Definition of spleen in English:

spleen

noun spliːnsplin

1Anatomy
An abdominal organ involved in the production and removal of blood cells in most vertebrates and forming part of the immune system.
Example sentencesExamples
- If the same experiment is done with spleens, however, each spleen grows much less than normal so that the final total mass of the spleens is equivalent to one normal spleen.
- The lateral approach provides an excellent view of the splenic vessels, pancreas, and accessory spleens.
- Glass particles were found in the pulmonary capillaries, livers, kidneys, spleens, and intestinal walls of animals studied.
- They also transplanted hepatocytes into patients' spleens to act as a short-term auxiliary liver.
- These lesions have been reported in the brain, 3 lymph nodes, 4 spleens, 5 lungs, 6 and several other sites.
2mass noun Bad temper; spite.
he could vent his spleen on the institutions which had duped him
Example sentencesExamples
- The Dunblane boy chose to hit a backhand and vent his spleen by complaining about the high expectations of the British media.
- He'll be making the odd post whenever he feels he has something to say or has to vent his spleen.
- The world has changed for the worse in the last year and bigots feel more empowered to vent their spleen.
- Every week or so we allow lucky old you the chance to vent your spleen at a useless celebrity.
- As for the money, the people of Tasmania are entitled to be outraged and need to vent their spleen at the ballot box.
- Well written, possibly, but for me it's my own place to vent my spleen at the general vacuity and stupidity of the world as I see it.
- That is debatable, but people who hate each other do not always require guns to vent their spleen.
- In private, feel free to vent your spleen, cry, denounce the other party as a loathsome cad.
- Initially I had the idea that if I could vent my spleen about life events it would be a cathartic exercise.
- On eviction you will also be required to visit the diary room to vent your spleen and dish the dirt as you see fit.
- No sisterhood here: both Anna and Claire vent their spleen upon her with hilariously withering spite.
- I had an email from BobbyJo who clearly needed to vent her spleen.
- In an echo of the bad old times, more than 200 fans gathered outside afterwards to vent their spleen.
- Every now and again - usually these days in grand slam finals - they get the chance to vent their spleen and lay into each other in public.
- If only there'd been a forum for me to vent my spleen when I had a sponging twat of a lodger a few years back.
- One particularly irritated chap emailed us, presumably to vent his spleen.
- Furious residents gathered at a parish council meeting to vent their spleen at a proposed skate park on their doorsteps.
- Want to vent your spleen over how great or appalling our list is?
- So blogging will be light for the next two weeks or so, until I find a new equilibrium, or a compelling reason to vent my spleen.
- This is not the best time for fans to vent their spleen against the club's directors, who are not due to attend.
Synonyms
bad temper, bad mood, ill temper, ill humour, annoyance, anger, wrath, vexation, crossness, irritation, displeasure, dissatisfaction, irritability, irascibility, cantankerousness, peevishness, petulance, pettishness, pique, querulousness, crabbiness, testiness, tetchiness, snappishness, waspishness, touchiness, moodiness, sullenness, resentment, rancour, biliousness, sourness
spite, spitefulness, ill feeling, malice, maliciousness, bitterness, animosity, antipathy, hostility, malevolence, venom, gall, malignance, malignity, acrimony, bile, hatred, hate
literary ire, choler

Derivatives

spleenful

adjective ˈspliːnfʊlˈsplinf(ə)l

archaic

Bad-tempered; spiteful.
that steely, spleenful gaze
Example sentencesExamples
- I didn't want to be so spleenful and bileful and moaning and groaning and complaining and whining about the misfortunes of the past.
- Then came a spleenful Soglin, who attacked the municipal revenue-sharing policies of the stunned Governor…
- The spiteful, mean and spleenful invections of the gutter press always amuse me.

Origin

Middle English: shortening of Old French esplen, via Latin from Greek splēn; sense 2 derives from the earlier belief that the spleen was the seat of bad temper.

Rhymes

Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean

Definition of spleen in US English:

