单词 | pane |
释义 | pane (once / 1124 pages) 1n 2n A pane is a piece of glass, especially one that fits into a window frame. If you hit your baseball through your neighbors' kitchen window, you'll probably owe them a new pane. Panes are almost always made of glass, although occasionally they're some other translucent material. Stained-glass windows have colorful panes, and older houses with their original details often have windows made of many small glass panes. The original meaning of pane was "piece of a garment," from the Latin pannum, "piece of cloth." Later, a pane became "a panel of wood," and finally "a panel of glass." WORD FAMILYpane: panes USAGE EXAMPLESLate that night, once we’d gone to bed, a burglar entered our flat through an open pane above the balcony. The New Yorker(Nov 22, 2016) A series of new paintings at Salon 94 is based on photographs of women behind steamed or frosted panes of glass, some beaded with water. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) The glass booth’s supposedly shatterproof panes splintered, cutting her cheek, and Hedren suggests the sequence was part punishment for her rejection of him. The Guardian(Nov 05, 2016) 1 1n sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors Syn|Hypo|Hyper pane of glass, window glass window, windowpane a pane of glass in a window plate glass, sheet glass glass formed into large thin sheets 2n a panel or section of panels in a wall or door 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper paneling, panelling wall panel paneling that forms part of a wall panel sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something n street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
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