Значення

значень: 10
  1. Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

    Vorhang

    покрыва́лоpokryválo, заве́саzavésa

    покрива́лоpokryválo, покри́вкаpokrývka, заві́саzavísa

  2. (переносно)Anything that partially obscures a clear view.

  3. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

  4. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)

    a nun's veil

    a paten veil

    Schleier

    вуа́льvuálʹ, фата́fatá

    вуа́льvuálʹ, ве́льонvélʹon, серпанокserpanok

    the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

  5. The calyptra of mosses.

  6. Velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).

  7. A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

  8. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.

  9. An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.

  10. (переносно)That which separates the living and the spirit world.

Приклади

речень: 53
  1. Is that a veiled threat?

    Це прихована загроза?

    ruЭто скрытая угроза?

  2. Donald covered himself with a veil.

  3. Was that a thinly-veiled threat?

  4. Tom made a thinly-veiled threat.

  5. It was a thinly-veiled threat.

Українська
За значеннями 2
something to hide an object:
covering for a person or thing:
Русский
За значеннями 2
something to hide an object:
covering for a person or thing:
Deutsch
За значеннями 2
something to hide an object:
covering for a person or thing:

Походження

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, vei

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.

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Форми

множина: veils
Однинаveil
Множинаveils

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Синоніми

синонімів: 5
Близькі за значенням
  • a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms:velum
  • a garment that covers the head and face:head covering
  • a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl:humeral veil
  • the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth):caulembryonic membrane

Спільнокореневі

пов’язаних слів: 16

Дивіться також

сусідні слова
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