Pane
[peɪn] or [pen]
Definition
(n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.
(n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.
(n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.
(n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
(n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
(n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.
Typist: Martha
Definition
n. a plate of glass: a square in a pattern: a flat division or side in any kind of work: a slash in a dress showing an under garment or for the insertion of a piece of cloth of different colour &c.: a panel or piece of cloth of a different colour from the rest esp. in variegated work.—v.t. to insert panes or panels in.—adj. Paned composed of panes or small squares: variegated.
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Examples
- Not a casement was found unfastened, not a pane of glass broken; all the doors were bolted secure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- When a ray of light passes through plane glass, like a window pane, it is shifted somewhat, but its direction does not change; that is, the emergent ray is parallel to the incident ray. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Night was setting in, and its bleakness was enhanced by the contrast of the pictured fire glowing and gleaming in the window-pane. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- White specks and bubbles are common flaws, which vary in size and which may be best illustrated by looking at a pane of glass in your window. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I do not see a mask or a smutted face present; and there is not a pane of glass broken in your windows. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Objects looked at through a window pane seem to be in their natural place. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We counted sixty panes of glass in one window, and each pane was adorned with one of these master achievements of genius and patience. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When a piano is being played, we are often startled to find that a window pane or an ornament responds to some note of the piano. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A few minutes brought them to the window of Uncle Tom's cottage, and Eliza stopping, tapped lightly on the window-pane. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There is no opening except the one pane, said our learned guide. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A sharp rain, too, was beating against the window-panes; and the sky looked black and cloudy. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The rain beat strongly against the panes, the wind blew tempestuously: One lies there, I thought, who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was a wet night; the rain lashed the panes, and the wind sounded angry and restless. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Molten glass being rolled into a form suitable for window panes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- So with the humbler houses in the little street, the inner firelight shining on the panes as the outer twilight darkened. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hannah, who had carried wood, made a fire, and stopped up the broken panes with old hats and her own cloak. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But there was light enough to read by from the narrow upper panes of the windows. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The wind rasped and scraped at the corners of the house, and filliped the eavesdroppings like peas against the panes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He had looked at it through the dirty panes of glass in a bar door. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We counted sixty panes of glass in one window, and each pane was adorned with one of these master achievements of genius and patience. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The deviation or displacement caused by glass as thin as window panes is too slight to be noticed, and we are not conscious that objects are out of position. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Leah stood up in the window-seat, rubbing the panes of glass dimmed with smoke. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The speaker was a woman, gazing down upon the group from an upper window, whose panes blazed in the ruddy glare from the west. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A diamond appears white because it allows the passage through it of all the various rays; this is likewise true of water and window panes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The window-blind was not drawn, and broad moonbeams poured through the panes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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