vee

plural vees

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

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

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

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   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.

   2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170

2. Something with the shape of the Latin letter V.

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

   2013, Nancy Springer, We Don't Know Why

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   The girl put her hand up to her throat and the cloak of black feathers came away from the front of her body and spread out into a five-foot black fan. She swirled it slowly behind her until it stood up like a peacock's tail. She was naked except for a brief vee of black lace and a black sequined star in the centre of each breast and the thin black domino across her eyes.

   1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 57

   This is a 16-cylinder unit with the cylinders arranged in vee formation, operating on the four-stroke cycle and pressure-charged by four Napier exhaust gas-driven turbo-chargers.

   1958 June 28, “Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotives for the Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 393

   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.

   1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf

   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.

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

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

present singular third person vees · participle present veeing · participle past veed · past veed

1. To form something into a "v" shape, particularly as part of a welding, machining, or manufacturing process.

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

   1925, Oxweld Acetylene Company, The Oxwelder's Manual: Instructions for Welding and Cutting, page 166

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

   2005, Richard Finch, Performance Welding Handbook, page 83

1. A female given name, short for names beginning with V.

plural Vees

1. Alternative letter-case form of vee.

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of Venezuelan equine encephalitis/encephalomyelitis.