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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /veɪn/
• 韻: -eɪn
• 異形同音異義語: vain, vein

名詞

vane (plural vanes)

1. A weather vane.
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. (ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.

   Synonym: vexillum

   Meronym: barb

4. (navigation) A sight on a sextant or compass.
5. (weaponry) One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.

   Synonym: fin

派生語

Further reading

• weather vane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• nave, e-van, Neva, neva, Nave, Evan, Aven, aven, Vena, vena

形容詞

vāne

1. vocative masculine singular of vānus

副詞

vānē (comparative vānius, superlative vānissimē)

1. in vain, vainly

   "dum bona vane laudata Pharisaei perierint, et peccata publicani accusata evanueritnt." Regula coenobialis

   While the good things of the vainly praised Pharisee will perish, also will the sins of the accused tax collector fade away.

参照

• “vane”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.