PANE OF GLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pane of glass mean? 

• PANE OF GLASS (noun)
  The noun PANE OF GLASS has 1 sense:

1. sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors

  Familiarity information: PANE OF GLASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANE OF GLASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pane; pane of glass; window glass

Hypernyms ("pane of glass" is a kind of...):

plate glass; sheet glass (glass formed into large thin sheets)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pane of glass"):

window; windowpane (a pane of glass in a window)

Holonyms ("pane of glass" is a part of...):

window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)

 Context examples 

“Every night,” said Mr. Peggotty, “as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say “Come back, my child, come back!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A breach in one single pane of glass would have been immediate death: nor could any thing have preserved the windows, but the strong lattice wires placed on the outside, against accidents in travelling.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The soldier tapped at the pane of glass, and when this man came up, said to him: Be so kind as to fetch me the small bundle I have left lying in the inn, and I will give you a ducat for doing it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)