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All 4 letters words made out of veer

veer ever veer ever eevr eevr vere evre vree rvee erve reve vere evre vree rvee erve reve eerv eerv erev reev erev reev

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word veer. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in veer.

Definitions and meaning of veer

veer

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

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)

2. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French virer.

Noun

veer (plural veers)

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

Translations

Verb

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

2. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
3. (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).
   • 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library

     It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.

4. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
5. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
6. (transitive) To turn.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "of the wind, to shift clockwise"): back
• (antonym(s) of "of the wind, to shift aft"): haul forward

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Vere, ever

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch veer.

Pronunciation

Noun

veer (plural vere)

1. feather

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veːˀər/, [ˈʋeːˀɐ]
• Rhymes: -eːˀər

Noun

veer

1. plural of ve

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veːr/, [vɪːr]
• Hyphenation: veer
• Rhymes: -eːr

Etymology 1

A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, 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.

Cognate with Low German Fedder, German Feder, West Frisian fear, English feather, Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder.

Noun

veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

1. a feather, plume

   Synonym: pluim

2. a mechanical spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)
3. a twisted leaf, notably of a fern

Alternative forms

• (feather): veder (dated)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: veer
• → Caribbean Javanese: pir
• → Indonesian: per (“spring”)

Verb

veer

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

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną.

Cognate with German Fähre.

Noun

veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

1. ferry

Synonyms

• overzet
• pont, veerpont m, veerboot

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: veer
• → Sranan Tongo: fer
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: fer
  • → Caribbean Javanese: fir, pir

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

1. four (4)

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veeri.

Pronunciation

Noun

veer (genitive veere, partitive veert)

1. edge

Declension

Further reading

• “veer”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “veer”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• veer in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

German Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier, English four.

Numeral

veer

1. (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): [ˈveːɹ]

Verb

veer

1. (Fjolde) to know

References

• “veer” in Anders Bjerrum and Marie Bjerrum (1974), Ordbog over Fjoldemålet, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

Limburgish

Etymology

From earlier vēr, from Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch *fier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veːʁ/
• Rhymes: -eːʁ

Numeral

veer (Eupen)

1. (cardinal number) four

Middle English

Noun

veer

1. Alternative form of firre

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

veer m

1. indefinite plural of ve

Old French

Verb

veer

1. Alternative form of veoir

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vidēre, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βeˈeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ

Verb

veer

1. to see
   • 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)

Conjugation

Descendants

• Galician: ver
• Portuguese: ver

Spanish

Verb

veer (first-person singular present veo, first-person singular preterite veí, past participle veído)

1. Obsolete spelling of ver

Further reading

• “veer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org