vane

/veɪn/

Misollar

  • Many a layman confuse vane with vain.
  • The wind blew the weather vane off the roof.
  • That guy is a real weather vane: he constantly changes his mind.

ot noun

  1. A weather vane
  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. The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
  4. A sight on a sextant or compass

Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.

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