vera

UK /ˈvɪəɹə/ US /ˈvɪɹə/

noun 2name 2

Collocations

ADJ.

common, good, tender, vain

VERB + VERA

call, explained, go, going, killed, knitted, meet, pioneering

VERA + NOUN

-, easter, klingon, minute, rubin, sergey, sweater, velikonskaja

PREP.

down, in, on, with, with

ADV.

always, once

Definitions

noun

A skin (rolling paper for cigarettes).

Has anybody got any veras? Lovely!

noun

A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the risk-free interest rate, or equivalently the rate of change of rho with respect to changes in the volatility of t

name

A female given name from Russian.

Good night, my Vera. Mind, I shall always call you Vera. It sounds so Russian and nice, and is much prettier than Vere.

I killed Vera Cross - - - .I had known her for about three months, and never ceased to wonder if her parents, when they gave her a name, had been totally illiterate or wilfully blasphemous.

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Has anybody got any veras? Lovely!

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Good night, my Vera. Mind, I shall always call you Vera. It sounds so Russian and nice, and is much prettier than Vere.

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I killed Vera Cross - - - .I had known her for about three months, and never ceased to wonder if her parents, when they gave her a name, had been totally illiterate or wilfully blasphemous.

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Pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin once mentored fellow aspiring female astronomers and advocated for women in science. It’s fitting that the first national US observatory named for a female as

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Who will see Vera will love her.

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Vera had to disassociate herself from her former best friends, who got into drugs.

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In some senses, vera is marked as slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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