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Definitions: Vet |
VetNoun1. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine. 2. A person who has served in the armed forces. Verb1. Work as a veterinarian; "She vetted for the farms in the area for many years". 2. Examine carefully; "Someone should vet this report before it goes out". 3. Provide (a person) with medical care. 4. Provide veterinary care for. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
VET | English | Visual display unit eye test | Computing |
VET | French | Visualisateur électronique de textes | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
1. Veteran: "A Vietnam vet is a soldier who served in the Vietnam war".
2. A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon: "A vet is an animal doctor".
3. A verb derived from 2 and meaning "to check": "The police vetted the crowd for weapons before allowing them to enter the building".
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vet."
Synonyms: VetSynonyms: ex-serviceman (n), veteran (n), veterinarian (n), veterinary (n), veterinary surgeon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Husbandry | Neatherd, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper; trainer, breeder; apiarian, apiarist; bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vet |
| English words defined with "vet": altering ♦ fixing ♦ neutering. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Vet" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (fat, fatty, grease, greasy), Albanian (him), Dutch (fat, fatty, grease, greasy), Hungarian (cast, hove, launch, project, sow, threw, throw, thrown, to cast, cast, to dart, to fling, flung, to get in, to heave, to heave, hove, to let fly, to put down, to put, put, to send, sent, to shadow, to shed, shed, to shoot, shot, to shy, to sling, slung, to sow, sowed, sown, to throw, to throw, threw, thrown, to trip), Swedish (know, knows). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Maybe I'd be a vet. (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.) I'm saying that Spike had a little trip to the vet, and now he doesn't chase the other puppies anymore. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) The vet seems to think she becoming a rooster. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Well, I'm more of a vet. (The Island of Dr. Moreau; writing credit: Richard Stanley) He takes it to the vet, he examines it and says a maggot must have laid eggs in the dog's butt. (Addicted to Love; writing credit: Robert Gordon) | |
Lyrics | Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet ("Something To Believe In"; performing artist: Poison) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gudene vet (1999) Vet Heftig - de video (1997) Du vet den där jäveln Ja (1996) The Vet (1993) De vet hva de gjør (1980) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Don't forget : hire the vet.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Your vet can answer any other questions you may have regarding your cat and risk for toxoplasmosis. (references) | |
Business | The law permits closed shop and exclusion clauses, allowing union leaders to vet and veto new hires and force dismissal of anyone the union expels. (references) | |
Economic History | Australia | The national regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), has the power under the Prices Surveillance Act of 1983 to investigate, vet or monitor the prices charged by businesses. (references) |
Malaysia | Borrowing large amounts of money in Malaysia requires special approval: the controller of foreign exchange must vet every loan application greater than RM10 million (U.S.$2.63 million) equivalent in any foreign currency for non-residents. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | Significant problems also remain because serious efforts have not been made to vet police recruits. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.95% of the time. "Vet" is used about 629 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.95% | 572 | 11,028 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.67% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.22% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 629 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "vet": author-vet, horse-vet. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vet | 944 |
ask the vet | 368 |
vet supply | 268 |
valley vet | 215 |
online vet | 177 |
vet school | 177 |
quality vet | 130 |
vet tech | 108 |
pet vet | 84 |
kv vet | 78 |
vet dog | 70 |
cal vet | 68 |
