vane
/veɪn/
noun
- A flat or curved piece attached to a rotating axis, used to catch wind or water and cause motion, as in a windmill or turbine.
- The windmill's wooden vane creaked as it turned in the breeze.
- Engineers designed a new vane for the turbine to capture more energy.
- A broken vane caused the waterwheel to stop spinning.
- A weather vane; a device on a rooftop that spins to show the direction of the wind.
- The rooster-shaped vane on the barn pointed north today.
- Our old vane was replaced with a modern one that lights up at night.
- She climbed up to fix the rusty vane so it would move freely again.
- A flat, movable part of a feather, also called the web, consisting of barbs on either side of the shaft.
- He examined the vane of the feather under a microscope.
- The bird's feather had a damaged vane on one side.
- The vane of the quill was perfectly symmetrical.
- A blade or fin-like part of a propeller, fan, or similar device.
- Each vane of the propeller was carefully balanced.
- The fan's plastic vane broke off after hitting the wall.
- The engine's cooling fan has six curved vanes.
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