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windowpane - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A piece of glass filling a window or a section of a window.
noun A pattern of thin lines forming large squares on a background of a different color.
noun Slang LSD.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One of the oblong or square plates of glass set in a window-frame.
noun The sand-flounder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Arch.) See pane , n., (3) b.
noun (Zoöl.) 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 .
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun a piece of glass filling a window or a section of a window
noun slang A quadruple dose of liquid LSD .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America
noun a pane of glass in a window
noun street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
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Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory.
Book Awards 2009
Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory.
Book Awards 2009
Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory.
November 2008 2008
Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory.
GG Literary Awards 2008 2008
Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory.
GG Literary Awards 2008 2008
Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory.
November 2008 2008
Somehow a windowpane is not thick enough for comfort when a male lion is staring right at you. posted by Jennifer | 9: 03 AM
Archive 2007-01-01 Jennifer 2007
Somehow a windowpane is not thick enough for comfort when a male lion is staring right at you. posted by Jennifer | 9: 03 AM
Pictures in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are Jennifer 2007
So I can't jump, I mused, but I can break a windowpane and take the edge to my neck.
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
The final reason for Orwell's popularity is his 'windowpane ' writing.
Orwell Now 1997
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