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# vane

«vane» in Mova's school dictionary: **a pointer on top of a building that turns in the wind to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a vane, vanes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A weather vane is a pointer on top of a building that turns in the wind to show which way the wind is blowing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/#m1)

2) A flat blade, such as on a windmill or fan, that is turned by wind or water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science and weather lessons: making a weather vane to find wind direction with a compass (N, E, S, W). On old churches and farms: a weather vane shaped like a rooster.

### examples

- The weather vane points north today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/#x1)
- We made a weather vane from a straw and a pencil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/#x2)
- The rooster on the church is a weather vane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/#x3)
- Wind turns the vanes of the windmill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/#x4)
- A weather vane shows where the wind comes from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/#x5)
- The vane spun in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/#x6)

### note

Countable. Homophones: "vein" (a blood tube) and "vain" (too proud of your looks, or useless: in vain). A weather vane points to where the wind is blowing from.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vane» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vane/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.