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Very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America
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windowpane
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Windowpane \Win"dow*pane`\, n. (Arch.) See Pane , n., (3) b . [In this sense, written also window pane .] (Zo["o]l.) A thin, spotted American turbot ( Pleuronectes maculatus ) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also ...
Wikipedia
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Windowpane may refer to: Paned window and window , an architectural element Windowpane (song) (1990) "Windowpane", an Opeth song from the album Damnation Fenestrane , in organic chemistry is a type of chemical compound with a central quaternary carbon atom ...
Wiktionary
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alt. 1 a piece of glass filling a window or a section of a window 2 (context slang English) A quadruple dose of liquid LSD. n. 1 a piece of glass filling a window or a section of a window 2 (context slang English) A quadruple dose of liquid LSD.
WordNet
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n. a pane in a window; "the ball shattered the window" [syn: window ] very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America [syn: Scophthalmus aquosus ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A trace of early-morning red showed on a fifth-floor windowpane . ▪ He went to sleep as he stood there, clutching his glass, his forehead resting on the windowpane . ▪ More rain hit the windowpanes, and Leith came to a decision. ...
Usage examples of windowpane.
He had become so accustomed to the constant rattle of bees striking the windowpanes that the sudden quiet startled him.
God knew how many mysteries of Christendom a thousand years ago, kept alive on the looms of the twenty-first century because they went so well with the compound arches and rib-rife vaulted ceilings, the random Chaucerian casement windowpane etchings of ancient Gothic buildings erected en masse in the 1920s.
As if hearing the windowpane rattle or seeing the curtain aflutter, she turned her pixieish face and inclined her bright head in his direction.
Rain slid tearily down the windowpanes, blurring the garden into a gray dismal landscape of bare trees and withered vines.
I had a most arresting example of this zoophobia when one of the stray cats occasionally found in the gardens pressed itself against the windowpane of the consulting room, causing Katharina to jump in exaggerated fright.
In the course of the ride cockchafers crackled against the windowpanes of the front platform.
A stormwind had begun to whine outside the kastel, rattling shutters and gusting spatters of sleet against the windowpanes.
When Jilly turned her head toward the brothers, she saw still more fragments of windowpanes this must be what they were to the left of her, a galaxy of glittering splinters and larger wedges leisurely tumbling-flying past.
Many neighbors pasted themselves to their streetside windowpanes every day at this hour.
Lizard on a Windowpane By the time I got to the midway, a hundred carnies were crowded around the carousel, most of whom I had yet to meet.
Biology, girls' names, catenary curves, and all the rest of the nonsense were wiped out as water is when a squeegee clears a windowpane.
X, who snatched it with ivory chopsticks, dredged it through an exquisite cloisonné bowl filled with chemical dessicant, and arranged it on a small windowpane of solid diamond.
The Snow-flake emerged from the darkness like frost crystallizing on a windowpane.
The Snowflake emerged from the darkness like frost crystallizing on a windowpane.
It was the Stadt-Theater, the dramatic coffee mill, whose windowpanes gleaming in the evening sun attracted the modernistic tones, bordering on mannerism, that I had first tried out in our loft.