| venous |
| 1. adj. Of or pertaining to veins. | |
| Her venous circulation was poor, leading to varicose veins. | |
| 2. adj. Possessing veins. | |
| It was a sample of venous tissue. | |
| 3. adj. Having numerous veins. | |
| The tree has highly serrated and venous leaves. | |
| pertaining |
| 1. v. present participle of pertain | |
| 2. n. Something that pertains; an appurtenance. | |
| pertain |
| 1. v. (intransitive) to belong to or be a part of; be an adjunct, attribute, or accessory of | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) to relate, to refer, be relevant to | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| veins |
| 1. n. plural of vein | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of vein | |
| vein |
| 1. n. (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart | |
| 2. n. (used in plural veins) The entrails of a shrimp | |
| 3. n. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle | |
| 4. n. (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing | |
| 5. n. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks | |
| 6. n. A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc. | |
| ...in the same vein... | |
| 7. n. A style, tendency, or quality. | |
| The play is in a satirical vein. | |
| 8. n. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance. | |
| 9. v. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern. | |
