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Vet

Definitions: Vet

Vet

Noun

1. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.

2. A person who has served in the armed forces.

Verb

1. 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)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Vet

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField

VET

EnglishVisual display unit eye testComputing

VET

FrenchVisualisateur électronique de textesN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Vet

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Vet has three main meanings in standard English:

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."

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Synonyms: Vet

Synonyms: ex-serviceman (n), veteran (n), veterinarian (n), veterinary (n), veterinary surgeon (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Vet

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Vet

English words defined with "vet": alteringfixingneutering. (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).

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Modern Usage: Vet

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Vet

DomainTitle

Books

  • Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet (reference)

  • Don't Turn Your Back in the Barn: Adventures of a Country Vet (reference)

  • I'm Going to Be a Vet (Read With Me/I'm Going to Be) (reference)

  • Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet! (reference)

  • Milton Goes to the Vet (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Vet

Photos:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Vet

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Don't forget : hire the vet.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Vet

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Vet

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)90.95%57211,028
Lexical Verb (infinitive)6.67%4252,864
Lexical Verb (base form)2.22%1493,893
Noun (proper)0.16%1339,140
                    Total100.00%629N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Vet

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "vet": author-vet, horse-vet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vet

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Vet

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

ветеринар (cow-leech, veterinarian), быть ветеринаром. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

veterinar (veterinarian), veteran (veteran), kritički pregledati. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

veterinär (farrier, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

ветеран (old timer, veteran), ветеринар (farrier, veterinarian, veterinary), лікувати тварин, бути ветеринаром. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vet

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Vet"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "vet" (pronounced ve"t)
3v e" tcorvette.
2-e" tabet, 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.

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Anagrams: Vet

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vet


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

567186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Abbreviations
14. Acronyms
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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