What's the difference between unveil and veil?

Unveil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.
  • (v. i.) To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
  • (2) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
  • (3) However, it will be at least two weeks before Tian Tian and Yang Guang are unveiled properly to the public.
  • (4) The first tranche of spending cuts was unveiled not by the chancellor, but by David Laws.
  • (5) He was due to unveil the plan next week but the announcement was postponed when one of his deputies, Ray Lewis, was forced to stand down on Friday, following allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.
  • (6) The new methane rules – which will be formally unveiled on Wednesday - are the last big chance for Obama to fight climate change.
  • (7) The ECB acted decisively when bank liquidity was drying up in late 2011, unveiling a wall of money with its LTRO programme.
  • (8) The latest update came as Wal-Mart unveiled flat first-quarter earnings.
  • (9) The government is expected to unveil its next five-year economic plan by June, following the 2010-2015 growth and transformation plan – probably maintaining a focus on infrastructure, including links to neighbouring economies.
  • (10) The slogan will be unveiled at a rally in Warwick tomorrow, but Alexander gave no hint of Gordon Brown calling an election before 6 May, emphasising the need for a slow reappraisal of Labour to take root.
  • (11) Rather, it's because because policymakers and administrators have come to treat higher education as a commercial marketplace, rather than a public trust – and stop-gap student loan reforms like those "unveiled" by President Obama this week fail to confront this ethical dilemma underlying the debt pile.
  • (12) The plans to be unveiled on Monday also include “ iPlay” a “safe space” of edited content for children, free of advertising .
  • (13) Witty's comments came as GSK unveiled lower first half sales and profits, and a further £500m of cost cuts by the end of 2015.
  • (14) Mandelson, who today unveiled plans to introduce measures including suspending the internet connections of illegal downloaders , argued that while less draconian than the French plan, the UK's approach would be tough enough to tackle online piracy.
  • (15) A green investment bank or fund is expected to be unveiled in Alastair Darling's budget tomorrow.
  • (16) Last month US Treasury officials unveiled new rules to make it harder for American companies to complete tax inversion deals.
  • (17) However, less than twelve hours before the Hogan-Howe report was due to be unveiled, HMIC announced the report would be postponed.
  • (18) Further, in a vain attempt for a boost in the Hoosier State, Cruz unveiled former rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he receives the nomination and was able to cajole the state’s sitting governor, Mike Pence, into an endorsement.
  • (19) France and Germany have joined Britain in unveiling plans to restrict benefits for European Union migrants, as David Cameron prepares for a clash with Brussels over the historic principle of free movement.
  • (20) Then yesterday Osborne made everything worse by unveiling a completely contradictory poster (he does know that abolishing the "jobs tax" will increase the debt, right?)

Veil


Definition:

  • (n.) Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
  • (n.) A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  • (n.) The calyptra of mosses.
  • (n.) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
  • (n.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
  • (n.) Same as Velum, 3.
  • (n.) To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
  • (n.) Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He argued that it was vital that we “should give the people of this country a chance to decide”, and that “[the nation was witnessing] a continuation of that old and disastrous system where a few men in charge of the state, wielding the whole force of the state, make secret engagements and secret arrangements, carefully veiled from the knowledge of the people…” This, and a lot more little-known information on the road to the first world war is given in Douglas Newton’s book The Darkest Days .
  • (2) Isis cannot just be contained – it must be defeated,” Clinton began, in veiled criticism of Barack Obama’s claim just before the attacks that Isis was contained in Syria and Iraq.
  • (3) The surface antigens of veiled cells (VC) isolated from the thoracic duct of mesenteric lymphadenectomized (MLNX) mice have been analyzed by means of monoclonal antibodies and compared with those of dendritic cells (DC) from the spleen, lymph node dendritic cells (LNDC) and peritoneal macrophages (PMO).
  • (4) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
  • (5) Gas will be a very economic option [for decades] unless there are new government policies and new fiscal measures to change the balance.” Birol issued a veiled warning to Trump that policy should be based on the realities of the energy sector: “We give the same advice to all leaders across the world: making decisions about the energy sector needs good information and an overview of developments, including technological improvements.
  • (6) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
  • (7) In studies involving nearly intact animal preparations, neurons were identified which control specific movements of the dorsal cerata, the oral veil tentacles, and the margins of the foot.
  • (8) An investigation by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem concluded that while she did have a knife under her niqab veil she posed no threat to soldiers at the time she was shot and could have been subdued without being fatally wounded.
  • (9) The Liberal Democrat culture spokesman, Don Foster, added: "The veil must be lifted even further so that the public can judge whether they are getting good value for money."
  • (10) The ruling followed calls by the Home Office minister, Jeremy Browne, for a national debate on whether the state should step in to prevent young women having the veil imposed upon them.
  • (11) These features included cell flattening with the formation of thin, veil-like structures into the eroded area by cells at the edges of the erosions.
  • (12) • Apple has been able to draw a secrecy veil over its Irish operations by making extensive use of unlimited companies, which are not required to file company accounts.
  • (13) He was told to wait his turn then, and the political establishment has again told him to wait to run for president out of deference to party elders, Rubio recalls in a thinly veiled reference to Bush.
  • (14) But in a veiled reference to those in the Conservative party and their backers in the rightwing press pushing for a hard Brexit, he implied that there were people in the UK who still had to catch up.
  • (15) For many of his generation, the growing of long beards and women wearing face veils is as much a sign of a higher economic status achieved from working abroad as piety.
  • (16) In his speech in London, Garcia called for a culture change among Fifa’s leadership and called for an end to the prevailing veil of secrecy at the Zurich-based governing body.
  • (17) "I really believe in a society where if someone wants to walk in the street completely naked they will be able to, and if someone wants to wear a veil they will also be able to."
  • (18) But most of them were the first members of their family to adopt the veil, the majority had no niqab-wearing peers, their attendance at their mosque was minimal, and their affiliation to any Islamic bodies almost nonexistent.
  • (19) That solace, however, is hard to sustain when a new veil of secrecy is about to be thrown over another element of state power.
  • (20) At a “victory party” for Clinton supporters, under the veil of a glass ceiling that was meant to be an epic symbol of a historic night when gender barriers were swept aside, there was a bleak mood.