wane
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wane1
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v. [intr.]
(of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.
∎
(esp. of a condition or feeling) decrease in vigor, power, or extent; become weaker:
confidence in the dollar waned.
PHRASES: on the wane
becoming weaker, less vigorous, or less extensive:
the epidemic was on the wane.
wane2
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n.
the amount by which a plank or log is beveled or falls short of a squared shape.
DERIVATIVES:
wane·y
adj.
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A new Faz tipped Warriors glory.
Newspaper article from: Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England); 1/15/2007; 290 words
; ...Warriors. Warriors Under-18s coach Shaun Wane believes the next member of the Farrell...to make it all the way to the big time. Wane has great expectations of young Liam Farrell...even better player than his famous cousin. Wane has been monitoring Farrell and has marked...
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Wane keeps Kirkham's Wembley dream alive.
Newspaper article from: Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England); 3/3/2008; 389 words
; Long distance lorry driver Mark Wane hauled Kirkham and Wesham back into the...cup fighters looked to be going out until Wane's clever equaliser with four minutes of...to give that dream up without a fight. Wane's career was in the balance when he fractured...
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Scanning lumber for defects and increased profits.
Magazine article from: Wood & Wood Products; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...OMITTED] Also the edges of the boards need to be scanned for wane (wane is a defect in the edge or corner of lumber characterized...in Illustration 1 has a few small knots and a strip of wane on the lower edge. The bottom of the board has larger knots...
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Dioxins are on the wane in the United Kingdom's environment.(In Brief)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Environment; 7/1/2007; 63 words
; Dioxins, a category of industrial chemicals and chemical by-products that are suspected carcinogens, are on the wane in the United Kingdom's environment, according to a nationwide study by the U.K. Environment Agency. Dioxins in soil and vegetation...
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Reports of TSS wane. (toxic shock syndrome)
Magazine article from: FDA Consumer; 10/1/1990; 103 words
; Reports of TSS Wane Reports of toxic shock syndrome (TSS)--a rare, sometimes fatal disease associated with tampon use--continue to wane, with no menstruation-related TSS deaths reported in 1988 and 1989, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control recently...
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Northrop earnings drop as R&D revenues wane; aerospace giant cites the B-2, old fixed-price contracts. (company profile)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 10/23/1989; ; 586 words
; Northrop earnings drop as R&D revenues wane Hurt by higher than anticipated costs on fixed-price contracts, aerospace giant Northrop Corp. last week reported third-quarter...
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KK powers not on wane.
Newspaper article from: Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England); 2/28/2008; 342 words
; KEVIN Keegan has insisted his motivational powers are not one the wane. But the Newcastle United boss - the subject of a report this morning suggesting a rift between him and the club's new hierarchy...
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Report predicts REIT M&A deals to wane.(INDUSTRY INSIDER)
Magazine article from: Units; 4/1/2007; 335 words
; ...involved, Moody's Investors Service said in a new report. The rating agency expects this wave of REIT M&A deals to begin to wane, however, as institutional investors in particular reach their targeted allocations for real estate, and as other asset classes...
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Mafia on the wane, maybe.(Local Opinion)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 10/21/2007; 660 words
; ...anticipating a meal of swordfish or sardines, I am greeted politely by a local crowd, the tourist high season having begun to wane. A seaside vendor persuades me to take a granita di caffe, a kind of iced coffee, and we chat aimlessly for a minute in the Sicilian...
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Netanyahu's star begins to wane. (Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...member Meir Sheetrit, his big mistake was his unmitigated hawkishness on the peace deal. That's when his political star began to wane. The country had moved to the left and Netanyahu came across not as the reasonable, western-educated man he purports to be, but...
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wane
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
wane • abstain , appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign...sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne •watch chain • mondaine ...
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wax and wane
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
wax and wane begin to speak or write about something in the specified manner ( wax (of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size).
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wanton
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...UN-1 , MIS-1 , OE. wan- = OS., OHG. wan ( a )- (Du. wan- , G. wahn- ), ON. van- , orig. identical with adj. † wane (see WANE ) + towen , toʒen , OE. togen , pp. of tēon discipline, train.
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Drama in Transition
Book article from: American Decades
...point of creative and financial crisis in the early 1970s. In a sense, theater as a vital and expanding art form had been on the wane throughout the 1960s, despite many excellent new plays and commercial hits. The finest American dramatists — Tennessee...
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Golf
Book article from: American Decades
...his competitive edge. At forty his drives were not as prodigious as they once were, his legendary concentration often seemed to wane at critical junctures, and even his fans feared that their hero invested too much of his time and passion into the business and...
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