vane

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n. 风向标, 风信旗, 变化不定的事物 [机] 轮叶, 叶

发音

UK /veɪn/
US /veɪn/
SCOT /ven/
其它 /veːn/

词形变化

vanes 复数 vanes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A weather vane.

  2. 2.

    Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.

  3. 3.

    The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.

    生物 动物学
  4. 4.

    A sight on a sextant or compass.

  5. 5.

    One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.

    工程 政治 军事

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

blade web weather vane wind vane

上位词 2

blade fin

下位词 4

paddle fan blade impeller weathercock

部分词 1

barb

整体词 10

helicopter arrow missile chopper windmill propeller oar turbine plume plumage

相关短语

weather vane 风标 in the same vane Cooper vane wind vane 风向标

词源

From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.

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