İngilizce-Türkçe-Almanca sözlük

1. peçe; yaşmak: She raised her veil. Peçesini açtı.
2. örtü, perde: a veil of dust toz perdesi. behind a veil of secrecy bir gizlilik perdesi ardında.
3. maske: He pursues his self-interests behind a veil of charity. Hayırseverlik maskesi altında kendi çıkarlarını kolluyor. f.
4. peçe ile örtmek.
5. gizlemek, saklamak, maskelemek. v.örterek sakla:n.örtü. örtü, yaşmak; duvak, tül; peçe. v.örterek sakla:n.örtü. i.
6. örtü, perde: a veil of dust toz perdesi. behind a veil of secrecy bir gizlilik.
7. Yumuşak damak;.
8. Amnion kesesinin çocuğun yüzünü örten kısmı. peçe, başörtüsü, yaşmak, duvak, rahibe başlığı, örtü, perde, maske, bahane. peçe takmak, peçe ile örtmek, gizlemek, maskelemek.
9. duvak, peçe ile örtmek, bahane, yaşmak, peçe, başörtüsü, rahibe başlığı, gizlemek, örtü, perde maske, maskelemek, peçe takmak.
10. peçe. yaşmak. (birşeyi) örten ya da gizleyen şey. maske. paravana. peçe ile örtmek. gizlemek. saklamak.
11. peçe. yaşmak. perde. tül. duvak. bahane. maske. peçe ile örtmek. üstünü kapamak. gizlemek.
12. örterek sakla örtü.

Etymology : Middle English veile, from Old North French, from Latin vela, plural of velum sail, awning, curtain
Pronunciation : vA(&)l
Function : noun
Date : 13th century

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1. length of cloth worn by women as a face covering; netting attached to a woman's hat; something which hides or conceals (such as a curtain); nun's headdress; vow's of a nun; membrane which covers an immature mushroom. cover; hide. veil\veil\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. veiled ; p. pr. & vb. n. veiling.] [cf. of. veler, f. voiler, l. velarc. see: veil, n.] [written also vail.].
2. to throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight, love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
3. fig.: to invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. to keep your great pretenses veiled.veil \veil\ (vāl), n. [oe. veile, of. veile, f. voile, l. velum a sail, covering, curtain, veil, probably fr. vehere to bear, carry, and thus originally, that which bears the ship on. see: vehicle, and cf. reveal.] [written also vail.].
4. 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 diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face. the veil of the temple was rent in twain. xxvii.
5. she, as a veil down to the slender waist, her unadornéd golden tresses wore.
6. a cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. [i will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming mistress page.
7. (bot.) (a) the calyptra of mosses. (b) a membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
8. (eccl.) a covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
9. (zo?l.) same as velum, 3.
10. 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 diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
11. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
12. The calyptra of mosses.
13. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; called also velum.
14. A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
15. Same as Velum, 3.
16. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
17. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces".
18. 1. A veil is a piece of thin soft cloth that women sometimes wear over their heads and which can also cover their face. She's got long fair hair but she's got a veil over it.
19. You can refer to something that hides or partly hides a situation or activity as a veil. The country is ridding itself of its disgraced prime minister in a veil of secrecy The chilling facts behind this veil of silence were slow to emerge.
20. You can refer to something that you can partly see: through, for example a mist, as a veil. The eruption has left a thin veil of dust in the upper atmosphere = haze.
21. If you draw a veil over something, you stop talking about it because it is too unpleasant to talk about. The clamour to draw a veil over the minister's extra-marital activities reeks of hypocrisy.