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" Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."
John Polkinghorne

Meaning of "veiled" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF VEILED

veɪld


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VEILED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Veiled is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES VEILED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Veiled

Veiled is the first album by the American singer/songwriter Leah Andreone, released in 1996.

Definition of veiled in the English dictionary

The definition of veiled in the dictionary is disguised. Other definition of veiled is not distinct; muffled.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VEILED

bewailed · bobtailed · detailed · draggletailed · eild · failed · fan-tailed · full-sailed · hobnailed · long-tailed · pigtailed · pintailed · unassailed · unbewailed · uncurtailed · unentailed · unhailed · unmailed · unsailed · untailed

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VEILED

veil · veil-like · veiledly · veiling · veilless · veilleuse · veily · vein · veinal · veined · veiner · veining · veinless · veinlet · veinlike · veinous · veinstone · veinule · veiny

WORDS THAT END LIKE VEILED

boiled · charbroiled · coomceiled · domiciled · embroiled · exiled · hard-boiled · oiled · one-tailed · riled · ring-tailed · soft-boiled · spoiled · tiled · two-tailed · undefiled · unfiled · unfoiled · unspoiled · well oiled

Synonyms and antonyms of veiled in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VEILED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «veiled» and belong to the same grammatical category.
blind · cloak · conceal · cover · covert · curtain · dim · disguise · disguised · film · hide · implied · mantle · mask · masked · obscure · screen · shade · shield · shroud

Translation of «veiled» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF VEILED

Find out the translation of veiled to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of veiled from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «veiled» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

含蓄的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

disimulado
570 millions of speakers
en

English

veiled
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

छिपी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المحجبات
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

завуалированная
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

velado
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অবগুণ্ঠিত
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

voilé
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Bertudung
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

versteckt
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

遠回しの
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

가려진
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Veiled
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

che kín mặt
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மறைமுகமான
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

आच्छादित
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

örtülü
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

velato
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Ukrytych
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

завуальована
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

voalată
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πέπλο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bedekte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förtäckt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tilslørt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of veiled

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VEILED»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of veiled
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «veiled».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about veiled

EXAMPLES

5 QUOTES WITH «VEILED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word veiled.
1
Anne Fadiman
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.
2
Quincy Jones
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
3
Heinz R. Pagels
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
4
Charles Pelly
Designers used to be kept behind veiled doors. Now they are often the faces of companies.
5
John Polkinghorne
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VEILED»

Discover the use of veiled in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to veiled and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
"A truly extraordinary book--beautifully and modestly written, remarkably insightful, consistently compelling." --Edward Said, author of Out of Place: A Memoir
Lila Abu-Lughod, 1999
2
Veiled Empire: Gender & Power in Stalinist Central Asia
Drawing on research in Russian and Uzbekistani archives, the author reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women.
Douglas Taylor Northrop, 2004
3
Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women
What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time.
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, 1993
4
The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H.D., Louise Bogan, ...
In The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet, Elizabeth Dodd explores the lives and work of four women poets of the twentieth century - H. D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Gluck.
Elizabeth Caroline Dodd, 1992
5
Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
Veiled Courage will change the way Americans think of Afghanistan, casting its people and its future in a new, more hopeful light. From the Hardcover edition.
Cheryl Benard, 2002
6
Veiled Employment: Islamism and the Political Economy of ...
The volume analyzes such issues as the effect of global trade on female employment, women’s contribution to the informal work sector, and Iranian female migrant workers in the United States.
Roksana Bahramitash, Hadi Salehi Esfahani, 2011
7
Veiled Encounters: Representing the Orient in 17th-century ...
The status of these texts remained ambiguous, not least because of their anecdotal depictions of great riches, brutality or sexual promise.
Michael Harrigan, 2008
8
Veiled Threats
In an explosion of sheer terror, she must hunt down a killer — till death do her part.... From the Paperback edition.
Deborah Donnelly, 2008
9
Veiled Reality: An Analysis of Present-day Quantum ...
The final message of the book?stemming from a careful, comprehensive analysis?is that this apparent obscurity is there to stay, in the sense that what quantum mechanics (and therefore the whole of physics) describes in detail is not what ...
Bernard D'Espagnat, 2003
10
Veiled Desires
MacNish's deeply romantic new novel reveals the untapped power of a woman's heart and how fiercely she dares to protect it. Original.
Tracy MacNish, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VEILED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term veiled is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Granger makes veiled reference to Venezuela threat at Ethiopia …
Addressing a financing conference for development in Ethiopia today, President David Granger made a veiled reference to continuing threats by Venezuela to ... «Stabroek News, Jul 15»
2
Has Jessica Wright fired back at Ricky Rayment with thinly veiled
Jessica Wright seems to have hit back at ex Ricky Rayment with a thinly-veiled message about being "free" on Instagram. The TOWIE beauty has shared a ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
3
US Veiled Master Chef
CAIRO – An American Muslim woman became the first ever veiled female chief to appear on an American primetime cooking show after joining this season's ... «Onislam.net, May 15»
4
Elangovan makes veiled attack on Chidambaram
Faction feud between TNCC President E.V.K.S. Elangovan and senior leader P. Chidambaram seemed to continue unabated with the former making a veiled ... «The Hindu, Mar 15»
5
Sunlight warning for veiled women
Jordanian endocrinologist Dr Jihad Haddad told the GDN that women who wear a niqab (full face veil) or hijab (headscarf) are at particular risk of Vitamin D ... «Gulf Daily News, Mar 15»
6
Tiny bright green baby veiled chameleons hatch at Sydney's …
The teeny tiny veiled chameleons born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo are already making a big impression. About 5cm long, the hatchlings are small enough to sit ... «International Business Times UK, Mar 15»
7
Russian Editor Complains Of Veiled Threat By Chechnya's Kadyrov
The editor of the Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy says he will complain to law-enforcement officials about a thinly veiled threat against him posted on the ... «RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Jan 15»
8
Amazon publishes thinly veiled rape fantasy of #GamerGate target …
A thinly veiled, 11-page-long fantasy about raping game developer Zoe Quinn, titled Roughed Up By #GamerGape, has been made available for purchase as ... «Raw Story, Dec 14»
9
5 Veiled Frenchwomen Tell 5 Stories of Harassment
All of them are facing stop signs of one kind or another in French society because they wear the head-covering veil or hijab. "I broke out in tears," says one of ... «Women's eNews, Nov 14»
10
Woman wearing niqab thrown out after Paris Verdi's La Traviate cast …
France's Socialist government today pledged to toughen up its anti face-covering law after a veiled Muslim woman was ejected from a major Paris opera house. «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
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