vane

Examples

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• Edwards also offers a range of roughing pumps, including rotary vane, diaphragm, and dry scroll for sample preparation and other wet chemistry applications.

  Academic text (1997)

• Its parts are: 1. Vane 2. Rachis 3. Barbs (connected by barbules and hooks) 4. Afterfeather 5. Calamus.

  Blog text (15)

• I retracted the vanes on my suit and climbed in through the hatch.

  Fiction book (1999)

• In this cramped space, there was no room for my radiating vanes to unfurl.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The heat radiation vanes on her back unfolded to their full extent and snapped taut.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The radiating vanes on his back had partially unfolded, giving him the aspect of an as yet unclassified insect.

  Fiction book (1999)

• I examined him closely, wondering if despite our precautions something—the vanes or the tool belt—had come loose.

  Fiction book (1999)

• One of the world's largest producers of turbomolecular vacuum pumps, with over 100 years of vacuum experience, offering a complete line of turbomolecular, dry, rotary vane, Roots, and membrane pumps.

  Academic text (1997)

• "She had yanked her hair free of its ponytail and now it shot out in ragged arcs around her head, tangled like the vanes of a wrecked umbrella.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The bird's feathers had bright and well-structured vanes that helped it fly smoothly.

Synonyms

W

web

vsvane

71 1.0

A thin, flat part joining other parts, for example a spider's net or skin between toes

is the specific flattened part of a feather made of paired barbs

Idioms

L

like a weather vane in a storm

• Informal

9.0

Changing often in ways you cannot predict

Compounds

W

weather vane

1 3.7

A rod on a roof that turns to show wind direction

W

wind vane

• Specialized

3.9

A thing on a roof that turns to show which way the wind blows

Surface Forms

Etymology