English

Pronunciation
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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪl|-eɪl

Noun
en-noun

1. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.

#* 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 4.
#*: Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.

1. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
2. The calyptra of mosses.
3. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
4. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
5. Same as velum, 3.

Translations
trans-top|something to hide an object
Danish: dække n
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Portuguese: t|pt|véu|m
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trans-top|covering for a person or thing
Czech: závoj m
Danish: slør n
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ttbc|Albanian: vel m
ttbc|Catalan: vel m
ttbc|Croatian: veo m
ttbc|Dutch: sluier m
ttbc|Esperanto: vualo
ttbc|French: voile m

ttbc|German: Schleier m
ttbc|Hungarian: fátyol
ttbc|Italian: velo
ttbc|Scottish Gaelic: brat#Scottish Gaelic|brat m, sgàile f
ttbc|Spanish: velo m
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Category:Headgear

Verb
en-verb|veils|veiling|veiled|veiled

#To don, or garb with, a veil.
#To conceal as with a veil.
#:The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

Translations
trans-top|don with a veil
Danish: dække
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trans-top|conceal with a veil
Danish: sløre, skjule
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it:veil
ku:veil
hu:veil
ru:veil
fi:veil
ta:veil
te:veil
vi:veil
zh:veil

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