PANE

acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen

(noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

pane, pane of glass, window glass

(noun) sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors

paneling, panelling, pane

(noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

pane (plural panes)

An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.

(computing, graphical user interface) A layer in the build-up of a GUI.

Alternative spelling of peen

A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.

A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.

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.

(architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.

A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.

One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.

Hyponyms

• (sheet of glass): window pane

Verb

pane (third-person singular simple present panes, present participle paning, simple past and past participle paned)

(transitive) To fit with panes.

Anagrams

• -pnea, NAPE, Pena, nape, neap, pean

Source: Wiktionary


Pane, n. Etym: [F. panne.]

Definition: The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.

Pane, n. Etym: [OE. pan part, portion of a thing, F. pan a skirt, lappet, part or piece of a wall, side, fr. L. pannus a cloth, fillet, rag; akin to E. vane. See Vane, and cf. Panel, Pawn pledge.]

1. A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

2. 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.

3. (Arch.) (a) 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. (b) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.

4. In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

5. (a) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides. (b) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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