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veil
[ veyl ]
noun
- a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
- a piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress of a nun.
- the life of a nun, especially a cloistered life.
- something that covers, separates, screens, or conceals:
a veil of smoke; the veil of death.
- a mask, disguise, or pretense:
to find fault under a veil of humor.
- Botany, Anatomy, Zoology. a velum.
- Mycology. a membrane that covers the immature mushroom of many fungi and breaks apart as the mushroom expands, leaving distinctive remnants on the cap, stalk, or stalk base.
- Scot. and North England. a caul.
verb (used with object)
- to cover or conceal with or as with a veil:
She veiled her face in black. A heavy fog veiled the shoreline.
- to hide the real nature of; mask; disguise:
to veil one's intentions.
verb (used without object)
- to don or wear a veil:
In certain Islamic countries women must veil.
veil
1/ ɪ /
noun
- a piece of more or less transparent material, usually attached to a hat or headdress, used to conceal or protect a woman's face and head
- part of a nun's headdress falling round the face onto the shoulders
- something that covers, conceals, or separates; mask
a veil of reticence
- the veilthe life of a nun in a religious order and the obligations entailed by it
- take the veilto become a nun
- Also calledvelum botany a membranous structure, esp the thin layer of cells connecting the edge of a young mushroom cap with the stipe
- anatomy another word for caul
- See humeral veil
verb
- tr to cover, conceal, or separate with or as if with a veil
- intr to wear or put on a veil
Veil
2/ ɪ /
noun
- VeilSimone (Annie)1927FFrenchPOLITICS: stateswoman Simone ( Annie ) (simɔn). born 1927, French stateswoman; president of the European Parliament (1979–82): a survivor of Nazi concentration camps
veil
- A membranous covering or part, especially a membrane surrounding the young mushrooms of certain basidiomycete fungi. In some species the membrane (called a partial veil ) extends only from the stalk to the cap. As the cap expands, the veil breaks, leaving a ring called an annulus on the stalk and often scalelike pieces on the cap. These veil remnants are important for identifying species of mushrooms.
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
- ˈ-ˌ, adjective
- ˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- l adjective
- l adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of veil1
Word History and Origins
Origin of veil1
Idioms and Phrases
- take the veil, to become a nun.
More idioms and phrases containing veil
see draw a veil over .Example Sentences
“Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,” Kennedy said in a statement.
The Ministry of Justice has begun separating entry for men and women, plus there have been reports of men distributing flyers on buses and in Umayyad Mosque in Damascus asking women to wear full-faced veils.
Piastri suggested to the team that he felt he had the pace to beat Verstappen - a thinly veiled request to be let past.
Instead, they suggest, “Trump tends to heavily rely upon thinly veiled speech codes known as ’dog whistles’ to implicitly refer to them.
The veil between her stage persona and her private life also covers her political opinions.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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