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View definitions for capillary

capillary

noun as in blood vessel

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noun as in vein

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Example Sentences

Most drivers using this road are headed to and from a handful of capillary valleys in the Pech.

That was an axiom on which was founded a vigorous war against all capillary adornments.

The leakage takes place, if not along cracks, through capillary channels, which are everywhere present in sea-ice.

Of course you have to keep wetting it, for hair will not draw oil fast enough by capillary action.

These craft look as though they ought to sink by mere capillary attraction.

This is called capillary attraction, the word capillary meaning a hair.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to capillary, such as: artery, vein, arteriole, metarteriole, and venule.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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