🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

vane noun

  /veɪn/
  • (ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
 étendard, vexillum
  • (weaponry) One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
 ailette
  • 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.
 pale
weather vane
girouette
rotary vane pump
pompe à palettes
sliding vane pump
pompe à palettes
feather vane
vexille

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

Vane properNoun

Van, Vanir
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