vine, Plant whose stem requires support and that climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground, or the stem of such a plant. Examples include bittersweet, most grapes, some honeysuckles, ivy, lianas, and

ocotillo, (Fouquieria splendens), flowering spiny shrub (family Fouquieriaceae) characteristic of rocky deserts from western Texas to southern California and southward into Mexico. Near the plant’s base, the stem divides into several slender, erect, wide-spreading, intensely spiny branches, usually

maple: The vine maple (A. circinatum), of wide-spreading, shrubby habit, has purple and white spring flowers and brilliant fall foliage. The shrubby Siebold maple (A. sieboldianum) has seven- to nine-lobed leaves that turn red in fall.

vine snake, any of several venomous, rear-fanged snakes of the family Colubridae that have slender bodies, narrow heads, and pointed snouts. Vine snakes typically belong to the genera Ahaetulla (Asian vine snakes), Oxybelis (New World vine snakes), and Thelotornis (African vine snakes); however,

green snake: aestivus), often called vine snake, is about 75 cm (23 inches) long.

Ruth Rendell was a British writer of mystery novels, psychological crime novels, and short stories who was perhaps best known for her novels featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford. Rendell initially worked as a reporter and copy editor for West Essex newspapers. Her first novel, From Doon with

plate tectonics: Reversal of Earth’s magnetic field: …Cambridge and a research student, Frederick J. Vine, postulated in 1963 that the new crust would have a magnetization aligned with the field at the time of its formation. If the magnetic field was normal, as it is today, the magnetization of the crust would be added to that of…

plate tectonics: The Vine-Matthews hypothesis: In 1961 a magnetic survey of the eastern Pacific Ocean floor off the coast of Oregon and California was published by two geophysicists, Arthur D. Raff and Ronald G. Mason. Unlike on the continents, where regional magnetic anomaly patterns (that is,…

Cornelius Otto Jansen: Condemnation of Jansen’s teachings: …XI in 1705 the bull Vineam Domini, which renewed the earlier condemnations. In 1709 Louis XIV ordered the dispersal of the nuns of Port-Royal into diverse convents, and he had the abbey destroyed in 1710. He then obtained in 1713 the bull Unigenitus Dei Filius, which condemned 101 propositions of…

Arthur Martin Vineberg was a Canadian heart surgeon, noted chiefly for his development, in 1950, of a surgical procedure for correction of impaired coronary circulation. Vineberg received his M.S. degree (1928) and his Ph.D. (1933) in physiology from McGill University, Montreal. He studied in Paris

vinegar, sour liquid that is made by the fermentation of any of numerous dilute alcoholic liquids into a liquid containing acetic acid. Vinegar may be produced from a variety of materials: apples or grapes (wine or cider vinegar); malted barley or oats (malt vinegar); and industrial alcohol

vinegar fly, (genus Drosophila), any member of a genus in the small fruit fly family, Drosophilidae (order Diptera). Drosophila species number about 1,500. Some species, particularly D. melanogaster, are used extensively in laboratory and field experiments on genetics and evolution because they are

Anne Tyler: Vinegar Girl (2016), a retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, was written for the Hogarth Shakespeare series. In 2018 Tyler released Clock Dance. Redhead by the Side of the Road (2020) centers on a tech expert who finds his highly organized life…

Colm Tóibín: Other writings and achievements: …his first collection of poems, Vinegar Hill, in 2022. That same year the Arts Council of Ireland selected Tóibín as the Laureate for Irish Fiction, a position that is held for a three-year term. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American…

Film Preservation: A Dire Need: Once a print develops vinegar syndrome, the degradation is irreversible.

vinegarroon, species of whip scorpion

Thomas Pynchon: Pynchon’s next novel, Vineland—which begins in 1984 in California—was not published until 1990. Two vast, complex historical novels followed: in Mason & Dixon (1997), set in the 18th century, Pynchon took the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon as his subject, and Against the Day (2006) moves…

Vineland, city, Cumberland county, southern New Jersey, U.S, about 35 miles (56 km) south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It lies along the Maurice River (there dammed for flood control and drainage). The community was established in 1861 when Charles K. Landis purchased a 32,000-acre

