Windowpane

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Windowpane \Win"dow*pane`\, n.
     1. (Arch.) See {Pane}, n., (3)
        b . [In this sense, written also {window pane}.]
          [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.) A thin, spotted American turbot ({Pleuronectes


        maculatus}) remarkable for its translucency. It is not
        valued as a food fish. Called also {spotted turbot},
        {daylight}, {spotted sand flounder}, and {water flounder}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  windowpane
       n 1: a pane in a window; "the ball shattered the window" [syn: {window}]
       2: very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of
          North America [syn: {Scophthalmus aquosus}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "windowpane":
     bay, bay window, bow window, casement, casement window, diaphane,
     display case, fan window, fanlight, glass, glassware, grille,
     lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, louver window, oriel, pane,
     picture window, port, porthole, rose window, shopwindow, showcase,
     skylight, stemware, transom, transparent substance, vitrics,
     vitrine, watch crystal, watch glass, wicket, window, window bay,
     window glass, windowlight