English Dictionary

veil

/veɪl/

noun

Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

She wore a beautiful veil on her wedding day.

意味（1）

Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

The veil of the temple was rent in twain.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Anything that partially obscures a clear view.

Above the smoky veil over the town rose Akerhus fort, with its towers standing out in sharp relief against the mirror of the fjord, beyond where the Nœs point loomed as a black shadow.

意味（3）

A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.

意味（4）

A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)

a nun's veil

意味（5）

(biology) The calyptra of mosses.

意味（6）

(zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).

意味（7）

(mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

意味（8）

(mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.

意味（9）

An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.

意味（10）

(figuratively, parapsychology) That which separates the living and the spirit world.

I have heard most furious bigots talking through the veil. So have I, for that matter, said Malone, and in this very room.