Veining
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Veining is a noun meaning An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings.
Meaning
An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of vein
Example Sentences
His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab. Beauty: it curves: curves are beauty.
Surrounding, a system of marble paneling applies to the walls, as we know wood. Sheets of stone, cut and cut again so that the veining of each piece may form symmetrical pattern with its neighbor, alternate with bands of other marbles set in delicately notched beveling.
1890, Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, New York: Lovell, Corvell & Co., 1891, p. 32, He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf—saw the very insects upon them, the locusts, the brilliant-bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig.
Word Forms
- veinings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vena, nervure, veinery, venation, veinage, vasculation.
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