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vee|viː|
The name of the letter V, used to denote things having or arranged in this shape.
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-M. 269 Vee, the junction of two underground roadways meeting in the form of a V. 1933Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVII. 845 This..can easily be achieved by making the vee of the hull sufficiently deep. 1939War Illustr. 29 Dec. 538/2 A Squadron of fighters or bombers will fly in a ‘vee’ with three Flights of three machines each. 1950B. Pym Some Tame Gazelle i. 9, I must have something to cover up the neck of my green frock. Perhaps it would have been better if I hadn't tried to alter it to a Vee. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xiii. 222 A tall man with..a shock of receding curly hair in a Vee. 1970Commercial Motor 25 Sept. 97 The trend in diesel engine development in this country is now clearly towards vees and/or turbocharging. 1977‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon vi. 93 At some stage she stood in the vee with her back to the parapet..and lost her balance and went headlong.
b. attrib. and Comb., as vee aerial, vee antenna, vee belt, vee block, vee formation, vee joint, vee neck(line), vee thread; vee-necked, vee-shaped adjs.; vee engine, an engine with two lines of cylinders inclined so as to form a V. Cf. V 2 b.
1939Amat. Radio Handbk. 158/2 Such an arrangement..is known as the RCA Vee aerial.
1950A. L. Albert Electr. Communication (ed. 3) xii. 481 (caption) The non⁓resonant Vee antenna is composed of two wires several wavelengths long, and connected to ground through terminating resistors. 1981R. S. Elliott Antenna Theory & Design ix. 436 The Vee antenna..is a simplification of the rhombic, with legs 3 and 4 removed.
1937Motor Catal. (E. London Rubber Co. Ltd.) 39/2 A range of twelve Romac New-Vee Fan Belts will fit 194 popular cars. 1971Power Farming Mar. 44/2 Machines..lift the root by gripping the leafy top growth of the plant between a pair of..rubber vee-belts.
1893J. G. Horner Princ. Fitting v. 64 The vee blocks are employed chiefly for supporting shafts and circular spindle-like work generally. 1975Bram & Downs Manuf. Technol. i. 27 Place the component in a suitable vee-block and slowly rotate it about the diameter to be checked.
1957J. M. Bruce Brit. Aeroplanes 1914–18 213 It was one of the first aeroplanes to have the then-new Rolls-Royce Condor twelve-cylinder vee engine. 1972Practical Motorist Oct. 70/1 Vee engines have a non-return valve for the crankcase emission control system in the offside rocker cover.
1960Times Rev. Industry Nov. 18/1 Cylinders in Vee formation.
1964S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes iii. 93 Fig 17(a) shows the single vee-joint suitable for plates up to 5/8 inch in thickness. 1970Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 15 Feb. 15/4 The original interior finish has been retained. The walls of pine ‘Vee’ joint; pews, chancel and rails of Douglas fir have darkened and mellowed with age.
1970Times 24 Mar. 9/4 They are all of the same shape, vee neck front.
1973Guardian 10 Apr. 13/2 Checked vee-necked dress with contrast ribbing.
1949Sun (Baltimore) 24 Mar. 8 (Advt.), Elongated vee neckline, especially becoming to the larger woman!
1959Listener 31 Dec. 1157/2 Conditions began to take a happy turn..but, very unfortunately, they never became perfectly vee-shaped. 1964S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes i. 36 The vee-shaped grooves are accurately ground parallel and square with the outside faces.
1914E. Pull Mod. Workshop Pract. xii. 229 (heading) Vee threads. 1975Bram & Downs Manuf. Technol. iv. 120 The buttress thread combines the anti-friction advantages of the square thread with the strength of the vee thread.
Hence veed a., V-shaped.
1934Times 23 Oct. 7/4 The radiator is in a case which has a Vee'd dummy honeycomb front. 1938Times 9 Aug. 8/7 A movable section—in front of the driver—in a sloping, divided, veed screen. 1972C. Mudie Motor Boats & Boating 144 Outwardly the racing boats have developed from a heterogeneous collection towards a clean, fine lined, deep Veed fleet. |