(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.
Pyne
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Pine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The NSW education minister, Adrian Piccoli, said Pyne must be "the only person in Australia" who believed in the model created by the Howard government, which seems likely to form the template for Pyne's new model, to be implemented in 2015.
(2) Pyne said his office had calculated that if students left university with a debt of $30,000- $40,000, they would have to pay back between $3 to $5 extra each week.
(3) I’m standing strongly behind Bronwyn Bishop as the Speaker and I would call on all my colleagues whether they’re in the cabinet or on the backbench to stand firm against the demands by the Labor party to remove the Speaker,” Pyne said.
(4) Pyne is also introducing a practice of “interventions”, where MPs will be given opportunities to interrupt and participate in parliamentary debates.
(5) Coalition reverses planned $500m cut to automotive industry assistance Read more But some attendees were surprised when Pyne told the senators that unless Labor and the crossbench passed the family tax benefit cuts, there would be no expanded ATS.
(6) I’ve found the savings to do so through the reform of the higher education sector and I’m very passionately committed to continuing [NCRIS], but the savings to fund it are in the reform bill and if the crossbenchers and the Labor party vote against the reform bill they will effectively be voting against the [NCRIS] continuing.” Asked whether the linkage was a mistake in light of concerns from research leaders, Pyne said ministers were required to find savings if they had spending proposals.
(7) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
(8) Pyne’s announcement also met with a strong response from Tom Alegounarias, president of the Board of Studies New South Wales.
(9) In question time on Tuesday, Pyne said officials were still finalising the details of the in-principle agreements with the three jurisdictions to benefit from the restoration of the $1.2bn, but the government was treating the states as “adult” administrators.
(10) "Well I think Christopher [Pyne] said schools would get the same amount of money, and schools – plural – will get the same amount of money.
(11) Macintyre has previously been the target of criticism by Pyne, who told the ABC’s Q&A program in June 2012 that the first offering of the national history curriculum was “very leftwing” and was “certainly written by an ex-communist”.
(12) Pyne, who is the minister for industry, innovation and science, and Roy, the assistant minister for innovation, have not commented on the developments.
(13) The then education minister, Christopher Pyne, dismissed the call, saying the government didn’t as a rule trash funding agreements already in place.
(14) Some of those people that they are looking for evidence of is communication with Christopher Pyne, Mal Brough, Wyatt Roy, along with Channel Nine and News Corp reporters.
(15) A spokesman for Pyne then began hosing down the idea by saying it was “not on the current agenda”.
(16) He told Guardian Australia: “You’ve only got limited funds you can spend on higher education and is this really a sensible use of $1bn?” Before Abbott’s definitive statement, Pyne told the Financial Review a policy change would need “proper safeguards”, such as a minimum age to ensure that the families of young people who died owing a Hecs debt “would not be penalised”.
(17) Pyne was describing the implementation of the deregulation of fees in response to questions about the indexation of student loans.
(18) Clearly Christopher Pyne has given up on texting and moved on to advertising, websites and social media,” Lazarus said on Monday.
(19) About $1.2bn earmarked for those jurisdictions was removed from the federal budget in the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook as a result of stalled negotiations – a figure Pyne and Abbott sought to make a virtue of restoring this week .
(20) Replacing the indexation rate with the rate at which the government has to borrow the money that it lends to students is perfectly fair,” Pyne said.