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Vet   /vɛt/   Listen
Vet

noun
1.
A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.  Synonyms: veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon.
2.
A person who has served in the armed forces.  Synonyms: ex-serviceman, veteran.
verb
1.
Work as a veterinarian.
2.
Examine carefully.
3.
Provide (a person) with medical care.
4.
Provide veterinary care for.



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"Vet" Quotes from Famous Books



... which Nature permits Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits, And the vet's unspoken prescription runs To lethal chambers or loaded guns, Then you will find—it's your own affair, But ... you've given your heart to a dog ...
— Songs from Books • Rudyard Kipling
... in prolem facile diffunditur, ne genus humanum foeda contagione laedatur, juventute castratur, mulieres tales procul a consortio virorum ablegantur, &c. Hector Boethius hist. lib. 1. de vet. ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... and butcher, for she knew what they were used to getting, and he had heard so much talk from Marcia about bills since he bought that Events stock that he was sick of the prices of things. There was no extravagance, and vet he seemed to live very much better after Marcia went. There is no doubt but he lived very much more at his ease. One little restriction after another fell away from him; he went and came with absolute freedom, not only without having to account for his movements, but without having ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... a vet. at this time of night," objected Vernon. "Even the chemist will be busy with minor casualties. No, I won't worry the management. I've ...
— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman
... to look on, and heals in no time. But know, my good sir, that this wounded man is my chaplain, and plays piquet with me. Are you the man to put him on his legs again, notwithstanding your looks, which are rather those of a vet?" ...
— The Queen Pedauque • Anatole France


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