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veer
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /v??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /v?(?)?/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).
Verb
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 2
Borrowed from Middle French virer.
Noun
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
Translations
Verb
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.
- 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.
- (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).
- (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
- (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
- (transitive) To turn.
Antonyms
- (of the wind, to shift clockwise): back
- (of the wind, to shift aft): haul forward
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Vere, ever
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch veer.
Noun
veer (plural vere)
- feather
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ve???r/, [??e???]
- Rhymes: -e???r
Noun
veer
- plural of ve
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ve?r/, [v??r]
- Hyphenation: veer
- Rhymes: -e?r
Etymology 1
A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþr?, from Proto-Indo-European *péth?r? ~ pth?én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth?- (“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.
Noun
veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)
- feather
- Synonym: pluim
- spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)
Alternative forms
- (feather): veder (dated)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: veer
- ? Indonesian: per (“spring”)
Verb
veer
- first-person singular present indicative of veren
- imperative of veren
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farjan?.
Cognate with German Fähre.
Noun
veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)
- ferry
Synonyms
- overzet
- pont, veerpont m, veerboot
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: veer
Anagrams
- erve, ever, vere, vree
Dutch Low Saxon
Alternative forms
- vaaier (Gronings)
Etymology
From Low German, from Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier.
Numeral
veer
- four (4)
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *veeri.
Noun
veer (genitive veere, partitive veert)
- edge
Declension
German Low German
Etymology
From Low German, from Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier, English four.
Numeral
veer
- (in some dialects, including Low Prussian and Münsterland) four (4)
Coordinate terms
See also
- Plautdietsch: veea
Jutish
Etymology
From Old Norse vita.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ve??]
Verb
veer
- (Fjolde) to know
References
- “veer” in Anders Bjerrum and Marie Bjerrum (1974), Ordbog over Fjoldemålet, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
veer m
- indefinite plural of ve
Old French
Verb
veer
- Alternative form of veoir
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin vid?re, present active infinitive of vide?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?e?/
Verb
veer
- to see
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)
- Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ?e me ?aberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo s? 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 / ?e me ?aberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo s? mj
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)
Descendants
- Galician: ver
- Portuguese: ver
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- vedär
Etymology
From Old Norse viðra, related to veðr (“weather”).
Verb
veer
- let wind blow through something
Related terms
- ver
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geer
English
Noun
geer (countable and uncountable, plural geers)
- Obsolete form of gear.
Anagrams
- Eger, Gere, eger, egre, gree
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch gêer, from Old Dutch *g?r, from Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
geer m (plural geren, diminutive geertje n)
- spear
- (heraldry) gyron
Synonyms
- (spear): speer, spies, lans
Derived terms
- aalgeer
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *g?r, from Proto-West Germanic *gai?, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz.
Noun
gêer m
- spear
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: geer
Further reading
- “ghere (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “geer (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page III
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