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Vane vs Vade - What's the difference?

vane | vade |

As nouns the difference between vane and vade

is that vane is crease, fold while vade is (male) calf.

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.
  • Anagrams

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    vade

    English

    Verb

    (vad)
  • (obsolete) To fade; to vanish.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Summer leaves all vaded .
  • * Spenser
  • They into dust shall vade .
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