Jacob Viner was a Canadian-born American economist who made major contributions to the theory of cost and production, international economics, and the history of economics. Viner graduated from McGill University (1914) and then immigrated to the United States, obtaining his Ph.D. from Harvard

Katharine Viner is a British journalist and editor who became the first woman to serve as editor in chief (2015– ) of The Guardian. Interested in journalism from her teens, Viner published her first article in The Guardian—one of the United Kingdom’s most-influential daily newspapers—in 1987 while

H. Ellsworth Vines, Jr. was a U.S. tennis player of the 1930s who bounced back after a series of losses at age 18 to win the Wimbledon and U.S. singles championships. A versatile athlete, he attended the University of Southern California on a basketball scholarship before making his tennis debut on

H. Ellsworth Vines, Jr. was a U.S. tennis player of the 1930s who bounced back after a series of losses at age 18 to win the Wimbledon and U.S. singles championships. A versatile athlete, he attended the University of Southern California on a basketball scholarship before making his tennis debut on

Alexandre-Rodolphe Vinet was a French-Swiss theologian, moralist, and literary critic who was instrumental in establishing the Reformation in French-speaking Switzerland. After studying theology at the University of Lausanne, he taught French at the University of Basel (1817–37) before returning to

Guadalquivir River: …supports the rich agriculture of Andalusia, and engineering improvements have aided the industrialization of towns along its course.

deafness on Martha’s Vineyard, phenomenon in which a disproportionate percentage of the population living on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, U.S., was affected by a hereditary form of deafness. The overall rate of Vineyard deafness peaked in the 19th

James Hong: Career: …including the 1989 horror film The Vineyard, which he also starred in.

singularity: …article titled “Technological Singularity” by Vernor Vinge, a computer scientist and science fiction author. Vinge imagined that future information networks and human-machine interfaces would lead to novel conditions with new qualities: “a new reality rules.” But there was a trick to knowing the singularity. Even if one could know that…

Les Vingt, group of artists who exhibited together in Belgium during the years 1891–93, having been brought together by a common interest in Symbolist painting. Like their French and German contemporaries, these painters, who were centred on Brussels, had shifted the emphasis in their works from

Les Vingt, group of artists who exhibited together in Belgium during the years 1891–93, having been brought together by a common interest in Symbolist painting. Like their French and German contemporaries, these painters, who were centred on Brussels, had shifted the emphasis in their works from

blackjack, gambling card game popular in casinos throughout the world. Its origin is disputed, but it is certainly related to several French and Italian gambling games. In Britain since World War I, the informal game has been called pontoon. Players hope to get a total card value of 21 or to come

stringed instrument: The violin family: …court of Louis XIV, whose vingt-quatre violons du Roi (“24 violins of the king”) was the model for Europe of the orchestra-to-be.

France: Tax reform: …tax), the capitation, and the vingtième (a form of income tax from which the nobles and officials were usually exempt). There were also indirect taxes that everyone paid: the salt tax, or gabelle, which represented nearly one-tenth of royal revenue; the traites, or customs duty, internal and external; and the…

Vinh, city, north-central Vietnam, located on the Ca River delta, 160 miles (260 km) south of Hanoi. The Ca River enters the Gulf of Tonkin just northeast of Vinh. An important trade centre for the surrounding region, the city is the focus of a densely populated agricultural area. It is also the

Cam Ranh Bay, a two-part deepwater inlet on the South China Sea, south-central Vietnam. It is approximately 20 miles (32 km) long from north to south and up to 10 miles (16 km) wide. It has been called the finest deepwater shelter in Southeast Asia. The Binh Ba Bay, or outer bay, with Binh Ba

Ha Long Bay, bay on the northwest coast of the Gulf of Tonkin, near the city of Ha Long (Hong Gai), Quang Ninh province, northern Vietnam. Situated 102 miles (164 km) southeast of Hanoi, the 580-square-mile (1,500-square-km) area contains some 3,000 rocky and earthen islands, typically in the form

Vinh Long, city, Mekong River delta region, southern Vietnam. It is a river port on the right bank of the Tien River; it has a hospital and commercial airport. It also has served as the focal point of the Roman Catholic Church in the Mekong delta; a large Catholic cathedral is located in the city.

