Vane (v n), Sir Henry or Harry 1613-1662. English politician and colonial administrator who was governor of Massachusetts (1636-1637) and a leading Parliamentarian during the English Civil War. He was tried and executed for high treason after the restoration of the monarchy. |
| vane (vn) n. 1. A weathervane. 2. 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. 3. The flattened, weblike part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft. 4. a. The movable target on a leveling rod. b. A sight on a quadrant or compass. 5. One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile. [Middle English fane, vane, from Old English fana, flag; see pan- in Indo-European roots.] |
vane [veɪn]
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1. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) Also called weather vane wind vane a flat plate or blade of metal mounted on a vertical axis in an exposed position to indicate wind direction
2. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) any one of the flat blades or sails forming part of the wheel of a windmill
3. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) any flat or shaped plate used to direct fluid flow, esp a stator blade in a turbine, etc.
4. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a fin or plate fitted to a projectile or missile to provide stabilization or guidance
5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Ornithol the flat part of a feather, consisting of two rows of barbs on either side of the shaft
6. (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) Surveying
a. a sight on a quadrant or compass
b. the movable marker on a levelling staff
[Old English fana; related to Old Saxon, Old High German fano, Old Norse fani, Latin pannus cloth]
vaned adj
vaneless adj
Vane [veɪn]
n
(Biographies / Vane, Sir Henry (1613-1662) M, English, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: colonial administrator) Sir Henry, known as Sir Harry Vane. 1613-62, English Puritan statesman and colonial administrator; governor of Massachusetts (1636-37). He was executed for high treason after the Restoration
| vane (vn) The flattened, weblike part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the rachis. |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  vane - mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the windmechanical device - mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles weathercock - weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster wind tee - weather vane shaped like a T and located at an airfield |
| 2. |  vane - a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide itarrow - a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow fin - a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish missile - a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | |
| 3. |  vane - flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or waterfan blade - blade of a rotating fan eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird, chopper - an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades impeller - the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) oar - an implement used to propel or steer a boat paddle - a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel rotating mechanism - a mechanism that rotates rudder blade - the vertical blade on a rudder turbine - rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate | |
| 4. |  vane - the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaftfeather, plumage, plume - the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds barb - one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather blade - a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) |
Translations
vane
n (also weather vane) → Wetterfahne f, → Wetterhahn m; (of windmill) → Flügel m; (of propeller) → Flügel m, → Blatt nt (of turbine) → (Leit)schaufel f
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