pane
IPA: pˈeɪn
noun
- An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.
- A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
- A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
- One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
- (architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
- A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
- One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
- One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
- Alternative spelling of peen [The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.]
verb
- (transitive) To fit with panes.
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Examples of "pane" in Sentences
- The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
- To only show starred items, putis: starred in pane 1.
- That pane is the "compose" pane of gmail, but now it shares the space.
- The “Contacts” pane is the home of both your standard address book and instant messaging.
- For me, being able to kill RightZoom in the terminal w/o opening the preference pane is a bonus too. rhoderickj
- In Naples last week nonmob bakers handed out 20,000 loaves of what they called pane onesta — "honest bread" — to protest that city's 2,500 mob-linked bakeries, according to Confesercenti, a trade group.
- The un-broken window pane is like the screen through which the child inserts himself into an imaginary cinematic order (as opposed to the "ordinary order" of his childhood); the aftermath is a Blanchotian "absence, loss and the lack of any beyond."
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