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  • 31veiled — adjective veiled threats Syn: disguised, camouflaged, masked, covert, hidden, concealed, suppressed, underlying, implicit, implied, indirect Ant: overt …

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  • 32veiled — [veɪld] adj 1) a veiled threat, attack, or warning is not direct but is easily understood 2) covered with a veil …

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  • 33veiled — [[t]veɪld[/t]] adj. 1) having or wearing a veil 2) not openly or directly revealed or expressed: a veiled threat[/ex] • Etymology: 1585–95 …

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  • 34veiled — /veɪld/ (say vayld) adjective 1. covered with or wearing a veil. 2. concealed or covered, with or as with a veil. 3. not openly expressed or declared; disguised: *The letter carried a thinly veiled threat of legal action. –advertiser, 1992. 4.… …

  • 35veiled anglemouth — mažadantė šeriažiotė švietenė statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Cyclothone microdon angl. scaled eye nosed fish; veiled anglemouth rus. малозубая циклотона; углоротая циклотона ryšiai: platesnis… …

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  • 36veiled cell — A cell type found in afferent lymph and defined (rather unsatisfactorily) on the basis of its morphology. Probably an accessory cell (a dendritic cell) migrating from the periphery (where it is referred to as a Langerhans cell if in the skin) to… …

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  • 37Veiled dot — Ореольная растровая точка …

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  • 38veiled — Synonyms and related words: aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, armored, between the lines, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, cased, ceiled, chance, chancy, chaotic, cloaked, clouded, coated, concealed, confused, coped, covered, covert, cowled, cryptic …

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  • 39veiled — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. disguised, hidden, covered up, concealed, obscured, shrouded, screened, darkened, shielded. ANT.: exposed …

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  • 40veiled — veɪld adj. covered with a veil; concealed, hidden veɪl n. length of cloth worn by women as a face covering; netting attached to a woman s hat; something which hides or conceals (such as a curtain); nun s headdress; vow s of a nun; membrane… …

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