Veil (disambiguation)
Veil or similar may mean:
- Veil, an article of clothing
- Veil, a curtain or cloth hanging used in architecture, especially in a temple to separate a public space from a space reserved for the priesthood, or within a mosque to separate worshipers by gender.
Look up veil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Veil or similar may also mean:
In biology
- Veil (mycology), in mycology is a part of some fungi
- Veil, a name given to the caul, a membrane sometimes found on the face of a newborn child
- A yeast film similar to flor, developing at the surface of wine in a barrel
Family name
- Hans-Jürgen Veil (born 1946), a German wrestler
- Rüdiger Veil (born 1966), a German legal scholar
- Simone Veil (1927–2017), a French lawyer and politician
- Theodor Veil (1879-1965), a German architect
Popular culture
In fiction
- Veil (comics), a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe
- Veil (TV series), a 2023 Singaporean television series
- Veil, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
- The Veil, a creature in Doctor Who
- The Lifted Veil, lost 1917 silent starring Ethel Barrymore
- The Veil (American TV series), a 1958 American horror/suspense anthology television series
- The Veil (2016 film), a 2016 film directed by Phil Joanou and starring Jessica Alba
- The Veil (2017 film), a 2017 film directed by Brent Ryan Green
- Veil, a subordinate gateway realm that connects reality with the Black Sun dimension in the 2009 video game Wolfenstein
- The Veil (South Korean TV series), a 2021 television series
In nonfiction
- Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, a 1987 book by political reporter Bob Woodward
In music
- Veil (album), a 1993 album by Band of Susans
- The Veils, a UK-based rock band
- Veil, a Korean music group
- The Veil (album)
In other uses
- Veil (cosmetics), used to fixate the makeup and give a finish
- VEIL, an acronym for Video Encoded Invisible Light, a technology for encoding low-bandwidth digital data bitstream in video signal for communication, also used as a Digital Rights Management tool
See also
Look up veil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Vail (disambiguation)
- Vejle, a town in Denmark
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.