(n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.
(n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.
(n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
(n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
(n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.
Example Sentences:
(1) The shops on Main Street were mostly empty, paint fraying on the window panes.
(2) As the verdicts were read, the defendants shouted but their words could not be heard because of the thick panes of glass installed after a defiant Morsi declared himself the rightful president during earlier sessions.
(3) Did you know ChuckleVision is northern – cue archive footage of two men who resemble open-prison inmates moving a pane of invisible glass.
(4) Feel my pane After five years avoiding long-haul flights, I was amazed by the transformation of the aeroplane in my absence.
(5) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
(6) Beautiful, but leaky, single panes squandered the heat rising from the registers immediately below them.
(7) You still get to enjoy the delights of 21st century Stockholm though: the hotel is in the trendy Södermalm neighbourhood, close to some of the city’s most popular bars and restaurants, including the burger joint Marie Laveau , the Folkbaren bar (right next to people’s opera house Folkoperan ) and the locals’ all-time favourite, Italian restaurant Pane Vino .
(8) You can tuck into pane con la milza , a fried beef spleen sandwich from Sicily, at places such as Sole di Sicilia ( Via Livorno 6 ).
(9) It's the same recipe: video clips, editing area, preview pane.
(10) These windows no longer have blinds, and I pressed a little button to turn the pane from opaque to clear to admire the snow-capped peaks of Afghanistan.
(11) In other streets it would be fancy panes of stained glass in new front doors of white aluminium or freshly-stained wood, or the double-glazing van arriving.
(12) What should the novel do: be a mirror to the reader's world, reflecting it back at her, or be a clear pane of glass, not reflecting but offering something away from the self, a vista of a bigger, wider, different world outside?
(13) On the other side of the thick pane of bulletproof glass is Radovan Karadzic , leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the worst slaughter to blight Europe since the Third Reich, thereafter the world's most wanted fugitive – and now on trial in The Hague.
(14) For the most part he seemed dazed, still recovering from the tranquiliser dart, but occasionally he would slant a glance over his shoulder at those eagerly snapping his photograph only metres – and a thick pane of glass – away.
(15) The phone now consists of panes of content, stacked vertically, that can come to the top and into view.
(16) Panes of glass were missing from some sleeping areas, while in a dining hall some windows were still cracked.
(17) When the colonies gained independence 50 years ago, the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union) declared the borders immutable – because the alternative would look like a smashed window pane of thousands of warring states .
(18) The 57-story Vdara hotel in Las Vegas, a trio of curving glass towers, was the pride of its owners, a gleaming citadel of 1,500 rooms, clad in 3,000 "double-pane acid-etched spandrel glass panels for energy-efficient heating and cooling".
(19) "That kind of stayed with me: the notion that good writing is like a window pane on the world.
(20) "I have a brother with me everywhere I go – never any others in the venue so I might as well increase the numbers a bit," he says, wryness seeping off the text pane.
Pare
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
(v. t.) To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
(v. t.) Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of the dynamics of the changes occurring in the curve of restoration of the test response amplitude in the thalamo-cortical fibers to the pared stimulation of the medial lemniscus with various actions on the somatosensory ared.
(2) I loved that attention to detail, everything pared down to the bone."
(3) However, the announcements made at the tail-end of the Labour administrations have been pared back or delayed as ministers attempt to balance public spending cuts with infrastructure improvements.
(4) In recent weeks, repeated efforts had been made to pare down and modify the legislation to placate the rebellious conservatives in the party.
(5) Canada and Australia feel the squeeze in wake of Chinese economic slowdown Read more Japan’s Nikkei brushed aside an unexpected drop in the country’s industrial output to close up 2.7%, paring losses for the quarter to 14.1%, its deepest since 2010.
(6) It has not passed audit since 1994 and makes Britain's Ministry of Defence seem a haven of cheese-paring efficiency .
(7) These radical reactions should be considered when using human nail parings to estimate accidental exposure to ionizing radiation.
(8) The fact markets pared back this bounce soon after the announcement may in some respects reflect growing market concern that central banks are delving into a tit-for-tat currency devaluation war,” said Angus Nicholson at the online trading firm IG in Melbourne.
(9) Her first BBC series since her drug revelations and split from Charles Saatchi, it promises a “new pared-down approach to cooking and eating”.
(10) The NHS has pared back so much over the last 20 years, it now carries almost no flab.
(11) The cure rate was 84% for sheep that were only footbathed, 72% for those foot pared and footbathed, 72% for those foot pared, footbathed and given penicillin, and 88% for those vaccinated and footbathed.
(12) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(13) The work and pensions secretary believes that restricting child benefit, which could save £1bn a year, could help Osborne achieve his cuts rather than “cheese paring” all benefits.
(14) The assumption that problem-oriented records help teach critical thinking was tested by co-paring clinical recordings and case study data for a group of beginning nursing students who were taught problem-oriented charting with a group who were taught traditional charting.
(15) It was assumed that the pared-down track programme compared with Beijing, stripped of most of the meaningful endurance events, might work to Great Britain's disadvantage, but the opposite appears to be the case.
(16) It is not possible that doing nothing will be cheaper than doing something; that budget cuts, pared-down services and postcode lotteries will yield anything but higher costs and more human misery.
(17) However, when the upstream sequence was pared down to base number -118, the regulatory response to O2, H2, and Ni levels was negated.
(18) Thus, it is the presence of noisy, incoherent dot motion, rather than brief lifetimes, that causes such poor performance on the stimulus of Newsome and Pare (1988).
(19) But while the Bank has only slightly pared back its growth forecasts since its last Inflation Report in August, the same can’t be said of inflation.
(20) The director of such high-risk projects as the National Theatre's runaway hit War Horse and its more recent smash, The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night-Time , as well as the dark, pared-down Port , which recently opened at the Lyttelton, she has never knowingly opted for a theatrical safe bet.