What's the difference between jane and vane?

Jane


Definition:

  • (n.) A coin of Genoa; any small coin.
  • (n.) A kind of twilled cotton cloth. See Jean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
  • (2) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
  • (3) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (4) Downing Street would not discuss Brown's conversation with Janes in detail, or whether Brown's handwritten letters are checked before they are sent out.
  • (5) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (6) However, Friends of the Earth's Jane Thomas said: "We mustn't be taken in by aviation industry spin – building more airports or runways will have a major impact on local communities and our environment."
  • (7) It's Jane Austen all over again, and we've just fooled ourselves that the complicated financial system has changed a thing.
  • (8) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
  • (9) Bank of England urged to make new £5 note vegan-friendly Read more It decided earlier this year not to withdraw plastic £5 banknotes from circulation and said it would push ahead with production of the new £10 polymer note featuring Jane Austen, which is to be issued in September.
  • (10) But the fact Yellen is even being considered is a feat in itself as central banking is still an old boy’s club, Cooper adds: The new Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney may have assuaged feminists with his choice of Jane Austen for the ten pound note, but his Monetary Policy Committee is female free.
  • (11) He and his wife, Jane, have been married for 40 years; together they have sons, now grown up, and live in a quiet part of south London.
  • (12) We’re really pleased that our internal efficiencies we don’t have to cut the money going to arts organisations.” Jane Martinson Justice The latest round of savings imposed on the Ministry of Justice, amounting to £249m off the annual budget, is likely to come from delaying capital projects and underspends in legal aid.
  • (13) The documentary, Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?, is due to air on BBC2 on Boxing Day.
  • (14) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
  • (15) and lot of them seemed to be mad about missing out on Austin - as ESPN's Jane McManus notes: Jane McManus (@janesports) I did see at least one Jets fan flip the bird in frustration after Goodell announced Tavon Austin to the Rams.
  • (16) Jane Tweddle-Taylor’s death was confirmed by the Blackpool school where she worked as a receptionist.
  • (17) Our census data shows that 40% of consultant posts remain unfilled, nearly always due to a lack of candidates,” Prof Jane Dacre will tell the college’s annual conference on Tuesday.
  • (18) A few months later the Bank announced that writer Jane Austen would be the next face of the £10 note .
  • (19) It has this very illustrious record of people who attended but didn't graduate, including Anne Hathaway, Jackie Onassis and Jane Fonda.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Either way, I love Jane for idly sticking two fingers up at the idea of a spa break in Rhodes or other emblems of “sophistication” being the only thing to aspire to.

Vane


Definition:

  • (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
  • (n.) Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
  • (n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
  • (n.) One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One significant concern involves the rotary vane aspirators used to provide the suction required for the procedure.
  • (2) Indicators for use of variable-width multi-vane electron arc collimators include the following: (1) Mechanical constraints of the therapy equipment may limit the placement of isocenter to an inadequate depth which causes large variation in the SSD around the arc; (2) Out of the central plane, the shape of the chest wall may change dramatically across the limits of the arc, creating large variations in the dose distribution; (3) Clinical definition of the treatment surface to include surgical scars or other at-risk volume may create an irregularly shaped treatment surface, thereby changing the fraction of the arc included in the treatment surface from one plane to the next.
  • (3) The appendages consist of a delicate bilateral vane 2 mum wide on either side of the axis, composed of extremely fine overlapping or interwoven fibrils.
  • (4) As a result, they presented such symptoms as abnormality in the vane of remiges, undergrowth, anemia, and leg paralysis.
  • (5) Experimental studies also showed that the vanes of the bolt (arrow) may be a source of trace material found in the wound.
  • (6) Biologically active substances circulating in the blood after administration of noradrenaline (NA) into the left lateral brain ventricle of the dog were detected using the blood bathed organ technique of Vane.
  • (7) Innovative techniques in motion control technology have been applied to the design and implementation of a portable computer-controlled multi-vane collimator for use in electron arc therapy.
  • (8) In the first animal experiment using nonoptimized vanes, there was no thrombus at the back plane or the seal, and only a small thrombus at the transition between axle and rotor.
  • (9) Both mathematic computation of velocity distribution in the impeller and geometric illustration of the velocity triangle at the top of the vane have demonstrated that the peripheral velocity variation of blood cells in a twisted impeller will be less than that in an untwisted impeller.
  • (10) His father, Samuel, was a lay preacher and art metal worker, who designed a weather-vane for one of the civic buildings in Blackpool.
  • (11) The background was either a static homogeneous disk, a flickered homogeneous disk, a static radially-vaned disk, or a rotating vaned disk, all of equivalent space- and time-averaged luminance.
  • (12) Rabbit aortic strips were arranged in a Vane's cascade and superfused with Krebs buffer which contained phenylephrine hydrochloride (100 nM) and indomethacin (5 microM).
  • (13) The key to the question is to design a three-dimensional impeller with twisted vanes, compacted by an axial helical spiral and a radial logarithmic spiral so as to reduce the turbulent shear in the pump as the impeller changes its rotations per minute periodically to generate a physiologic pulsatile flow.
  • (14) Vane's hypothesis is supported by this study of PG induced experimental arthritis.
  • (15) With adequate dosage, there may even be a slight increase in diastolic pressure, an effect eventually vaning in chronic therapy.
  • (16) The coronary effluent was continuously bioassayed for prostaglandin-like substances (PLS) using the cascade technique of Vane.
  • (17) His weather vane politics are not in the national interest.
  • (18) To reduce the effects of backstreaming oil from the vacuum system, a turbomolecular pump backed by a two-stage rotary vane pump was connected to the drying-coating chamber.
  • (19) Vanee Vines, an NSA spokeswoman, declined to comment on Monday on the Wyden-Udall letter.
  • (20) The effect of such vanes was studied in videographic and ultrasound studies.