Duy Tan was the emperor of Vietnam from 1907 to 1916 and symbol of the Vietnamese anticolonialist movement against the French before and during World War I; he became an officer and decorated hero in the French army during World War II. Vinh San was the son of Emperor Thanh Thai, who was deposed by

grape: Major species: However, it is the European wine grape (Vitis vinifera) that is used to produce most standard or higher quality wines. There are at least 5,000 reported varieties of this grape, which differ from one another in such characteristics as colour, size, and shape of berry; juice composition (including flavour);…

Vinita, city, seat (1907) of Craig county, northeastern Oklahoma, U.S. It lies northeast of Tulsa along the old Osage Trace (later Texas Road), a route used by fur trappers and pioneers in the 1880s. Founded as Downingville in 1871 when the railroads arrived, it was renamed for Vinnie Ream, who

Buddhism: Vietnam: …meditation, school was introduced by Vinitaruchi (Vinitaruci), an Indian monk who had gone to Vietnam from China in the 6th century. In the 9th century a school of “wall meditation” was introduced by the Chinese monk Vo Ngon Thong. A third major Zen school was established in the 11th century…

Buddhism: Vietnam: …meditation, school was introduced by Vinitaruchi (Vinitaruci), an Indian monk who had gone to Vietnam from China in the 6th century. In the 9th century a school of “wall meditation” was introduced by the Chinese monk Vo Ngon Thong. A third major Zen school was established in the 11th century…

Aasmund Olafson Vinje was a poet and journalist who wrote some of the finest lyric poems in Norwegian literature. The son of a poor tenant farmer, Vinje took a law degree but then struggled to support himself by teaching, writing, and working as a government clerk. In 1851 he began writing for an

Vinland, the land of wild grapes in North America that was visited and named by Leif Eriksson about the year 1000 ce. Its exact location is not known, but it was probably the area surrounding the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in what is now eastern Canada. The most detailed information about Viking visits

vijñāna, (Sanskrit), in the Buddhist chain of dependent origination, thought or knowledge giving rise to name and form. See

vijñāna-skandha, in Buddhist philosophy, one of the five skandhas, or aggregates, that constitute all that exists. Thought (vijñāna/viññāṇa) is the psychic process that results from other psychological phenomena. The simplest form is knowledge through any of the senses, particularly through the

Theodore L. De Vinne was an American author of many scholarly books on the history of typography. De Vinne entered the employ of Francis Hart, one of the leading printers in New York City, in 1849 and became a member of the firm in 1859. About 1864 he began to write on printing, at first on the

Vinnytsya, city, west-central Ukraine, lying along the Southern Buh river. It was first mentioned in historical records in 1363 as a fortress belonging to Prince Algirdas of Lithuania. Vinnytsya was often raided by the Tatars and passed later to Poland and finally, in 1793, to Russia. A trading

Vinnytsya, city, west-central Ukraine, lying along the Southern Buh river. It was first mentioned in historical records in 1363 as a fortress belonging to Prince Algirdas of Lithuania. Vinnytsya was often raided by the Tatars and passed later to Poland and finally, in 1793, to Russia. A trading

Ignazio Silone: …novels, Pane e vino (Bread and Wine, both 1937; revised as Vino e pane, 1955) and Il seme sotto la neve (1940; The Seed Beneath the Snow, 1942), portray socialist heroes who try to help the peasants by sharing their sufferings in a Christian spirit. Pane e vino was…

Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff was an Anglo-Russian legal scholar and medievalist who was perhaps the greatest authority in his time on the feudal laws and customs of England. Educated at the University of Moscow (Ph.D., 1884), Vinogradoff was appointed professor there and became active in

Vinogradov’s theorem, in number theory, theorem that all sufficiently large odd integers can be expressed as the sum of three prime numbers. As a corollary, all sufficiently large even integers can be expressed as the sum of three primes plus 3. The theorem was proved in 1937 by the Russian

Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov was a Russian mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory, especially his partial solution of the Goldbach conjecture (proposed in 1742), that every integer greater than two can be expressed as the sum of three prime numbers. In 1914 Vinogradov

Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff was an Anglo-Russian legal scholar and medievalist who was perhaps the greatest authority in his time on the feudal laws and customs of England. Educated at the University of Moscow (Ph.D., 1884), Vinogradoff was appointed professor there and became active in

Sergey Nikolayevich Winogradsky was a Russian microbiologist whose discoveries concerning the physiology of the processes of nitrification and nitrogen fixation by soil bacteria helped to establish bacteriology as a major biological science. After studying natural sciences at the University of St.

Cleveland Museum of Art: …the direction of Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly. The project involved the demolition of the 1958 and 1971 buildings and the construction of a new wing by Viñoly. The renovation and expansion was done in phases, and the entire project was completed in 2013.

parrotbill: …in Chinese cities is the vinous-throated parrotbill (Paradoxornis webbianus). Ranging from Manchuria south through China and Korea to Myanmar (Burma), it frequents bamboo groves, tea plantations, and scrub, as well as gardens. Searching out seeds, it moves in large flocks through the undergrowth and stays in contact with constant sharp…

Vinson Massif, peak in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains of western Antarctica, overlooking Ronne Ice Shelf. Discovered in 1935 by the American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, it is, at 16,050 feet (4,892 metres) above sea level, the highest mountain on the continent. The massif slopes

Fred M. Vinson was an American lawyer and the 13th chief justice of the United States, who was a vigorous supporter of a broad interpretation of federal governmental powers. Following completion of his legal studies at Center College in Danville, Ky., in 1911, Vinson entered private practice in

Fred M. Vinson was an American lawyer and the 13th chief justice of the United States, who was a vigorous supporter of a broad interpretation of federal governmental powers. Following completion of his legal studies at Center College in Danville, Ky., in 1911, Vinson entered private practice in

vint, trick-taking card game, popular around the Baltic Sea, and a significant contributor to the development of bridge. It developed from a game called Siberia, played in St. Petersburg in the 1870s. This was a form of whist exhibiting the then novel feature that the dealer announced the trump

D.M. Thomas: Vintage Ghosts (2012) is a verse novel.

John Cale: Solo career: …alternated between pop music (Vintage Violence [1970], Paris 1919 [1973], and Music for a New Society [1982]), hard rock (Fear [1974], Slow Dazzle [1975], and Helen of Troy [1975]), and classical music–influenced instrumental work (The Academy in Peril [1972] and Church of Anthrax [1971]). He also produced seminal

biblical literature: Scandinavian versions: …exiled king Christian II, by Christiern Vinter and Hans Mikkelsen (Wittenberg, 1524). In 1550 Denmark received a complete Bible commissioned by royal command (the Christian III Bible, Copenhagen). A revision appeared in 1589 (the Frederick II Bible) and another in 1633 (the Christian IV Bible).

Winter’s Tales, collection of short stories by Isak Dinesen, originally published in Danish as Vinter-eventyr in 1942 and then translated by the author into English in the same year. Mostly set against the backdrop of historic Denmark, the 11 stories trace the symbolic destinies of simple

Thomas Kingo: …was published in 1689 as Vinter-Parten (“The Winter Part”) but was later rejected by the king. Kingo’s hymns contrast this world with heaven and are deeply personal in their graphic and suggestive use of language. Underneath their Christian orthodoxy, they are both subjective and antithetical, showing the individual as immersed…

History of film: European cinema: … (1998; The Celebration), directed by Thomas Vinterberg, was well received, and dozens of films were subsequently released under the movement’s banner, including works by American and French directors as well as by Danes.

