pane

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It was only a little after six when he went out She looked anxiously at the drawn curtains, but the sleet beating harder and harder upon the pane was her only answer There he is now!"

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  1. noun A framed section of a window or door that is usually filled with a sheet of glass or other transparent material.
  2. noun The transparent material used to fill such a section.
  3. noun A panel, as of a door or wall.
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  • Occasionally I melted a little place on the frozen window-pane, and saw that the drifts were almost level with the upper windows on either side, but that the wind had swept a clear space before the door. —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
  • In a few minutes it looked like a small window-pane, and then disappeared altogether and we were left in the darkness. —  From the Bottom Up
  • Brush size can be customised but this can only be achieved through the settings pane, which is integrated into the main iPhone settings function rather than being accessible from within ColorSplash. —  PC World
  • The display columns of the SQL query results are displayed in the table pane, which is the right pane in the Aglowsoft Browser. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • The second pane, which is accessible with a left to right finger swipe, allows you to drag and drop programs from the left menu, and customize your own shortcut panel. —  pocketnow.com
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  1. Middle English, section, pane of glass, from Old French pan, piece of cloth, panel, from Latin pannus, cloth; see pan- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also pain; from Middle English pane,a part, from OF. pan, a pane, piece, panel, F. pan, a skirt, lappet, panel(of a wall), side,=Spanish paño = Portuguese Italian Panno, cloth, from Latin pannus, a cloth, a garment, a head-band, fillet, bag, satchel, a rag, etc., Middle Latin pannus, also panna, piece, = Greek πῆνος (Doric also πᾶνος) (later L. pānus) thread on the bobbin, woof, web. From the L. pannus, besides English pane, are the diminutive panel, also pawn(and pannicle, counterpane). From Latin panus is ult. English panicle.
  2. from Middle English Panen; from pane, n.
  3. Middle English pane, from Old French pane, panne, pene, penne, French panne=pr.pena, penna=Old Spanish Pena, peña, Spanish pana, a skin, hide, worsted, plush, from Middle Latin panna, penna, skin, fur, perhaps a feminine Form of Latin pannus, a cloth, piece, etc.; otherwise another use of Latin penna, feather (cf. Middle High German Federe, feather, plush): see pane and pen.
 

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