vee

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈviː/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: ve
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

vee (plural vees)

2. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.
   • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:

     Gussa-Merry-Mingo-Pip-Perry-Pingo is the name of the little old man who looks after the aitch-oh-vee-ee-ar-cee-ay-ar-pee-ee-tee-blank-ar-eye-dee-ee-ess.

   • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     RV [is spoken] as "ar-vee" instead of "I SPELL Romeo Victor".

3. Something with the shape of the letter V.
   • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf:

     One of [the men] took up both spaces on the pink sofa, while the other two drew up chairs from a nearby table and squeezed into them. The armrests were forced out into a tired vee, to the accompaniment of an uneasy creaking sound.

   • 2013, Nancy Springer, We Don't Know Why:

     The river leapt and rippled like a lizard. Geese flew over in a vee, crying to the sky.

   • 2019 December 4, Philip Haigh, “Trains, tickets and tests: LNER outlines its targets”, in Rail, page 62:

     York's new railway offices are rather smart, tucked into the vee of York South Junction where the freight lines diverge to avoid the station.

4. (cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played.
5. (cricket) The V-shaped joint between the lower end of the handle and the blade of the bat.
6. A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.
7. (computing, typography) A unit of vertical spacing, typically corresponding to the height of an ordinary line of text.

Verb

vee (third-person singular simple present vees, present participle veeing, simple past and past participle veed)

1. To form something into a "v" shape, particularly as part of a welding, machining, or manufacturing process.
   • 1925, Oxweld Acetylene Company, The Oxwelder's Manual: Instructions for Welding and Cutting, page 166:

     As the metal melts it is veed out with the paddle for about 2 in.

   • 2005, Richard Finch, Performance Welding Handbook, page 83:

     Use a die grinder to vee out the crack or to remove pounded-out metal where the valve seat came loose.

See also

• say la vee (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• EVE, EeV, Eve, eve

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vêe, from Old Dutch fē, from Proto-West Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”). Cognate to English fee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: vee
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

vee n (uncountable)

1. (collective) livestock, cattle

   Het vee graast in de weide.

   The livestock is grazing in the pasture.

   De boerderij houdt vee voor zowel melk als vlees.

   The farm keeps cattle for both milk and meat.

   Ze handelen in vee, voornamelijk schapen en geiten.

   They trade in livestock, mainly sheep and goats.

Further reading

• “vee” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology

From Swedish ve (“name of the letter V”). Similar names are also found in other European languages, such as English vee, French vé and Latvian vē. It is ultimately formed by analogy with Latin letter names such as bē for B, but it is unknown in which this language took place.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeː/, [ˈʋe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation^(key): vee

Noun

vee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Anagrams

• eve

Etymology

From Old Dutch fē, from Proto-West Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”).

Noun

vêe f or n

1. livestock (collectively)
2. animal of livestock

Further reading

• “vee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Noun

vee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.