veer

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).

Verb

veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

1. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.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.

Etymology 2

From Middle French virer.

Noun

veer (plural veers)

1. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.

Translations

turning

• Russian: поворот (ru) (povorót) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: skretanje (sh) n

Verb

veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

1. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve
   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, New York Times:

     At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.

   The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.

2. (intransitive, of the wind) to change direction in a clockwise direction if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere
3. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) to shift aft
4. (intransitive, nautical) to change direction into the wind; to wear ship
5. (transitive) to turn

Antonyms

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• Of the wind, to shift clockwise or counterclockwise: back
• Of the wind, to shift aft: haul forward

Translations

(transitive) turn

• French: tourner (fr)
• Portuguese: virar (pt)
• Russian: менять курс (ru) (menjátʹ kurs) impf., поворачивать (ru) (povoráčivatʹ) impf., повернуть (ru) (povernútʹ) pf.

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скренути (sh)

  Roman: skrenuti (sh)

• Spanish: virar (es)

Anagrams

• ever

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːr
• IPA: /veːr/, [vɪːr]

Etymology 1

A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, 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.

Alternative forms

• veder

Noun

veer c (plural veren, diminutive veertje)

1. feather
2. spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)

Derived terms

• drijfveer
• veerkracht
• veerstrop
• veerwild
• veren (to bounce, reverberate)

Synonyms

• pluim

Verb

veer

1. first-person singular present indicative of veren
2. imperative of veren

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farją. Derived from the verb Old Dutch *ferien (“to ferry”), from Proto-Germanic *farjaną. Compare German Fähre.

Noun

veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje)

1. ferry

Synonyms

• overzet
• pont, veerpont m, veerboot

Derived terms

• veergeld, veerloon
• veerman
• veerweg
• veerboot

Anagrams

• erve, ever, vere, vree

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Estonian

Noun

veer (^??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

1. edge

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Low German

Alternative forms

• (Plautdietsch) veea

Etymology

Ultimately cognate to German vier, English four.

Numeral

veer

1. (Low Prussian) four (4)

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Old French

Verb

veer

1. Alternative form of vëoir.

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

Latin video.

Verb

veer

1. to see