Meaning & use

pane

noun·Everyday

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A single sheet of glass set into a window or door.

See it in a sentence

A stray baseball cracked the pane in the living room window.

Frost had formed delicate patterns on the window pane overnight.

A note on using this word

Easy to confuse with its homophone 'pain'; a pane is always about glass, never discomfort.

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