Louis XV: Already Pauline de Mailly-Nesle, marquise de Vintimille, Louis’s mistress from 1739 to 1741, had sponsored the war party that brought France into the inconclusive War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48) against Austria and Great Britain. In September 1745 the king took as his official mistress (maîtresse…

Bobby Vinton is an American pop singer who found success in the 1960s and ’70s with a series of sentimental, orchestrally arranged hits that stood in opposition to the rock vanguard of the time. Vinton grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a youth, he learned to play several brass and woodwind

Bobby Vinton is an American pop singer who found success in the 1960s and ’70s with a series of sentimental, orchestrally arranged hits that stood in opposition to the rock vanguard of the time. Vinton grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a youth, he learned to play several brass and woodwind

Ray Romano: …record promoter in HBO’s short-lived Vinyl (2016), about the 1970s music scene in New York City, and then as a washed-up movie producer in Get Shorty (2017– ). His first comedy special in over two decades, Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner, premiered on Netflix in 2019. That same…

vinyl acetate, colourless, liquid organic compound, the polymer of which is polyvinyl acetate

vinyl chloride, a colourless, flammable, toxic gas belonging to the family of organohalogen compounds and used principally in making polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, a widely used plastic with numerous applications. The major industrial preparation of vinyl chloride begins with ethylene and has two

vinyl compound, any of various organic chemical compounds, including acrylic compounds and styrene and its derivatives, that are useful in making plastic film; sheeting; upholstery; floor tile; inflatable and solid toys; buttons; molded and extruded articles; fibres for weaving into fabric;

major industrial polymers: Vinyl copolymers: In addition to the copolymers mentioned in previous sections (e.g., fluoroelastomers, modacrylics), a number of important vinyl (carbon-chain) copolymers are manufactured. These include most of the important synthetic elastomers not described in Diene polymers, along with several specialty plastics and thermoplastic elastomers. These…

plastic: The composition, structure, and properties of plastics: …polymers having only aliphatic (linear) carbon atoms in their backbone chains. All the commodity plastics listed above fall into this category. The structure of polypropylene can serve as an example; here attached to every other carbon atom is a pendant methyl group (CH3):

vinyl compound, any of various organic chemical compounds, including acrylic compounds and styrene and its derivatives, that are useful in making plastic film; sheeting; upholstery; floor tile; inflatable and solid toys; buttons; molded and extruded articles; fibres for weaving into fabric;

vinyl fluoride (H2C=CHF), a colourless, flammable, nontoxic, chemically stable gas belonging to the family of organohalogen compounds and used as the starting material in making polyvinyl fluoride, a plastic used in films for weather-resistant coatings of structural materials. Vinyl fluoride is

floor covering: Smooth-surfaced floor coverings: Vinyl asbestos tiles, containing asbestos fibres, were developed next and introduced at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933, but resin shortages prevented quantity production until 1948. Vinyl, a newer composition material with a high content of polyvinyl chloride resins, was eventually perfected. The number and…

floor covering: Smooth-surfaced floor coverings: Vinyl asbestos tiles, containing asbestos fibres, were developed next and introduced at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933, but resin shortages prevented quantity production until 1948. Vinyl, a newer composition material with a high content of polyvinyl chloride resins, was eventually perfected. The number and…

styrene, liquid hydrocarbon that is important chiefly for its marked tendency to undergo polymerization (a process in which individual molecules are linked to produce extremely large, multiple-unit molecules). Styrene is employed in the manufacture of polystyrene, an important plastic, as well as a

organohalogen compound: They are subdivided into alkyl, vinylic, aryl, and acyl halides. In alkyl halides (also called haloalkanes) all four bonds to the carbon that bears the halogen are single bonds; in vinylic halides the carbon that bears the halogen is doubly bonded to another carbon; in aryl halides (also called haloarenes)…

vinylidene chloride, a colourless, dense, toxic, volatile, flammable liquid belonging to the family of organic halogen compounds, used principally in combination with vinyl chloride, acrylonitrile, or methyl methacrylate for the manufacture of a class of plastics called saran. Vinylidene chloride

major industrial polymers: Fluoroelastomers: …produced that incorporate the monomers vinylidene fluoride (CH2=CF2), hexafluoropropylene (CF2=CFCF3), and chlorotrifluoroethylene (CF2=CFCl) in addition to tetrafluoroethylene. These elastomers have outstanding resistance to oxygen, ozone, heat, and swelling by oils, chlorinated solvents, and fuels. With service temperatures up to 250° C (480° F), they are the elastomers of choice for…

major industrial polymers: Polyvinyl chloride (PVC): …Corporation introduced the trademarked polymer Vinylite, a copolymer of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate that became the standard material of long-playing phonograph records.

silane: Chlorotrimethylsilane and vinyltrichlorosilane are used to impart water repellency to numerous materials such as cloth, paper, and glass.

