What's the difference between pane and plane?

Pane


Definition:

  • (n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.
  • (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.

Plane


Definition:

  • (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
  • (a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
  • (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
  • (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
  • (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
  • (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
  • (a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
  • (a.) To efface or remove.
  • (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
  • (3) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
  • (4) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (6) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
  • (7) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
  • (8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
  • (9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
  • (10) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
  • (11) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
  • (12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
  • (13) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
  • (14) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
  • (15) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
  • (16) The resistance is a complex function of the perfusion pressure and the cross-sectional area of the stenosis and cannot be accurately predicted from a single plane angiographic image.
  • (17) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
  • (18) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
  • (19) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
  • (20) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.