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Vane
name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 A weather vane.
- 2 the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft wordnet
- 3 Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
- 4 flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water wordnet
- 5 The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
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- 6 a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it wordnet
- 7 A sight on a sextant or compass.
- 8 mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind wordnet
- 9 One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.
Etymology 2
Variant of Fayne.
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