vane
Meaning
- 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.
- The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
- A sight on a sextant or compass.
- One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
Synonyms
wind vane
leaf blade
peep-sight
breech-sight
weather-vane
hairline pointer
aiming device
beater blade
guidance unit
fluid director
rear finder
wheel blade
Translations
veleta
βραχίωνας
déflecteur de volet
Wetterfahne
girandola
schop πτερύγιο ανεμοδείκτης
aspaFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/veɪn/
Etymology
In summary
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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