Pare vs Pane - What's the difference?

pare | pane |

As a verb pare

is to seem, to look, to appear.

bread.

(par)

to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife

We pared the paired pears.

to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off

Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.

to trim the hoof of a horse

* to peel * to skin

* cheeseparing * parer * paring * paring knife * pare away * pare down * pare off

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(en noun)

An individual sheet of glass in a window.

(computing, graphical user interface) A layer in the build-up of a GUI.

A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.

A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.

One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

(architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.

An octagonal tower is said to have eight panes .

A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.

One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.

(Webster 1913)

* window pane

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