VEINING Synonyms

• the act of coloring with areas of different shades

• any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue

• a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

• a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

• a small contrasting part of something

• make a spot or mark onto

• a perceptual structure

• a customary way of operation or behavior

• a decorative or artistic work

• something regarded as a normative example

• a model considered worthy of imitation

• something intended as a guide for making something else

• the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport

• graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle

• plan or create according to a model or models

• form a pattern

• an unbroken series of events

• a distinctive characteristic

• a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

• a sudden flash (as of lightning)

• move quickly in a straight line

• run naked in a public place

• mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

• any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ

• one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect

• a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

• a layer of ore between layers of rock

• a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart