Definizione monolingua

wane

wane (third-person singular simple present wanes, present participle waning, simple past and past participle waned)

1. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 118:

     I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust.

   • 1902, John Masefield, ""The Golden City of St. Mary"":

     And in the cool twilight when the sea-winds wane […]

2. (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
   • 1894, Algernon Charles Swinburne, ""A Nympholept"":

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

3. (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as its through the phases of its monthly cycle during which its visible surface is progressively decrease.
   • 1866, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, ""The Man in the Moon"":

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

4. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
   • 1894, Algernon Charles Swinburne, ""A Swimmers Dream"":

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

5. (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
   • 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, chapter XIX:

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

6. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.
   • 1797, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Childers of Yorkshire:

     Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour.

wane (plural wanes)

1. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
   • 1853, Herman Melville, ""Bartleby, the Scrivener,"" in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0146000129, p. 3,

     In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve oclock, 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 oclock, PM, or thereabouts; after which, I saw no more of the proprietor of the face, [...].

   • 1913, Michael Ott, The Catholic Encyclopedia, ""Wenzel Anton Kaunitz"",

     His influence which was on the wane during the reign of Joseph II grew still less during the reign of Leopold II (1790-2).

2. The lunar phase during which diminishes the sunlight-illuminated area of the moons surface visible from Earth.
   • 1926, H. P. Lovecraft, ""The Moon-Bog"",

     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.

3. (literary) The end of a period.
   • 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or The Two Nations, Book 1, Chapter 3,

     The situation of the Venetian party in the wane of the eighteenth century had become extremely critical.

   Wane siding on a cabin at S.B. Elliott State Park

4. (woodworking) 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.

Definizione dizionario wane

	diminuire
	To make smaller.

calare

decadere

declinare

decrescere

deteriorare

peggiorare

scemare

tramontare

Altri significati:

(intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as its through the phases of its monthly cycle during which its visible surface is progressively decrease.

(intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.

(woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

(chiefly Northern England and Scottish, obsolete) A house or dwelling.

go down (sun)

(intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.

(transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.

(Scottish, slang) A child.

(intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.

(literary) The end of a period.

(of the moon) To decrease in phase.

The lunar phase during which diminishes the sunlight-illuminated area of the moon's surface visible from Earth.

A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.

(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.