spleen

nounsplēnsplin

1Anatomy
An abdominal organ involved in the production and removal of blood cells in most vertebrates and forming part of the immune system.
Example sentencesExamples
- Glass particles were found in the pulmonary capillaries, livers, kidneys, spleens, and intestinal walls of animals studied.
- If the same experiment is done with spleens, however, each spleen grows much less than normal so that the final total mass of the spleens is equivalent to one normal spleen.
- The lateral approach provides an excellent view of the splenic vessels, pancreas, and accessory spleens.
- These lesions have been reported in the brain, 3 lymph nodes, 4 spleens, 5 lungs, 6 and several other sites.
- They also transplanted hepatocytes into patients' spleens to act as a short-term auxiliary liver.
2Bad temper; spite.
he could vent his spleen on the institutions that had duped him
Example sentencesExamples
- I had an email from BobbyJo who clearly needed to vent her spleen.
- Initially I had the idea that if I could vent my spleen about life events it would be a cathartic exercise.
- Want to vent your spleen over how great or appalling our list is?
- As for the money, the people of Tasmania are entitled to be outraged and need to vent their spleen at the ballot box.
- Every now and again - usually these days in grand slam finals - they get the chance to vent their spleen and lay into each other in public.
- So blogging will be light for the next two weeks or so, until I find a new equilibrium, or a compelling reason to vent my spleen.
- This is not the best time for fans to vent their spleen against the club's directors, who are not due to attend.
- Furious residents gathered at a parish council meeting to vent their spleen at a proposed skate park on their doorsteps.
- That is debatable, but people who hate each other do not always require guns to vent their spleen.
- In private, feel free to vent your spleen, cry, denounce the other party as a loathsome cad.
- No sisterhood here: both Anna and Claire vent their spleen upon her with hilariously withering spite.
- Well written, possibly, but for me it's my own place to vent my spleen at the general vacuity and stupidity of the world as I see it.
- The Dunblane boy chose to hit a backhand and vent his spleen by complaining about the high expectations of the British media.
- One particularly irritated chap emailed us, presumably to vent his spleen.
- In an echo of the bad old times, more than 200 fans gathered outside afterwards to vent their spleen.
- The world has changed for the worse in the last year and bigots feel more empowered to vent their spleen.
- He'll be making the odd post whenever he feels he has something to say or has to vent his spleen.
- If only there'd been a forum for me to vent my spleen when I had a sponging twat of a lodger a few years back.
- On eviction you will also be required to visit the diary room to vent your spleen and dish the dirt as you see fit.
- Every week or so we allow lucky old you the chance to vent your spleen at a useless celebrity.
Synonyms
bad temper, bad mood, ill temper, ill humour, annoyance, anger, wrath, vexation, crossness, irritation, displeasure, dissatisfaction, irritability, irascibility, cantankerousness, peevishness, petulance, pettishness, pique, querulousness, crabbiness, testiness, tetchiness, snappishness, waspishness, touchiness, moodiness, sullenness, resentment, rancour, biliousness, sourness

Origin

Middle English: shortening of Old French esplen, via Latin from Greek splēn; spleen (sense 2) derives from the earlier belief that the spleen was the seat of bad temper.

单词	spleen
释义	Definition of spleen in English: spleen noun spliːnsplin 1Anatomy An abdominal organ involved in the production and removal of blood cells in most vertebrates and forming part of the immune system. Example sentencesExamples If the same experiment is done with spleens, however, each spleen grows much less than normal so that the final total mass of the spleens is equivalent to one normal spleen. The lateral approach provides an excellent view of the splenic vessels, pancreas, and accessory spleens. Glass particles were found in the pulmonary capillaries, livers, kidneys, spleens, and intestinal walls of animals studied. They also transplanted hepatocytes into patients' spleens to act as a short-term auxiliary liver. These lesions have been reported in the brain, 3 lymph nodes, 4 spleens, 5 lungs, 6 and several other sites. 2mass noun Bad temper; spite. he could vent his spleen on the institutions which had duped him Example sentencesExamples The Dunblane boy chose to hit a backhand and vent his spleen by complaining about the high expectations of the British media. He'll be making the odd post whenever he feels he has something to say or has to vent his spleen. The world has changed for the worse in the last year and bigots feel more empowered to vent their spleen. Every week or so we allow lucky old you the chance to vent your spleen at a useless celebrity. As for the money, the people of Tasmania are entitled to be outraged and need to vent their spleen at the ballot box. Well written, possibly, but for me it's my own place to vent my spleen at the general vacuity and stupidity of the world as I see it. That is debatable, but people who hate each other do not always require guns to vent their spleen. In private, feel free to vent your spleen, cry, denounce the other party as a loathsome cad. Initially I had the idea that if I could vent my spleen about life events it would be a cathartic exercise. On eviction you will also be required to visit the diary room to vent your spleen and dish the dirt as you see fit. No sisterhood here: both Anna and Claire vent their spleen upon her with hilariously withering spite. I had an email from BobbyJo who clearly needed to vent her spleen. In an echo of the bad old times, more than 200 fans gathered outside afterwards to vent their spleen. Every now and again - usually these days in grand slam finals - they get the chance to vent their spleen and lay into each other in public. If only there'd been a forum for me to vent my spleen when I had a sponging twat of a lodger a few years back. One particularly irritated chap emailed us, presumably to vent his spleen. Furious residents gathered at a parish council meeting to vent their spleen at a proposed skate park on their doorsteps. Want to vent your spleen over how great or appalling our list is? So blogging will be light for the next two weeks or so, until I find a new equilibrium, or a compelling reason to vent my spleen. This is not the best time for fans to vent their spleen against the club's directors, who are not due to attend. Synonyms bad temper, bad mood, ill temper, ill humour, annoyance, anger, wrath, vexation, crossness, irritation, displeasure, dissatisfaction, irritability, irascibility, cantankerousness, peevishness, petulance, pettishness, pique, querulousness, crabbiness, testiness, tetchiness, snappishness, waspishness, touchiness, moodiness, sullenness, resentment, rancour, biliousness, sourness spite, spitefulness, ill feeling, malice, maliciousness, bitterness, animosity, antipathy, hostility, malevolence, venom, gall, malignance, malignity, acrimony, bile, hatred, hate literary ire, choler Derivatives spleenful adjective ˈspliːnfʊlˈsplinf(ə)l archaic Bad-tempered; spiteful. that steely, spleenful gaze Example sentencesExamples I didn't want to be so spleenful and bileful and moaning and groaning and complaining and whining about the misfortunes of the past. Then came a spleenful Soglin, who attacked the municipal revenue-sharing policies of the stunned Governor… The spiteful, mean and spleenful invections of the gutter press always amuse me. Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French esplen, via Latin from Greek splēn; sense 2 derives from the earlier belief that the spleen was the seat of bad temper. Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean Definition of spleen in US English: spleen nounsplēnsplin 1Anatomy An abdominal organ involved in the production and removal of blood cells in most vertebrates and forming part of the immune system. Example sentencesExamples Glass particles were found in the pulmonary capillaries, livers, kidneys, spleens, and intestinal walls of animals studied. If the same experiment is done with spleens, however, each spleen grows much less than normal so that the final total mass of the spleens is equivalent to one normal spleen. The lateral approach provides an excellent view of the splenic vessels, pancreas, and accessory spleens. These lesions have been reported in the brain, 3 lymph nodes, 4 spleens, 5 lungs, 6 and several other sites. They also transplanted hepatocytes into patients' spleens to act as a short-term auxiliary liver. 2Bad temper; spite. he could vent his spleen on the institutions that had duped him Example sentencesExamples I had an email from BobbyJo who clearly needed to vent her spleen. Initially I had the idea that if I could vent my spleen about life events it would be a cathartic exercise. Want to vent your spleen over how great or appalling our list is? As for the money, the people of Tasmania are entitled to be outraged and need to vent their spleen at the ballot box. Every now and again - usually these days in grand slam finals - they get the chance to vent their spleen and lay into each other in public. So blogging will be light for the next two weeks or so, until I find a new equilibrium, or a compelling reason to vent my spleen. This is not the best time for fans to vent their spleen against the club's directors, who are not due to attend. Furious residents gathered at a parish council meeting to vent their spleen at a proposed skate park on their doorsteps. That is debatable, but people who hate each other do not always require guns to vent their spleen. In private, feel free to vent your spleen, cry, denounce the other party as a loathsome cad. No sisterhood here: both Anna and Claire vent their spleen upon her with hilariously withering spite. Well written, possibly, but for me it's my own place to vent my spleen at the general vacuity and stupidity of the world as I see it. The Dunblane boy chose to hit a backhand and vent his spleen by complaining about the high expectations of the British media. One particularly irritated chap emailed us, presumably to vent his spleen. In an echo of the bad old times, more than 200 fans gathered outside afterwards to vent their spleen. The world has changed for the worse in the last year and bigots feel more empowered to vent their spleen. He'll be making the odd post whenever he feels he has something to say or has to vent his spleen. If only there'd been a forum for me to vent my spleen when I had a sponging twat of a lodger a few years back. On eviction you will also be required to visit the diary room to vent your spleen and dish the dirt as you see fit. Every week or so we allow lucky old you the chance to vent your spleen at a useless celebrity. Synonyms bad temper, bad mood, ill temper, ill humour, annoyance, anger, wrath, vexation, crossness, irritation, displeasure, dissatisfaction, irritability, irascibility, cantankerousness, peevishness, petulance, pettishness, pique, querulousness, crabbiness, testiness, tetchiness, snappishness, waspishness, touchiness, moodiness, sullenness, resentment, rancour, biliousness, sourness Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French esplen, via Latin from Greek splēn; spleen (sense 2) derives from the earlier belief that the spleen was the seat of bad temper.
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