VAS (vasa)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: vasa   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vas mean? 

• VAS (noun)
  The noun VAS has 1 sense:

1. a tube in which a body fluid circulates

  Familiarity information: VAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tube in which a body fluid circulates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

vas; vessel

Hypernyms ("vas" is a kind of...):

tube; tube-shaped structure ((anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vas"):

blood vessel (a vessel in which blood circulates)

Holonyms ("vas" is a part of...):

vascular system (the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant)

 Context examples 

Vell, your R’yal ’Ighness, it vas like this.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mutation of the gene is associated with cystic fibrosis and congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens.

(CFTR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A convoluted tube connecting the efferent ductules of the testicle to the vas deferens.

(Duct of the Epididymis, NCI Thesaurus)

Bilateral tubes formed by the joining of the vas deferens and the excretory duct of the seminal vesicle which merge into the urethra after passing through the prostate.

(Ejaculatory Duct, NCI Thesaurus)

They vas lyin’ in the kennel three deep all down Tottenham Court road wid their ’ands to their sides just vit to break themselves in two.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yell, boys, that vas vat I wondered, when sudden I seed two legs a-stickin’ up out o’ the crowd a long vay off, just like these two vingers, d’ye see, and I knewed they vas Bob’s legs, seein’ that ’e ’ad kind o’ yellow small clothes vid blue ribbons—vich blue vas ’is colour—at the knee.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ven the day came round, all the volk came to Figg’s Amphitheatre, the same that vos in Tottenham Court, an’ Bob Vittaker ’e vos there, and the Eytalian Gondoleery cove ’e vas there, and all the purlitest, genteelest crowd that ever vos, twenty thousand of ’em, all sittin’ with their ’eads like purtaties on a barrer, banked right up round the stage, and me there to pick up Bob, d’ye see, and Jack Figg ’imself just for fair play to do vot was right by the cove from voreign parts.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At virst ’e vas that dazed that ’e didn’t know if ’e vas in church or in ’Orsemonger Gaol; but ven I’d bit ’is two ears ’e shook ’isself together. ‘Ve’ll try it again, Buck,’ says ’e. ‘The mark!’ says I. And ’e vinked all that vas left o’ one eye.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I vas coming up in the Bristol coach yesterday, and the guard he told me that he had vifteen thousand pound in hard gold in the boot that had been zent up to back our man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They vas packed all round, the folks was, but down through the middle of ’em was a passage just so as the gentry could come through to their seats, and the stage it vas of wood, as the custom then vas, and a man’s ’eight above the ’eads of the people.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)