veer
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɪə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(r)
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).
VerbEdit
veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)
- (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 12:
- As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 12:
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Middle French virer.
NounEdit
veer (plural veers)
- A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
- 1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.
- 1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
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VerbEdit
veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)
- (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
- The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
- 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- And as he leads, the following navy veers.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
- An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
- 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
- At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.
- 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, pages 38, 39:
- As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
[page 39] It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).
- (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).[1]
- (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.[1]
- (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
- (transitive) To turn.
AntonymsEdit
- (of the wind, to shift clockwise): back
- (of the wind, to shift aft): haul forward
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AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
veer (plural vere)
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
veer
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). The sense "spring" is derived from the ability of feathers to resume their shape when bent.
Cognate with Low German Fedder, German Feder, West Frisian fear, English feather, Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder.
NounEdit
veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)
- a feather, plume
- Synonym: pluim
- a mechanical spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)
- a twisted leaf, notably of a fern
Alternative formsEdit
- (feather): veder (dated)
Derived termsEdit
- bladveer
- contourveer
- dekveer
- dinosaurusveer
- donsveer
- drijfveer
- drukveer
- een veer in de reet steken
- ganzenveer
- met andermans veren pronken
- okselveer
- oorveer
- schroefveer
- spiraalveer
- springveer
- staartveer
- trapveer
- trekveer
- veerconstante
- veerkracht
- veermechanisme
- veerstrop
- veerunster
- veerwild
- veren
- verendek
- verenkleed
- vogelveer
- wagenveer
- wangveer
DescendantsEdit
VerbEdit
veer
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną.
NounEdit
veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: veer
AnagramsEdit
Dutch Low SaxonEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- vaaier (Gronings)
EtymologyEdit
From Low German, from Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier.
NumeralEdit
veer
- four (4)
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *veeri.
NounEdit
veer (genitive veere, partitive veert)
DeclensionEdit
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | veer | veered |
| accusative | veere | veered |
| genitive | veere | veerte |
| partitive | veert | veeri |
| illative | veerde veeresse |
veertesse veerisse |
| inessive | veeres | veertes veeris |
| elative | veerest | veertest veerist |
| allative | veerele | veertele veerile |
| adessive | veerel | veertel veeril |
| ablative | veerelt | veertelt veerilt |
| translative | veereks | veerteks veeriks |
| terminative | veereni | veerteni |
| essive | veerena | veertena |
| abessive | veereta | veerteta |
| comitative | veerega | veertega |
German Low GermanEdit
| < 3 | 4 | 5 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : veer Ordinal : veert | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier, English four.
NumeralEdit
veer
- (in some dialects, including Low Prussian and Münsterland) four (4)
Coordinate termsEdit
See alsoEdit
- Plautdietsch: veea
JutishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
veer
ReferencesEdit
- “veer” in Anders Bjerrum and Marie Bjerrum (1974), Ordbog over Fjoldemålet, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
veer
- Alternative form of firre
Norwegian BokmålEdit
NounEdit
veer m
- indefinite plural of ve
Old FrenchEdit
VerbEdit
veer
- Alternative form of veoir
Old PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
veer
- to see
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)
- Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ſe me ſaberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo sẽ mj
- Oh waves that I came to see / say unto me / Why my lover lingers thus away from me?
- Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ſe me ſaberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo sẽ mj
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)
DescendantsEdit
WestrobothnianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse viðra, related to veðr (“weather”).
VerbEdit
veer