name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
vane
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation, US: /veɪn/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Scotland: /ven/
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Wales: /veːn/ without the pane–pain merger
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rhymes with -eɪn
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homophone: vain
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homophone: vein (both pane–pain merger)
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CMU ARPABET: V EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A weather vane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vexillum
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A sight on a sextant or compass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: navigation
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noun
Meaning 6
One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fin
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: web
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blade
noun
Meaning 8
flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: blade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rotating mechanism
Narrower terms: fan blade, impeller, paddle, rudder blade
noun
Meaning 9
a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fin
noun
Meaning 10
mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: weathervane, weather vane, wind vane
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mechanical device
Narrower terms: weathercock, wind tee
History
Etymology
Variant of Fayne.
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.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лопатка (lopatka) — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Catalan: aspa — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Finnish: siipi — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Finnish: lapa — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- French: pale — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Galician: pena — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Galician: pela — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Georgian: ხრახნის ლაპოტა (xraxnis laṗoṭa) — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- German: Flügel — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- German: Schaufel — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- German: Drehflügel — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Italian: aletta — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Italian: pala — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Polish: łopatka — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Portuguese: aleta — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Russian: ло́пасть (lópastʹ) — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Spanish: aspa — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Swedish: skena — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Ottoman Turkish: قناد (kanad) — curved surface radially mounted along an axis
- Catalan: bandera — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- Catalan: vexil·la — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- Finnish: höyty — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- French: étendard — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- French: vexillum — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- Galician: vexilo — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- German: Fahne — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- German: Federfahne — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- German: Vexillum — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- Polish: chorągiewka — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- Portuguese: vexilo — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- Spanish: vexilo — ornithology: flattened web-like part of a feather
- Polish: igła — sight on a sextant or compass
- Finnish: siiveke — metal guidance or stabilizing fin
- French: ailette — metal guidance or stabilizing fin
- Italian: aletta — metal guidance or stabilizing fin
- Polish: łopatka — metal guidance or stabilizing fin
- Russian: стабилизатор (stabilizator) — metal guidance or stabilizing fin