vane
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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.
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vane (plural vanes)
- A weather vane.
- 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.
- (ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
- (navigation) A sight on a sextant or compass.
- (weaponry) One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
- Synonym: fin
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- weather vane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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vane m
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vane c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)
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vane f pl
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aː.ne/, [ˈu̯äːnɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.ne/, [ˈväːne]
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vāne
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vānē (comparative vānius, superlative vānissimē)
- in vain, vainly
- "dum bona vane laudata Pharisaei perierint, et peccata publicani accusata evanueritnt." Regula coenobialis
- While the good things of the vainly praised Pharisee will perish, also will the sins of the accused tax collector fade away.
- "dum bona vane laudata Pharisaei perierint, et peccata publicani accusata evanueritnt." Regula coenobialis
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- “vane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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vane
- Alternative form of fane (“flag, vane”)
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vane m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vaner, definite plural vanene)
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- “vane” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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vane m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vanar, definite plural vanane)
- a habit, custom
- 1957, Tarjei Vesaas, Fuglane:
- Hege hadde for lang tid sidan slutta og bedi han halde seg ifrå denna trøyttande vanen.
- Hege had long ago stopped asking him to refrain from this tiresome habit.
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- “vane” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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