Meaning of veil | Babel Free

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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.
2. 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
3. To wear a veil.
4. Anything that partially obscures a clear view.
   figuratively
5. Anything that partially obscures a clear view
6. take the veil, to become a nun.
7. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
8. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense
9. A deceptive outward appearance:cloak, color, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, façade, face, false colors, front, gloss, guise, mask, masquerade, pretense, pretext, semblance, show, veneer, window-dressing.
10. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)
11. 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. sluier حِجاب воал véu závoj der Schleier slør πέπλοvelo loor روبنده huntu voileהינומה, רעלה घूंघट veo fátyol cadar (andlits)blæja velo ベール 베일, (특히 여자의) 면사포, 덮개, 씌우개, 가리개, 칸막이, 포장, 휘장, 장막 vualis, šydas, skraistė plīvurs; šķidrauts; aizsegs vel; tudung; purdah; selubung slu...
12. The calyptra of mosses.
13. The calyptra of mosses
14. to cover with a veil. versluier يُغَطّي بِحِجاب، يَحْجِب، يَسْتُر забулвам cobrir com véu zahalit závojem verschleiern tilsløre καλύπτω με πέπλο velar, cubrir con un velo looritama روبنده زدن hunnuttaa voiler לְכַסוֹת בְּהִינוּמָה/רְעָלָה घूंघट करना prekriti velom (le)fátyoloz memakai cadar hylja blæju velare, ベールでおおう 베일로 가리다 pridengti vualiu/skraiste aizplīvurot; aizsegt memakai purdah versluierentilslørezasłonić, zawoalować پټول، پوښل، په پټونى پټول: څيره اچول cobrir com véu a învălui вуали...
15. velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
16. A length of cloth worn over the head, shoulders, and often the face, especially by women.
17. A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
18. The part of a nun's headdress that frames the face and falls over the shoulders.
19. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
20. Any of various cloth head coverings worn by Muslim women.
21. An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
22. A piece of light fabric hung to separate or conceal what is behind it; a curtain.
23. That which separates the living and the spirit world.
    figuratively
24. Biology A membranous covering or part, as that on the developing fruiting body of certain mushrooms; a velum.
    Biology

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Examples

“The veil of the temple was rent in twain.”

“She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.”

“Above the smoky veil over the town rose Akerhus fort, with its towers standing out in sharp relief against the mirror of the fjord, beyond where the Nœs point loomed as a black shadow.”

“[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.”

“Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.”

“a nun's veil”

“a paten veil”

“an altar veil”

“The genus Amanita has both a volva and a veil; the spores are white, and the stem is easily separable from the cap.”

“"I have heard most furious bigots talking through the veil." "So have I, for that matter," said Malone, "and in this very room."”

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