Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A framed section of a window or door that is usually filled with a sheet of glass or other transparent material.
- noun The transparent material used to fill such a section.
- noun A panel, as of a door or wall.
- noun One of the flat surfaces or facets of an object, such as a bolt, having many sides.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hide or side of fur; fur.
- noun The striking face of a hammer.
- To insert panes or panels in. See
paned . - noun In milling: The space between two leader-furrows in a millstone; the space from one leader-furrow to the next.
- noun One of the burstones which form the face of a millstone.
- noun A distinct part or piece of any surface; a division; specifically, a marked division in a wall or fence.
- noun . A pale; a stake.
- noun In costume: A piece of cloth of a different color inserted in a garment for ornament; a stripe or panel inserted in a garment.
- noun An opening or slash in a dress, either for the purpose of displaying a garment underneath or for the insertion of a piece of cloth of another color or fabric.
- noun A skirt, as of a coat; a lappet or flap; also, a robe.
- noun A piece, part, or portion having mainly a plane surface and a rectangular or other definite symmetrical shape.
- noun A square in a checkered pattern.
- noun A flat-dressed side or face of a stone or log.
- noun A panel or division of a work; a sunken part surrounded by a border.
- noun In irrigation, a subdivision of the irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet-drain.
- noun The side of a tower, spire, or other building.
- noun One of the eight sides of the table of brilliant-cut diamond.
- noun One of the sides of a bolt-head or large nut. Nuts are designated according to the number of sides, as six-paned nuts, eight-paned nuts, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The narrow edge of a hammer head. See
peen . - noun A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.
- noun 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.
- noun A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
- noun Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash; a windowpane.
- noun In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
- noun One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
- noun One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An individual sheet of
glass in a window. - noun computing, graphical user interface A
layer in the build-up of aGUI . - noun Alternative spelling of
peen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- noun a panel or section of panels in a wall or door
- noun sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In Naples last week nonmob bakers handed out 20,000 loaves of what they called pane onesta — "honest bread" — to protest that city's 2,500 mob-linked bakeries, according to Confesercenti, a trade group.
Mob-Free Shopping 2007
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The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
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To only show starred items, putis: starred in pane 1.
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For me, being able to kill RightZoom in the terminal w/o opening the preference pane is a bonus too. rhoderickj
RightZoom Makes The OS X Maximise Button More Like Windows | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
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That pane is the "compose" pane of gmail, but now it shares the space.
Google Wave “Is What Email Would Look Like If It Were Invented Today” | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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To only show starred items, putis: starred in pane 1.
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The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
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The un-broken window pane is like the screen through which the child inserts himself into an imaginary cinematic order (as opposed to the "ordinary order" of his childhood); the aftermath is a Blanchotian "absence, loss and the lack of any beyond."
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008
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The “Contacts” pane is the home of both your standard address book and instant messaging.
Spicebird Beta Moves Thunderbird Closer to Outlook Territory | Lifehacker Australia 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word pane
JM knows a very bad glassblower who inhaled and got a pane in the stomach.
May 25, 2011