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vane

noun as in finned device

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Badenoch said the prime minister didn't "have the balls" to say where he stood and likened him to a "weather vane".

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When throngs of visitors move through the show, which started Nov. 8, they’ll create air currents, stirring the mobiles to move in a slow ballet of weather vanes.

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The blades can move to change their pitch and adjust the air flow, as can a set of fixed vanes just behind the fan.

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A museum should not change directions like a weather vane but give us the reassurance that some things are timeless and provide us with the history and progression of art.

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We can smell mulch, feel the vanes of feathers, bump into doors and taste peppermints.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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