What's the difference between pane and spane?

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.

Spane


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report the clinical and cytogenetic data on seven members of a family, spaning three generations, who showed congenital facial diplegia and finger contractures.

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