Definitions for Vane

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Vane vane

Spelling: [veyn]

IPA: /veɪn/

Vane is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Vane (aenv).

Definitions for Vane

noun

1. weather vane.
2. a blade, plate, sail, etc., in the wheel of a windmill, to be moved by the air.
3. any of a number of blades or plates attached radially to a rotating drum or cylinder, as in a turbine or pump, that move or are moved by a fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air.
4. a person who is readily changeable or fickle.
5. Aerospace. any fixed or movable plane surface on the outside of a rocket providing directional control while the rocket is within the atmosphere. a similar plane surface located in the exhaust jet of a reaction engine, providing directional control while the engine is firing.
6. Ornithology. the web of a feather.
7. Navigation, Surveying. either of two fixed projections for sighting an alidade or the like.
8. Archery. feather (def 5).
9. Sir Henry (Sir Harry Vane) 1613–62, British statesman and author.

Origin of Vane

before 1100; Middle English; Old English fana flag; cognate with German Fahne flag, Gothic fana segment of cloth; cf. gonfanon

Examples for Vane

The only guests at the marriage-feast were Dora, Ernshaw, and vane.

In the sea of faces before him, vane recognised several that were familiar to him.

vane, she says, was her mother's name, and a nice sort of person she seems to have been.

vane Maxwell was in very good humour that night with himself and all the world.

As a matter of fact they had practically no cause for dispute with vane.

vane and I both agreed to acknowledge her and have her to live with us, but it was no use.

I suppose after what you've said it's no use asking you to have a nightcap, vane?

There was a little pause, during which vane looked hard at the spirit-case.

No, vane, indeed I won't, nor anyone else for ever and ever if you'll only forgive me this time.

"Christian according to the Reverend vane Maxwell," he said, with the suspicion of a sneer.