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[visiting nurse]{n.} A nurse who goes from home to home taking care of sick people or giving help with other health problems. •/After John returned home from the hospital, the visiting nurse came each day to change his bandages./

[voice] See: AT THE TOP OF ONE’S VOICE, GIVE VOICE.

[voice box]{n.} The part of the throat where the sound of your voice is made; the larynx. •/Mr. Smith’s voice box was taken out in an operation, and he could not talk after that./

[voiceprint]{n.}, {technological}, {colloquial} The graphic pattern derived from converting an individual’s voice into a visible graph used by the police for identification purposes, much as fingerprints. •/They have succeeded in identifying the murderer by using a voiceprint./

[volcano] See: SIT ON A VOLCANO.

[volume] See: SPEAK VOLUMES.

[vote a straight ticket]{v. phr.} To not differentiate one’s ballot according to individual names and posts, but to vote for all candidates for all positions of the same party. •/"I never have time.to study the ballot in detail," Marie said, "and so I tend to vote a straight Republican ticket."/

[vote in]{v. phr.} To elevate to the status of "Law of the Land" by special or general ballot. •/Congress has finally voted in the Brady Law that requires that prospective gun owners wait a special period of time before making their purchase./

[vote one out]{v. phr.} To terminate one’s elected office by casting a negative vote about that person (judge, congressman, etc.), mostly so that someone else might occupy the same position. •/Congressman Smith was voted out last November in favor of Congresswoman Bradley./

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[wade in] or [wade into]{v.}, {informal} 1. To go busily to work. •/The house was a mess after the party, but Mother waded in and soon had it clean again./ 2. To attack. •/When Bill had heard Jim’s argument, he waded in and took it apart./ •/Jack waded into the boys with his fists flying./

[wade through]{v. phr.} To read through something long and laborious. •/It took John six months to wade through Tolstoy’s War and Peace in the original Russian./

[wag] See: TONGUES TO WAG or TONGUES WAG.

[wagon] See: FIX SOMEONE’S WAGON, HITCH ONE’S WAGON TO A STAR, JUMP ON THE BAND WAGON, OFF THE WAGON, ON THE WAGON.

[wag one’s chin] See: BEAT ONE’S GUMS, CHEW THE FAT, CHEW THE RAG, SHOOT THE BREEZE.

[wait] See: LIE IN WAIT.

[wait at table] or [wait on table] or [wait table]{v. phr.} To serve food. •/Mrs. Lake had to teach her new maid to wait on table properly./ •/The girls earn spending money by waiting at table in the school dining rooms./

[waiting list]{n.} A list of persons waiting to get into something (as a school). •/The nursery school enrollment was complete, so the director put our child’s name on the waiting list./ •/The landlord said there were no vacant apartments available, but that he would put the Rogers' name on the waiting list./

[waiting room]{n. phr.} The sitting area in a doctor’s, lawyer’s, accountant’s, etc. office, or in a hospital, or other workplace, where people wait their turn. •/Some doctor’s offices have elegantly furnished waiting rooms with magazines, newspapers, and coffee for the patients./