question vet | 59 |
vet medicine | 58 |
vet tech school | 55 |
vet advice | 45 |
texas vet | 43 |
vet pet insurance | 42 |
vet med | 42 |
meds vet | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veteriner (veterinarian), veteran (an old stager, old timer, veteran), ushtroj profesionin e veterinerit, shqyrtoj (analyse, analyze, assay, bolt, call, canvass, case, check, check over, debate, discuss, explore, inspect, investigate, look into, look over, look through, moot, peruse, process, scrutinize, see, see into, study, talk over, think out, traverse, view), korrigjoj (blue pencil, correct, emend, make amends, re establish, readjust, rearrange, reclaim, rectify, red pencil, reform, repair, retouch, retrieve, straighten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فحص (assay, calibrate, check, check up, checking, control, examination, examine, exploration, explore, inquire about, inquire into, inspect, inspection, investigate, investigation, look into, overhaul, probe, quiz, scrutinize, search, search for, search into, searching, see, sound, survey, test, view), طبيب بيطري (veterinarian, veterinary), جندي عريق (veteran), دقق (be precise, be strict, mope, particularize, scrutinize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ветеран (dugout, old war-horse, veteran), ветеринар (veterinary), лекувам (cure, doctor, heal, medicate, nurse, salve, treat for), проучвам (bottom, examine, explore, inspect, investigate, probe, prospect, quarry, read up, research, scout, see about, see into, sound out, study, survey, turn over), преглеждам (examine, go over, inspect, look at, look over, look through, overhaul, review, revise, run back, take a look at). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 狩医. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veterán (veteran), zvìrolékař (veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon), překontrolovat (check smth. out, go over, go through, scrutinize, test), jít k zvìrolékaři. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کهنه سرباز (Veteran), دامپزشک (Veterinarian), بیطاری کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vétérinaire (veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon), vérifier (to verify, verify), examiner de près, corriger, ancien combattant (veteran). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tierarzt (veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κτηνίατροσ (veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon), βετεράνοσ (veteran), παλαίμαχοσ (veteran), απόστρατοσ (veteran), απόμαχοσ (pensioner, veteran). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ותיק (old, old hand, old timer, senior, veteran), רופא וטרי רי (veterinarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | állatorvos (veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | dokter hewan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | veterinario (veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ベクトル値 (bechamel sauce, bed, bed house, bedroom, bedroom community, bedroom scene, best, best condition, best dresser, best member, best ten, best-seller, bet, beta, better, better half, going to bed, having reached the quarterfinals, having reached the semifinals, vector value, vegetable, vegetarian, vest, veteran, Vietnam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ベット (bet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수의사 (Veterinarian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shirrey stiagh ayn, scrutaghey (audit, check over, checking, examine, inspect, revision, vetting), lhee baagh (veterinarian, veterinary surgeon), fer lhee baagh (horse doctor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etvay veterinário (farriery, horse-drawn, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon), veterano (antediluvian, campaigner, captain, old timer, veteran, war dog, war horse), examinar (assay, canvass, catechize, check, check up on, cross, discussion, enquire, examine, explore, eye drops, go over, have out, inquire, inspect, look, look over, look through, overhaul, peruse, probe, question, quiz, run over, scan, test, traverse, turn out, verify, view), criticar (animadvert, assail, attack, carp, censure, clapperclaw, comment, complain, criticize, faultfinder, impeach, knock about, land on, review, slash), corrigir (amend, blue pencil, break, chasten, correct, emend, mend, read, reclaim, rectify, refine, reform, retouch, revise, set right). (various references) ветеринар (cow-leech, veterinarian), быть ветеринаром. (various references) veterinar (veterinarian), veteran (veteran), kritički pregledati. (various references) veterinario (veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon), revisar (audit, check, check over, check up on, examine, go over, inspect, look at, look over, overhaul, review, revise, service, supervise, verify), repasar a (go over, go through, overhaul), probar (assay, attempt, chance, establish, evidence, experiment, give it a try, have a bash at, like, make good, prove, sample, sip, taste, tease, tempt, test, touch, try, try on, try out), investigar desde (inquire), examinar (consider, examine, explore, go into, go over, go through, inquire, inquire into, inspect, look at, look into, look over, look through, observe, overlook, ponder, probe, quiz, rake, review, search, study, talk out, tempt, test, view), ex combatiente, aprobar (adopt, agree, approbate, approve, carry, come, endorse, fall in, fall in with, Favor, favour, get through, gown, hold with, indorse, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, pass, receive, support, underwrite, view, welcome). (various references) veterinär (farrier, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon). (various references) veteriner (horse doctor, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon), tecrübeli (experienced, handsome, old, practised, sophisticated, versed, versed in, veteran), muaeyene etmek, kıdemli (elder, highly placed, prior, senior, veteran), incelemek (analyse, analyze, audit, check over, con, construe, dig, dig out, dissect, examine, examine into, go into, investigate, look into, look through, make a study of, observe, peruse, research, research into, scan, search, study, survey, twig, view), eski kurt (old hand, veteran), eski asker (veteran), eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, immemorial, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, veteran), emektar (old servant, veteran), deneyimli kimse (experienced person, old bird, Stager, wise person), baytar (horse doctor, veterinarian, veterinary). (various references) ветеран (old timer, veteran), ветеринар (farrier, veterinarian, veterinary), лікувати тварин, бути ветеринаром. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vet": vetch, vetches, vetchling, vetchlings, veteran, veterans, veterinarian, veterinarians, veterinaries, veterinary, vetiver, vetivers, vetivert, vetiverts, veto, vetoed, vetoer, vetoers, vetoes, vetoing, vets, vetted, vetting. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "vet": blivet, brevet, civet, corvet, covet, curvet, duvet, grivet, privet, revet, rivet, swivet, trevet, trivet, velvet, vervet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "vet": anchoveta, anchovetas, anchovetta, anchovettas, blivets, brevetcies, brevetcy, breveted, breveting, brevets, brevetted, brevetting, cavetti, cavetto, cavettos, civets, corvets, corvette, corvettes, covetable, coveted, coveter, coveters, coveting, covetingly, covetous, covetously, covetousness, covetousnesses, covets, curveted, curveting, curvets, curvetted, curvetting, cuvette, cuvettes, dovetail, dovetailed, dovetailing, dovetails, drivetrain, drivetrains, duvetine, duvetines, duvets, duvetyn, duvetyne, duvetynes, duvetyns, grivets, inveteracies, inveteracy, inveterate, inveterately, kvetch, kvetched, kvetches, kvetchier, kvetchiest, kvetching, kvetchy, livetrap, livetrapped, livetrapping, livetraps, naivete, naivetes, naiveties, naivety, navette, navettes, nonveteran, nonveterans, privets, revetment, revetments, revets, revetted, revetting, riveted, riveter, riveters, riveting, rivetingly, rivets, rivetted, rivetting, shavetail, shavetails, swivets, trevets, trivets, velveted, velveteen, velveteens, velvetlike, velvets, velvety, vervets. (additional references) | |
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"Vet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avet, cvet, evf, evm, evp, evt, evw, ivet, ovet, svet, tev, uvet, uvit, vact, vaet, vaft, vah, vaj, vaot, vapt, vaq, vath, vatt, vatu, vaty, vay, vde, vdt, ve, vea, veat, veb, vec, vech, vect, ved, vedt, vee, veeb, veei, veej, veet, veeta, veete, veev, veey, veg, vegt, veh, veit, vej, vek, vel, velt, vem, ven, veo, vep, vept, veq, ver, ves, veta, vetd, vete, veth, veti, vetl, vett, vetti, vety, veu, veut, vev, vew, vext, vey, vez, vhe, vict, viet, vih, vij, vik, vimt, viot, viq, vit, vitc, vith, vitr, vitt, vitu, vme, vodt, voet, vof, voh, vort, vot, votv, voty, voxt, voz, vpe, vret, vst, vt, vuet, vut, Xvith, yvet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vet" (pronounced ve"t) |
| 3 | v e" t | corvette. |
| 2 | -e" t | abet, anisette, barbette, barrette, beget, beset, bet, Brunet, brunette, cabriolet, cadet, calumet, cassette, cigarette, clarinet, cornet, coronet, debt, diskette, duet, et, Falconet, flageolet, forget, fret, Gazette, georgette, get, jet, kitchenette, let, Luncheonette, met, minaret, minuet, net, nett, octet, offset, pet, pipette, pirouette, preset, quartet, quintet, regret, reset, Ret, rosette, roulette, set, Sextet, silhouette, sobriquet, statuette, Stet, suffragette, sweat, tet, threat, unmet, unset, upset, vedette, vignette, wet, whet, yet, yett. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-t-v" | |
-1 letter: et. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-t-v" | |
+1 letter: vent, vert, vest, veto, vets, vext, vote. | |
+2 letters: avert, civet, covet, duvet, event, evert, evict, evite, ovate, overt, revet, rivet, stave, stove, trave, trove, valet, veldt, vents, verst, verts, vertu, vesta, vests, vetch, vitae, volte, voted, voter, votes. | |
+3 letters: active, advect, advent, advert, averts, aviate, avocet, avoset, blivet, brevet, caveat, civets, corvet, covert, covets, curvet, dative, devest, devote, devout, divert, divest, duvets, events, everts, evicts, evited, evites, grivet, invent, invert, invest, invite, kvetch, levant, levity, livest, motive, native, obvert, octave, outvie, privet, revert, revest, revets, revolt, revote, rivets, savate, soviet, starve, staved, staves, steeve, stiver, stover, stoves, strive, strove, svelte, swivet, tavern, thieve, thrave, thrive, throve, travel, traves, trevet, trivet, trover, troves, turves, twelve, unvext, vacate, valets, varlet, vaster, vatted, vector, vegete, velate, veldts, velvet, vented, venter, verist, verite, verity, verset, verste, versts, vertex, vertus, vervet, vestal, vestas, vested, vestee, vestry, vetoed, vetoer, vetoes, vetted, vilest, violet, virtue, vittae, vittle, voltes, volute, vortex, voters, votive. | |
+4 letters: actives, advects, advents, adverts, amative, averted, aviated, aviates, avocets, avosets, bevomit, blivets, bravest, brevets, brevity, captive, caveats, cavetti, cavetto, centavo, cheviot, clavate, convect, convent, convert, corvets, costive, coverts, coveted, coveter, culvert, curvets, cutover, cuvette, datives, devests, deviant, deviate, devoted, devotee, devotes, diverts, divests, dovecot, duvetyn, eightvo, elative, elevate, emotive, estival, evenest, everted, evertor, evicted, evictee, evictor, evident, evilest, eviting, evolute, fervent, festive, fictive, foveate, furtive, gavotte, gravest, grivets, harvest, invents, inverts, invests, invited, invitee, inviter, invites, jiviest, kvetchy, levants, levator, leveret, lievest, motived, motives, naivest, naivete, naivety, natives, navette, nervate, novelty, obovate, obverts, obviate, octaves, outgave, outgive, outlive, outlove, outmove, outrave, outvied, outvies, outvote, ovately, overact, overapt, overate, overbet, overcut, overeat, overfat, overhot, overlet, overlit, overset, overtax, overtip, overtly, overtop, overwet, ovulate, pervert, pivoted, poverty, prevent, private, privets, restive, reverts, revests, revisit, revolts, revoted, revotes, revuist, riveted, riveter, rivulet, savates, servant, seventh, seventy, solvate, solvent, soviets, spaviet, starved, starver, starves, stative, steeved, steeves, stivers, stovers, strived, striven, striver, strives, stuiver, suavest, subvert, svelter, swivets, sylvite, taverna, taverns, tensive, thieved, thieves, thraves, thrived, thriven, thriver, thrives, travels, trevets, trivets, trovers, tussive, twelves, unitive, uveitic, uveitis, vacated, vacates, vaguest, vainest, valeted, vallate, valuate, valvate, vantage, variate, variety, varlets, varment, vastest, vastier, vaulted, vaulter, vaunted, vaunter, vauntie, vawntie, vectors, vedette, vegetal, veinlet, velites, veloute, velvets, velvety, venatic, ventage, ventail, venters, venting, ventral, venture, venturi, verdant, verdict, veriest, verists, veritas, verites, vermuth, versant, versets, verstes, vertigo, vervets, vestals, vestees, vestige, vesting, vestral, vesture, vetches, veteran, vetiver, vetoers, vetoing, vetting, vibrate, vicomte, vidette, vilayet, viniest, vintage, vintner, violate, violent, violets, virgate, virtues, visited, visiter, vistaed, vitamer, vitelli, vitesse, vitiate, vitrine, vittate, vittled, vittles, volante, voltage, voluted, volutes, volvate, vomited, vomiter, votable, votress, vulgate, vulture, vulvate, wavelet, waviest, zemstva, zemstvo. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)567186 |
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