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See also: Appendix:Variations of "vet"

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of veterinarian.

Noun

vet (plural vets)

  1. (colloquial) A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.
    • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎:
      Colin Cameron, a vet who examined the dead animal, said there was "no doubt the kitten would have suffered unnecessarily" before dying.
Derived terms
  • vet tech
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of veteran.

Noun

vet (plural vets)

  1. (colloquial, US) A veteran (a former soldier or other member of armed forces).
    • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 73:
      “A former soldier, sir. A vet. Theyʼre all vets, a little shellshocked.”
Usage notes

Although veteran can be used in many contexts such as sports or business to describe someone with many years of experience, vet is usually used only for former military personnel.

Translations

Etymology 3

Possibly by analogy from Etymology 1, in the sense of "verifying the soundness [of an animal]"

Verb

vet (third-person singular simple present vets, present participle vetting, simple past and past participle vetted)

  1. To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.
    The FBI vets all nominees to the Federal bench.
    • 1980 March 10, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Economy Drive”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby (Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne):
      Sir Humphrey Appleby: Nevertheless we do not admit it (the existence of MI6). Not everyone round this table has been vetted (pun). / Jim Hacker: I thought that's something you do to cats (laugh track). / Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes indeed, but not ferrets, Minister (laugh track).
    • 2000 September, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination in Tibet‎, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, →OCLC, page 116:
      41 year-old Thupten from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture confirmed this threat of punishment. “The people in my area were very discontent when an election was announced. We knew that the candidates selected had already been carefully vetted by higher Chinese officials, and that our ‘voting’ was mere lip-service to Chinese claims of democracy, but we did it anyway.
    • 2023, “How a Bill Becomes a Law”, in mnnurses.org‎:
      House and Senate Committees are made up of elected legislators who vet the bill and hear from stakeholders and members of the public.
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Albanian

Alternative forms

Noun

vet

  1. alternative form of vetë

Adjective

i vet

  1. his, her or their own
    Aleksandri është me Albanin dhe qenin e vet.
    Aleksandër is with Alban and his (own) dog.

Usage notes

Used in contexts where i tij (“his”), i saj (“her”) or i tyre (“their”) would be ambiguous. In the example sentence above, if "e vet" were replaced with "e tij", it would more likely refer to Alban's dog. The use of "vet" removes this ambiguity.

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

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More information determiners, pronouns ...
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Blagar

Noun

vet

  1. coconut

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin vetō.

Alternative forms

Noun

vet m (plural vets)

  1. veto

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin videte, second-person plural present imperative of videō (“to see”). Compare French voici, voilà.

Adverb

vet

  1. there is
    vet aquí
    here's
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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

vet

  1. genitive plural of veto

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vet, from Old Dutch fētit, fet, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid, originally a past participle.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vet (comparative vetter, superlative vetst)

  1. fat
    Synonym: dik
  2. greasy
    Synonym: vettig
  3. emphatical, (in print) bold
    Synonyms: vetjes, dikgedrukt
  4. (informal) cool
    Synonyms: dik, lauw, cool
    Wow, vet! ― Wow, cool!

Declension

More information Declension of, uninflected ...

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: vet
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: fete
  • Negerhollands: vet, fet
  • → Papiamentu: vèt

Noun

vet n (plural vetten)

  1. fat
  2. grease

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Berbice Creole Dutch: fete

Adverb

vet

  1. (colloquial) very
    Hij is vet dik. ― He's very fat.

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Hungarian

Ingrian

Middle Dutch

Mwotlap

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Nynorsk

Old Swedish

Swedish

Vurës

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