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Vane vs Bane - What's the difference?

vane | bane |

As nouns the difference between vane and bane

is that vane is crease, fold while bane is dwelling, abode, residence, half dilapidated house.

vane

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) A weather vane.
  • Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
  • (ornithology) The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
  • A sight on a sextant or compass.
  • One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
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    bane

    English

    (wikipedia bane)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bane, from (etyl) bana, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse
  • the bane of my existence
  • * Herbert
  • Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
  • (dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants
  • (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
  • (obsolete) destruction; death
  • * Milton
  • The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane .
  • A disease of sheep; the rot.
  • Antonyms
    * (affliction or curse) boon
    Derived terms
    * baneberry * baneful * boon and bane * wolfsbane

    Verb

    (ban)
  • To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
  • To be the bane of.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) northern dialect ban, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A bone
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