Cajetan was one of the major Catholic theologians of the Thomist school. Entering the Dominican order in 1484, Cajetan studied at Bologna and Padua, where he became professor of metaphysics (1494) and where he encountered Scotism (the doctrine of John Duns Scotus, which rivalled Thomism, the

Fenrir: Odin’s son Vidar will avenge his father, stabbing the wolf to the heart according to one account and tearing his jaws asunder according to another. Fenrir figures prominently in Norwegian and Icelandic poetry of the 10th and 11th centuries, and the poets speak apprehensively of the day…

viol, bowed, stringed musical instrument used principally in chamber music of the 16th to the 18th century. The viol shares with the Renaissance lute the tuning of its six strings (two fourths, a major third, two fourths) and the gut frets on its neck. It was made in three sizes: treble, tenor, and

viol, bowed, stringed musical instrument used principally in chamber music of the 16th to the 18th century. The viol shares with the Renaissance lute the tuning of its six strings (two fourths, a major third, two fourths) and the gut frets on its neck. It was made in three sizes: treble, tenor, and

viola, stringed musical instrument, the tenor of the violin family. It is built in proportions similar to those of the violin but has a body length of 37 to 43 cm (14.5 to 17 inches), about 5 cm (2 inches) longer than a violin. Its four strings are tuned c–g–d′–a′, beginning with the C below middle

Viola, a shipwrecked young woman, later disguised as the young man Cesario, in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Viola-Cesario stands at the centre of the play as Shakespeare’s example of reason, intelligence, self-control, and mature love. For her moral stature and wit, Viola ranks with Portia and

viola, (genus Viola), genus of about 500 species of herbs or low shrubs in the family Violaceae, including the small solid-coloured violets and the larger-flowered, often multicoloured violas and pansies. Members of the genus Viola occur naturally worldwide but are found most abundantly in

viola, (genus Viola), genus of about 500 species of herbs or low shrubs in the family Violaceae, including the small solid-coloured violets and the larger-flowered, often multicoloured violas and pansies. Members of the genus Viola occur naturally worldwide but are found most abundantly in

viol: …solo bass, and for the lyra viol, a small bass viol (also called viola bastarda). But as the style of instrumental composition changed during the 17th century, an expressive, vocal sound in the soprano register was emphasized, and the tenor and treble viols declined in favour of the violin, with…

mountain ecosystem: Flora: …varied, some, like the violet Viola crassa, are typical of these harsh habitats.

stringed instrument: The production of sound: …five sympathetic strings; and the viola d’amore typically has seven. Sympathetic strings are generally made of thin brass or steel, and their vibration reinforces the upper harmonics, thus producing a bright, silvery sound.

stringed instrument: The violin family: The violin family comprises the violin, the viola, the cello (violoncello), and the double bass; it forms the backbone of the modern symphony orchestra. In addition, the violin and the viola are widely used in the music of South India and North Africa,…

stringed instrument: The violin family: The violin family comprises the violin, the viola, the cello (violoncello), and the double bass; it forms the backbone of the modern symphony orchestra. In addition, the violin and the viola are widely used in the music of South India and North Africa,…

viol: …normal-sized solo bass viol, or viola da gamba (the name became synonymous with the bass viol as the other viols fell into disuse), was used in the instrumental forms of the Baroque period. Solo bass-viol playing continued in Germany and France into the 18th century. Elsewhere the bass viol survived…

viol, bowed, stringed musical instrument used principally in chamber music of the 16th to the 18th century. The viol shares with the Renaissance lute the tuning of its six strings (two fourths, a major third, two fourths) and the gut frets on its neck. It was made in three sizes: treble, tenor, and