## Meanings
1. One of the tubes in your body that carry blood back to the heart.
2. A particular style, mood, or quality of something.
3. A layer of a mineral or metal that runs through rock.
4. To mark something with veins or a pattern like veins.

## Examples
- The nurse found a vein in his arm and took a blood sample.
- The play is written in a satirical vein.
- The miners discovered a rich vein of gold.
- Thin streaks of marble veined the polished floor.

## Synonyms
- vena

## Derived Forms
- veined
- veinless
- veinlet
- veinlike
- veinstone
- veiny

## Related Forms
- venation
- venous

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: veyne
- Root: veine
- Root: vēna

## Etymology
From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).

## AI Etymology
Vein is from Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder). The historical line also includes Middle English veyne, xno veine, Latin vēna. In present-day use, it can mean one of the tubes in your body that carry blood back to the heart, or a particular style, mood, or quality of something. Derived formations include veined, veinless, veinlet, veinlike, veinstone, veiny.

## Topics
- The Human Body
- Materials & Substances

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