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vane 的定义
- weather vane.
- a blade, plate, sail, etc., in the wheel of a windmill, to be moved by the air.
- any of a number of blades or plates attached radially to a rotating drum or cylinder, as in a turbine or pump, that move or are moved by a fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air.
- a person who is readily changeable or fickle.
- Aerospace. any fixed or movable plane surface on the outside of a rocket providing directional control while the rocket is within the atmosphere.a similar plane surface located in the exhaust jet of a reaction engine, providing directional control while the engine is firing.
- Ornithology. the web of a feather.
- Navigation, Surveying. either of two fixed projections for sighting an alidade or the like.
- Archery. feather.
vane 近义词
finned device
vane 的近义词 3 个
更多vane例句
- But, I refuse to believe that all the hard work that those who have marched, spoken and fought for us to progress is in vane.
- Danielle Pletka, head of foreign policy at the American Enterprise Institute, has called Romney a “weather vane.”
- Captain Vane came from the observatory, his face blazing with excitement and oily with heat, to announce the fact.
- For the rooster who was always perched on the weather-vane on the barn was up so high and he shone like gold.
- Oh seruant, vertue strengthen me.Thy presence blowes round my affections vane:You will vndoe me, if you speake againe.
- The letter was written when Mr. Vane's interest in Parliament was very great.
- Sydney Vane had been a popular man; he belonged to a well-known county family, and had left a widow and child.