrane
the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

4. (verb) humeral veil, veil
a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl

5. (verb) veil
to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
"women in Afghanistan veil their faces"

6. (verb) obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
"a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"

Definition of 'VEIL'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) veil
a transparent piece of clothing worn over a woman's head and face
to wear a veil; a wedding veil

Definition of 'VEIL'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) VEIL
something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face

2. (noun) VEIL
a cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense

3. (noun) VEIL
the calyptra of mosses

4. (noun) VEIL
a membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum

5. (noun) VEIL
a covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil

6. (noun) VEIL
same as Velum, 3

7. (noun) VEIL
to throw a veil over; to cover with a veil

8. (noun) VEIL
fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal

Translation of 'VEIL'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of thin cloth worn over the face or head to hide, cover, or protect it Some women wear veils for religious reasons, to prevent strangers from seeing their faces; a veil of mist over the mountains; a veil of secrecy.
Afrikaans: sluier	Arabic: حِجاب	Bulgarian: воал
Brazilian: véu	Czech: závoj	German: der Schleier
Danish: slør	Greek: πέπλο	Spanish: velo
Estonian: loor	Farsi: روبنده	Finnish: huntu
French: voile	Hebrew: הִינוּמָה, רְעָלָה	Hindi: घूंघट
Croatian: veo	Hungarian: fátyol	Indonesian: cadar
Icelandic: (andlits)blæja	Italian: velo	Japanese: ベール
Korean: 베일, (특히 여자의) 면사포, 덮개, 씌우개	Lithuanian: vualis,šydas, skraistė	Latvian: plīvurs; šķidrauts; aizse
Malay: vel; tudung; purdah; selu	Dutch: sluier	Norwegian: slør
Polish: woal(ka), kwef, zasłona	Persian: روبنده	Pashto: پرده ( حجاب )، پلو، مخ پټ
Portuguese: véu	Romanian: văl, voal	Russian: вуаль;пелена; покров
Slovak: závoj	Slovenian: tančica	Serbian: veo
Swedish: slöja, flor	Thai: ผ้าคลุมหน้า หรือศีรษะ	Turkish: peçe, tül, duvak
Taiwanese: 面紗	Ukrainian: покривало; вуаль	Urdu: پردہ، نقاب
Vietnamese: mạng che mặt; khăn trùm đ	Chinese: 面纱
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