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PANE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Synonyms:
acid; back breaker; battery-acid; dose; dot; Elvis; loony toons; Lucy in the sky with diamonds; pane; superman; window pane; Zen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pane" is a kind of...):
LSD; lysergic acid diethylamide (a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors
Synonyms:
pane; pane of glass; window glass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pane" is a kind of...):
plate glass; sheet glass (glass formed into large thin sheets)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pane"):
window; windowpane (a pane of glass in a window)
Holonyms ("pane" is a part of...):
window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A panel or section of panels in a wall or door
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pane" is a kind of...):
panel (sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pane"):
wall panel (paneling that forms part of a wall)
Holonyms ("pane" is a part of...):
exterior door; outside door (a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building)
sliding door (a door that opens by sliding instead of swinging)
swing door; swinging door (a door that swings on a double hinge; opens in either direction)
wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)
Context examples:
He could see only the littered writing-table, the empty space where the type-writer had stood, and the unwashed window-pane.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I found him asleep twice when I awoke; but I did not fear to go to sleep again, although the boughs or bats or something napped almost angrily against the window-panes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A breach in one single pane of glass would have been immediate death: nor could any thing have preserved the windows, but the strong lattice wires placed on the outside, against accidents in travelling.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was London now of which I thought by day and brooded by night: the huge city, the home of the wise and the great, from which came this constant stream of carriages, and those crowds of dusty people who were for ever flashing past our window-pane.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The room was most dear to her, and she would not have changed its furniture for the handsomest in the house, though what had been originally plain had suffered all the ill-usage of children; and its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded footstool of Julia's work, too ill done for the drawing-room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moonlight lake in Cumberland, a collection of family profiles, thought unworthy of being anywhere else, over the mantelpiece, and by their side, and pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H.M.S. Antwerp at the bottom, in letters as tall as the mainmast.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He stepped across the grass plot and tapped with his hand on the pane.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hansel reached up above, and broke off a little of the roof to try how it tasted, and Gretel leant against the window and nibbled at the panes.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Leah stood up in the window-seat, rubbing the panes of glass dimmed with smoke.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt grey wolf.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I got up, several times, and looked out; but could see nothing, except the reflection in the window-panes of the faint candle I had left burning, and of my own haggard face looking in at me from the black void.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
