Phrase Hound found 4 phrases and 22 compound words that contain vane. The most common are listed below. Open vane in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 4
- weather vaneA mechanical device rotating around one axis and attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind.
- wind vaneA vane turned by the wind, a weather vane.
- Cooper vaneA mechanical aerodynamic wedge that prevents the ventral airstair of an aircraft from being lowered during flight.
- in the same vaneMisspelling of in the same vein: Of a similar kind.
Compound words 22
- paravaneA device, stabilized with vanes, towed alongside a vessel such that the cable attaching it cuts the moorings of submerged mines.
- dogvaneA small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind.
- anemovaneAn instrument for measuring wind speed and direction.
- vanelessWithout vanes.
- aerovaneAn anemometer that combines a propeller and a tail on the same axis to measure wind speed and direction.
- hydrovaneA hydrofoil.
- multivaneOf or pertaining to multiple vanes.
- vanelikeResembling or characteristic of a vane.
- VanistA follower of Henry Vane the Younger (1613?–1662), English politician, statesman, and colonial governor.
- VanessaA female given name originating as a coinage.