pane
/ˈpeɪ̯n/ noun B2- An individual sheet of glass or other transparent material in a window, door, etc. · We need doubling glazing as this window pane lets out lots of heat.· Perspex panes
- 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.
- A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building. · metal panes on an outhouse· An octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.
- A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain. · way-panes
- One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides. · wooden panes of an insulation box
Plural panes
From the library
The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.
It stares through the window-pane;
The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a “To Let” card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.
But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer.
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