veer

a mechanical spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)

nl-noun

veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

veren (plural)
veertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: veer

→ Caribbean Javanese: pir

→ Indonesian: per (“spring”)

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.


veer

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative


veer

nl-noun

veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

Afrikaans: veer

→ Sranan Tongo: fer

→ Caribbean Hindustani: fer

→ Caribbean Javanese: fir, pir

From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną.
Cognate with German Fähre.


veer

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


veer

As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

en-verb

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

veers (present singular third-person)
veering (participle present)
veered (participle past)
veered (past)

Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).


veer

[…] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.

1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society:

A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.


veer

The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.

And as he leads, the following navy veers.

1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.

1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace:

In recent years, the attitude of the railway authorities towards large-scale visits to works and sheds on the whole, has, happily, veered round from suspicion, and even point-blank opposition, to one of co-operation and ready welcome.

1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:

At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.

2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:

As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
[page 39] It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).

2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, pages 38, 39:

As for the legions of paintings, they veer between the bland and bizarre.

2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.

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.

(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).

(intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.

(intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.

back

antonym(s) of “of the wind, to shift clockwise”

haul forward

antonym(s) of “of the wind, to shift aft”

laskea

of wind: to shift in a clockwise direction


veer

veere (genitive)
veert (partitive)
veer (nominative singular)
veered (nominative plural)
veer (accusative nominative singular)
veered (accusative nominative plural)
veere (accusative genitive singular)
veered (accusative genitive plural)
veere (genitive singular)
veerte (genitive plural)
veert (partitive singular)
veeri (partitive plural)
veerde (illative singular)
veeresse (illative singular)
veertesse (illative plural)
veerisse (illative plural)
veeres (inessive singular)
veertes (inessive plural)
veeris (inessive plural)
veerest (elative singular)
veertest (elative plural)
veerist (elative plural)
veerele (allative singular)
veertele (allative plural)
veerile (allative plural)
veerel (adessive singular)
veertel (adessive plural)
veeril (adessive plural)
veerelt (ablative singular)
veertelt (ablative plural)
veerilt (ablative plural)
veereks (singular translative)
veerteks (plural translative)
veeriks (plural translative)
veereni (singular terminative)
veerteni (plural terminative)
veerena (essive singular)
veertena (essive plural)
veereta (abessive singular)
veerteta (abessive plural)
veerega (comitative singular)
veertega (comitative plural)


veer

(in some dialects, including Low Prussian and Münsterland) four (4)

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


veer

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.


veer

13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)

Oh waves that I came to see / say unto me / Why my lover lingers thus away from me?

Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ſe me ſaberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo sẽ mj

veer (infinitive)
ver (infinitive)
infinitive of haver (infinitive multiword-construction)
tẽer + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
veendo (gerund)
vendo (gerund)
gerund of haver (gerund multiword-construction)
tẽer + past participle (gerund multiword-construction)
veúdo (masculine participle past singular)
viúdo (masculine participle past singular)
visto (masculine participle past singular)
veúdos (masculine participle past plural)
viúdos (masculine participle past plural)
vistos (masculine participle past plural)
veúda (feminine participle past singular)
viúda (feminine participle past singular)
vista (feminine participle past singular)
veúdas (feminine participle past plural)
viúdas (feminine participle past plural)
vistas (feminine participle past plural)
veente (participle past present singular)
vente (participle past present singular)
veentes (participle past plural present)
ventes (participle past plural present)
vejo (indicative present singular)
vees (indicative present singular)
vês (indicative present singular)
vee (indicative present singular)
vê (indicative present singular)
veemos (indicative plural present)
vemos (indicative plural present)
veedes (indicative plural present)
vedes (indicative plural present)
veen (indicative plural present)
veía (imperfect indicative singular)
viía (imperfect indicative singular)
via (imperfect indicative singular)
veías (imperfect indicative singular)
viías (imperfect indicative singular)
vias (imperfect indicative singular)
veïamos (imperfect indicative plural)
veíamos (imperfect indicative plural)
viïamos (imperfect indicative plural)
viíamos (imperfect indicative plural)
viamos (imperfect indicative plural)
víamos (imperfect indicative plural)
veïades (imperfect indicative plural)
veíades (imperfect indicative plural)
viïades (imperfect indicative plural)
viíades (imperfect indicative plural)
viades (imperfect indicative plural)
víades (imperfect indicative plural)
veían (imperfect indicative plural)
viían (imperfect indicative plural)
vian (imperfect indicative plural)
veí (indicative preterite singular)
vií (indicative preterite singular)
vi (indicative preterite singular)
viste (indicative preterite singular)
viu (indicative preterite singular)
vío (indicative preterite singular)
veu (indicative preterite singular)
veo (indicative preterite singular)
vimos (indicative plural preterite)
vistes (indicative plural preterite)
viron (indicative plural preterite)
vira (indicative pluperfect singular)
viras (indicative pluperfect singular)
viramos (indicative pluperfect plural)
víramos (indicative pluperfect plural)
virades (indicative pluperfect plural)
vírades (indicative pluperfect plural)
viran (indicative pluperfect plural)
veerei (future indicative singular)
verei (future indicative singular)
veerás (future indicative singular)
verás (future indicative singular)
veerá (future indicative singular)
verá (future indicative singular)
veeremos (future indicative plural)
veremos (future indicative plural)
veeredes (future indicative plural)
veredes (future indicative plural)
veerán (future indicative plural)
verán (future indicative plural)
veeria (conditional indicative singular)
veria (conditional indicative singular)
veerias (conditional indicative singular)
verias (conditional indicative singular)
veeriamos (conditional indicative plural)
veriamos (conditional indicative plural)
veeríamos (conditional indicative plural)
veríamos (conditional indicative plural)
veeriades (conditional indicative plural)
veriades (conditional indicative plural)
veeríades (conditional indicative plural)
veríades (conditional indicative plural)
veerian (conditional indicative plural)
verian (conditional indicative plural)
veja (present singular subjunctive)
vejas (present singular subjunctive)
vejamos (plural present subjunctive)
vejades (plural present subjunctive)
vejan (plural present subjunctive)
visse (preterite singular subjunctive)
visses (preterite singular subjunctive)
víssemos (plural preterite subjunctive)
víssedes (plural preterite subjunctive)
vissen (plural preterite subjunctive)
vir (future singular subjunctive)
vires (future singular subjunctive)
virmos (future plural subjunctive)
virdes (future plural subjunctive)
viren (future plural subjunctive)
vee (singular)
vê (singular)
vei (singular)
veja (singular)
vejamos (plural)
veede (plural)
vede (plural)
non *vejas (negative singular)
non *veja (negative singular)
non *vejamos (negative plural)
non *vejades (negative plural)
veer (imperative infinitive personal singular)
ver (imperative infinitive personal singular)
veeres (infinitive personal singular)
veres (infinitive personal singular)
veer (infinitive personal singular)
ver (infinitive personal singular)
veermos (infinitive personal plural)
vermos (infinitive personal plural)
veerdes (infinitive personal plural)
verdes (infinitive personal plural)
veeren (infinitive personal plural)
veren (infinitive personal plural)

Galician: ver

Portuguese: ver

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


veer

es-verb

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

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