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Fave vs Fane - What's the difference?

fave | fane |

As adjectives the difference between fave and fane

is that fave is (informal) favorite (us) or favourite (uk) while fane is faded.

As a noun fave

is (informal) favorite (us) or favourite (uk).

As a verb fane is

.

fave

English

Alternative forms

* fav

Adjective

(head)
  • (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
  • * 2010 September, , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 8:
    • At stlmag.com this month
  • *:* Select articles from this issue
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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)
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    fane

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fane, from (etyl) . More at vane.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
  • * 1801 , John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne , page 541,
    • The ?teeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the pre?ent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes' mounted on ?pires, on the four corners; the?e being judged too weak for the ' fanes , were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ?teeple altered.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temple or sacred place.
  • * 1850 , The Madras Journal of Literature and Science , Volume 16, page 64,
    • Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina , or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.
  • * 1884 , , Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau , page 78,
    • The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane , its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • * 1993 [1978], (editor), The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1: Cosmogenesis, page 458,
    • And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.
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