pane

«pane» in Mova's school dictionary: One sheet of glass in a window or door — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a pane, panes)

meaning for a pupil

1) One sheet of glass in a window or door. tree →

2) (computers) A separate part of a window on a screen. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life a ball can break a window pane. In maths, window panes make arrays: a window with 3 rows of 4 panes has 12 panes. Phrases: pane of glass, window pane.

examples

• The ball smashed a pane in the greenhouse. tree →
• Rain ran down the window pane. tree →
• Our window has 6 panes in 2 rows of 3. tree →
• Dad replaced the broken pane of glass. tree →
• Frost made patterns on the pane. tree →
• Click the left pane to see your files. tree →
• The mountain-dweller saw them through the panes of his little window. tree →

note

Countable. Homophone trap: «pain» (hurt) sounds the same. Maths: count panes as rows × columns.

In the corpora

• A window pane is made of sand.
• Glass is a solid; some old windows are thicker at the bottom because old glass panes were made uneven.
• Double-glazed windows have two sheets, or panes, of glass with a layer of trapped air between them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pane» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.