vane

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I haven't taken Gods name in vane since I had a bar of Ivory soap shoved in my mouth.

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mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind

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noun

mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind

noun

a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it

noun

flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for vane.

noun

mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind

noun

a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it

noun

flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water

noun

the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft

Example sentences

I haven't taken Gods name in vane since I had a bar of Ivory soap shoved in my mouth.

I double checked, AOA sensors are weather-vane type systems.

Vanity base word is vane; or to be so focused on how pretty or appealling you are to others.

Configurability doesn't make it better, in the contrary, it has to many vane options to my taste.

For example, the nature of the intake airflow can greatly affect what happens when the airflow hits the vane leading edge and beyond.

I don't read even a small fraction of what's posted; I use it as a news weather-vane - what do the [politicos|hackers|normals] think is annoying/cool enough to tweet about this morning?

While I believe you about the value of fins in a radiating surface, here they're optimizing against two effects, so I think it's plausible that taller fins result in more flow per vane.

Piston engines, turbines, and rockets are the three most common, but there are also Wankel engines, rotary vane motors, and more exotic designs like the Quasiturbine and the dozen or so other kinds of positive-displacement pumps.

You can stick out a little control vane to try to change course a little bit, but at that sort of speed, in that sort of atmospheric density, and bearing in mind that during re-entry anything that is at all pointy will get burned off, I doubt you could do much at all.

Isn't it much more effective to assume the identity of fiscal conservatives and deflate the funding out of a potential market before it's even born by appealing to those who make most of the economic decisions?I think it helps to consider HN not as a public forum, but as a capitalist/democratic wind vane or a PR game sandbox.