Pane
//peɪn// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
"We need doubling glazing as this window pane lets out lots of heat."
- 2 Alternative spelling of peen. alt-of, alternative
- 3 street name for lysergic acid diethylamide wordnet
- 4 A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.
- 5 sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors wordnet
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- 6 A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
- 7 a panel or section of panels in a wall or door wordnet
- 8 A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
- 9 One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
- 10 A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
"An octagonal tower is said to have eight panes."
- 11 A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
- 12 One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
- 13 One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
Verb
- 1 To fit with panes. transitive
"For example, by paning the glass horizontally (putting a single horizontal slat through the middle of the window), it almost looks as if you installed two windows."
Example
More examples"I suddenly saw myself reflected in a window pane and it startled me."
Etymology
From Middle English pane, pan, from Old French pan, from Latin pannus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Doublet of pagne, pan, and pannus.
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