noun
pane
PAYN
noun
1
A single sheet of glass fitted into a window or door.
"A cricket ball shattered the pane in the front window."
"Sunlight streamed through the small panes of the greenhouse."
2
A section of a computer screen or app window, often docked alongside other sections.
"He dragged the file list into the left-hand pane of the editor."
How to Use Pane
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA flat section — usually of glass in a window, or of a screen in software.
Common pairings
a pane of glass
window pane
split into panes
Word Forms
paned past tense, panes plural, panes singular
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Etymology
From Old French pan, ultimately from Latin pannus ("cloth") — a distant relative of "pane" in the fabric sense once meant a piece of material before it settled on glass.