windowpane

English

Alternative forms

• window pane

Etymology

From window +‎ pane.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndəʊˌpeɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndoʊˌpeɪn/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

windowpane (plural windowpanes)

1. A piece of glass filling a window or a section of a window
2. (slang) A gelatin base tab with LSD.
   • 2004, Mary M. Jensen, Introduction to Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, page 94:

     Another form is called a windowpane. Windowpanes are small thin squares of gelatin treated with LSD that look like little pieces of plastic.

   • 2011, Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik, Sandra Blakeslee, Sleights of Mind:

     When you place a windowpane of LSD on your tongue and watch the world transform into a Salvador Dalí landscape of radiant colors, shimmering geometric shapes, and morphing phantasmagoria while your sense of self dissolves—

Derived terms

• windowpane acid
• windowpaned
• windowpane oyster
• windowpane tweed
• windowpaning

 

Translations

piece of glass filling a window

• Afrikaans: perderuiters
• Albanian: dritares f
• Azerbaijani: pencere camı
• Belarusian: ако́ннае шкло n (akónnaje šklo), шкло (be) n (šklo), шы́бка f (šýbka), шы́ба (be) f (šýba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 窗玻璃 (zh) (chuāngbōli)

• Czech: okenní tabule f
• Danish: rude (da) c
• Dutch: vensterruit (nl) f, vensterglas (nl) n, ruit (nl) f
• Esperanto: glaco
• Estonian: aknaklaas
• Faroese: rútur m
• Finnish: ikkunaruutu (fi), ruutu (fi)
• French: vitre (fr) f, carreau (fr) m
• German: Scheibe (de) f, Fensterscheibe (de) f, Glasscheibe (de) f
• Greek: υαλοπίνακας (el) m (yalopínakas)
• Hungarian: ablaktábla (hu), ablaküveg (hu)
• Ingrian: ruuto
• Irish: gloine fuinneoige m, pána fuinneoige m
• Italian: vetrata (it) f, cristallo (it) m
• Japanese: 窓ガラス (まどガラス, mado garasu)
• Kikuyu: gĩcicio class 7
• Korean: 유리창 (ko) (yurichang), 창유리 (ko) (chang'yuri)
• Manx: kerrin m
• Maori: karaehe wini
• Navajo: tsésǫʼ
• Norman: ôsaine f, vitre m
• Plautdietsch: Rut f
• Polish: szyba okienna f, szyba (pl) f
• Portuguese: vidraça (pt) f
• Romanian: geam (ro) n
• Russian: стекло́ (ru) n (stekló), око́нное стекло́ n (okónnoje stekló)
• Scottish Gaelic: leòsan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прозорско окно n

  Roman: prozorsko okno n

• Spanish: vidrio de ventana m
• Swedish: ruta (sv) c, fönsterruta (sv)
• Tagalog: salamin ng bintana
• Turkish: pencere camı
• Ukrainian: віко́нне скло n (vikónne sklo), ши́бка f (šýbka), скло n (sklo), ши́ба f (šýba)
• Uzbek: deraza oynasi
• Vietnamese: kính cửa sổ
• Welsh: gwydr ffenestr m