| 单词 | veil |
| 释义 | veil (once / 152 pages) nv A veil is a cloth covering the head and face, mostly worn by women. Wedding veils are drawn back when the groom hears, "Now you may kiss the bride." (Or else the groom gets a gauzy mouthful.) This is a technical term for part of an embryo or mushroom, but it’s usually a covering for the head and face. Priests wear veils during certain Catholic ceremonies, and a grieving widow might wear a veil at her husband's funeral. To veil also means to conceal something. You could veil your attempt to steal some cookies by turning the TV up loud as a distraction. When something — like a lie — is "thinly veiled," people can see right through it. WORD FAMILYveil: unveil, veiled, veiling, veils+/unveil: unveiled, unveiling, unveils/unveiling: unveilings/veiling: veilings USAGE EXAMPLESThe cocktail hat was characterized by a small silhouette, feathers, a veil and sparkles. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) The show also contains 11 of Stout’s graphite drawings, whose finely textured images range through the gray spectrum and seem almost veiled. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Flashbacks whisper and boom, taunt and explain, push away veils and illuminate fissures. Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) 1n a garment that covers the head and face Syn|Hypo|Hyper head covering chadar, chaddar, chador, chuddar a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women face veila piece of more-or-less transparent material that covers the face yashmac, yashmakthe face veil worn by Muslim women niqaba face veil covering the lower part of the face (up to the eyes) worn by observant Muslim women garment an article of clothing 2n a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl Syn|Hyper humeral veil vestment gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy 3n the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) Syn|Hyper caul, embryonic membrane fetal membrane any membrane that functions for the protection or nourishment or respiration or excretion of a developing fetus 4n a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms Syn|Hypo|Hyper velum universal veil membrane initially completely investing the young sporophore of various mushrooms that is ruptured by growth; represented in the mature mushroom by a volva around lower part of stem and scales on upper surface of the cap partial veilmembrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap cortinaa cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils plant part, plant structure any part of a plant or fungus 5v to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil women in Afghanistan veil their faces Ant|Hyper unveil remove the veil from conceal, hide prevent from being seen or discovered 6v make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing a veiled threat Syn|Hypo|Hyper blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure efface, obliterate remove completely from recognition or memory mystify make mysterious alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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