Vane
noun
A flat piece of metal or plastic that spins around and shows the direction the wind is coming from.
The weathervane atop the building showed the wind was coming from the east.
Often appears as...
- spinning vane
- wind vane
noun
A flat, narrow part of an object, designed to help it move or function in a particular way.
The vanes of a fan circulate air throughout the room.
Often appears as...
- fan vane
- rotor vane
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A feather from the tail of an arrow or dart.
The arrow's vane helps it stay on course when it's airborne.
Often appears as...
- arrow vane
- stabilizing vane
noun
A flat piece of metal or plastic that spins around and shows the direction the wind is coming from.
The weathervane atop the building showed the wind was coming from the east.
Often appears as...
- spinning vane
- wind vane
noun
A flat, narrow part of an object, designed to help it move or function in a particular way.
The vanes of a fan circulate air throughout the room.
Often appears as...
- fan vane
- rotor vane
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A feather from the tail of an arrow or dart.
The arrow's vane helps it stay on course when it's airborne.
Often appears as...
- arrow vane
- stabilizing vane
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Weather Indicator
Usually found outdoors, often artistically designed to indicate wind direction.
The rooster vane showed the wind changing to the north.
Pro Tip 2/2Position on Buildings
Typically installed on high points like roofs, especially on traditional or rural structures.
The farmhouse had a vane with a ship's silhouette.
Pro Tip 1/2Weather Indicator
Usually found outdoors, often artistically designed to indicate wind direction.
The rooster vane showed the wind changing to the north.
Pro Tip 2/2Position on Buildings
Typically installed on high points like roofs, especially on traditional or rural structures.
The farmhouse had a vane with a ship's silhouette.
Pro Tip 1/2Weather Indicator
Usually found outdoors, often artistically designed to indicate wind direction.
The rooster vane showed the wind changing to the north.
Pro Tip 2/2Position on Buildings
Typically installed on high points like roofs, especially on traditional or rural structures.
The farmhouse had a vane with a ship's silhouette.
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Video examples
How a windmill gets...
meter tower it's got a measuring cup of weather vane and a little computer that records the wind speeds and then we'll also use a soda our unit which is the unit on the right and it sends an acoustic signal up about four or five hundred feet so that we can get a sense of what the wind is going to be like on the entire rotor and we measure that win
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Turtle-Cam Shows...
began all life now it's making a comeback in Moreton vane and many other places and it grows at astonishing rates at the height of a bloom its edge can cover an area the size of a football field in an hour dr.
Video examples
How a windmill gets...
meter tower it's got a measuring cup of weather vane and a little computer that records the wind speeds and then we'll also use a soda our unit which is the unit on the right and it sends an acoustic signal up about four or five hundred feet so that we can get a sense of what the wind is going to be like on the entire rotor and we measure that win
Video examples
Turtle-Cam Shows...
began all life now it's making a comeback in Moreton vane and many other places and it grows at astonishing rates at the height of a bloom its edge can cover an area the size of a football field in an hour dr.
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Jessye Norman
American Musician
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Quote examples
Douglas Brinkley
American Author
Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.
Quote examples
Jessye Norman
American Musician
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Quote examples
Douglas Brinkley
American Author
Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.
Example 1 of 2
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