wane

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.

   “In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o’clock, meridian—his dinner hour—it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing—but, as it were, with a gradual wane—till six o’clock, P.M., or thereabouts; […].”

2. isim The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.

   “Some French peasants also prefer to sow in the wane.”

3. isim The end of a period.

   “The day was in its prime, the day was in its wane, and still, uneasy in mind and body, she slept on.”

4. isim A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

   “2002, Peter Ross, Appraisal and Repair of Timber Structures, p. 11, Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane, or missing timber.”

5. fiil To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.

   “You saw but sorrow in its waning form.”

6. fiil For light to dim or diminish in strength.

   “The skies may hold not the splendour of sundown fast; / It wanes into twilight as dawn dies down into day.”

7. fiil For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.

   “The fall of Jack, and the subsequent fall of Jill, simply represent the vanishing of one moon-spot after another, as the moon wanes.”

8. fiil Said of a time period that comes to an end.

   “Fast as autumn days toward winter: yet it seems//Here that autumn wanes not, here that woods and streams”

9. fiil To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.

   “The snow which had been for some time waning, had given way entirely under the fresh gale of the preceding night.”

10. fiil To cause to decrease.

    “In which no lustful finger can profane him, Nor any earth with black eclipses wane him”

11. isim A child.
12. isim A house or dwelling.