Veil vs. Curtain — What's the Difference?

A veil is an article of clothing or hanging cloth that is intended to cover some part of the head or face, or an object of some significance. Veiling has a long history in European, Asian, and African societies.

A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop/background.Curtains are often hung on the inside of a building's windows to block the passage of light.

A length of cloth worn over the head, shoulders, and often the face, especially by women.

A piece of fabric or other material that hangs in a window or open space as a decoration, shade, screen, or divider.

A length of netting attached to a woman's hat or hair worn for decoration or to protect the head and face.

Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, divider, or barrier

A length of protective netting worn over the face by beekeepers.

The movable screen or drape in a theater or hall that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop.

The part of a nun's headdress that frames the face and falls over the shoulders.

The rising or opening of a theater curtain at the beginning of a performance or act.

The life or vows of a nun

The time at which a theatrical performance begins or is scheduled to begin.

Any of various cloth head coverings worn by Muslim women.

The fall or closing of a theater curtain at the end of a performance or act.

A piece of light fabric hung to separate or conceal what is behind it; a curtain.

The part of a rampart or parapet connecting two bastions or gates.

Something that conceals, separates, or screens like a curtain

(Architecture) A curtain wall.

(Biology) A membranous covering or part, as that on the developing fruiting body of certain mushrooms; a velum.

The end.

To cover with or as if with a veil

Absolute ruin

To conceal or disguise

Death.

To wear a veil.

To provide (something) with a curtain or curtains.

Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

To close off (something) with a curtain or curtains.

(figurative) Anything that partially obscures a clear view.

A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.

A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)

The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.

(biology) The calyptra of mosses.

(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.

(zoology) velum A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa.

Death.

(mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

(mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.

A flag; an ensign.

An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.

To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.

That which separates the living and the spirit world.

(figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

(transitive) To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

(transitive) To conceal as with a veil.

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.

That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.

A cover; a disguise; a mask; a pretense.

A flag; an ensign; - in contempt.

The calyptra of mosses.

To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.

A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.

Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Same as Velum, 3.

Any barrier to communication or vision;

To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.

Provide with drapery;

Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.

A garment that covers the head and face

The inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl

To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil;

Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing;