Showing posts with label take pains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label take pains. Show all posts

Friday, November 4, 2011

pain, pane

Pain or pain means an ache or suffering--physical or emotional--
He went to see the doctor about the pain in his leg.
Some people get a sharp pain when they eat ice cream.

Pane or pane ( rhymes with pain ) means a section of glass that makes up a window, or a section of a door made in separate panels--
Luckily, the windows have small panes, and only one is broken.
He went to the hardware store to buy a pane of glass to fix the window.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He still has a pain in his hand from cutting it on the window pane."

Note--a window may have "panes"--
She disliked cleaning all the little panes in the front room windows.
Note # 2--A person might have "pains"--
She couldn't wait to tell the doctor about her aches and pains.
A person may also be "a pain"--
Tell your kid brother to stop being a pain.
A person may be "pained", meaning uncomfortable with something, mentally--
It pained him to think of it. It pains him to think of it.
Note # 3--to "take pains" or to be "painstaking" means to take great care with a project, or with a social dilemma--
She made sure to take pains to make her mother-in-law comfortable.
He went over the manuscript on a very painstaking and professional way.