تعريف to wane في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- wany
- Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength
The skies may hold not the splendour of sundown fast; / It wanes into twilight as dawn dies down into day.
- To cause to decrease
Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour.
- A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc
His influence which was on the wane during the reign of Joseph II grew still less during the reign of Leopold II (1790-2).
- Said of the Moon as its through the phases of its monthly cycle during which its visible surface is progressively decrease
The fall of Jack, and the subsequent fall of Jill, simply represent the vanishing of one moon-spot after another, as the moon wanes.
- 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.
- A house or dwelling
- A child
- 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.
- The lunar phase during which diminishes the sunlight-illuminated area of the moon's surface visible from Earth
It was very dark, for although the sky was clear the moon was now well in the wane, and would not rise till the small hours.
- A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark
Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane, or missing timber.
- To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline
And in the cool twilight when the sea-winds wane.
- The end of a period
thumb|Wane siding on a cabin at [[w:S.B. Elliott State Park|S.B. Elliott State Park]].
- to diminish in size and brilliancy
- {v} to grow less
- {n} a decrease or decline
- a child : also wain,waine
- become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned
- The bark or lack of wood from any cause on the face of a piece
- To decline; to fail; to sink
- If something is on the wane, it is becoming weaker or less. In 1982, with his career prospects on the wane, he sold a script for £5,000. = diminishing
- To be diminished; to decrease; contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon
- When the moon is waning, it is showing a smaller area of brightness each day as it changes from a full moon to a new moon. The moon was waning, and each day it rose later. on the wane becoming smaller, weaker, or less important
- The original rounded surface of a log, with or without bark, on any face or edge of sawn timber
- Bark, or the lack of wood from any cause, on any edge of a piece of square-edged lumber
- An inequality in a board
- The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log
- The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator
- the waning moon; refers to that portion of the lunar revolution between full and new
- To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon
- become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned"
- {f} diminish; decline; ebb, subside, dwindle; approach the end (of life, a period, etc.)
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- The absence of fiber on the edge of a piece of lumber
- If something wanes, it becomes gradually weaker or less, often so that it eventually disappears. While his interest in these sports began to wane, a passion for rugby developed. her mother's waning strength. wax and wane: see wax = fade
- decrease in phase; "the moon is waning"
- grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
- decrease in phase; "the moon is waning" become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned
- {i} decreasing in brightness (of the moon); descent, lessening; approaching of the end (of a period of life, etc.)
- Bark, or lack of wood from any cause, on edge or corner of a piece of wood
- Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension
