Wain vs. Wane: What's the Difference?
Wain is an archaic term for a large wagon or cart, while wane means to decrease in size, extent, or degree, particularly in reference to the moon.
Wain and Wane Definitions
Wain
The Big Dipper.
Wane
To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity
Interest in the subject waned.
Wain
A large open farm wagon.
Wane
To show a progressively smaller illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from full to new.
Wain
A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
"The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.
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Wane
To approach an end
The day began to wane.
Wain
To carry.
Wane
The act or process of gradually declining or diminishing.
Wain
A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
The wardens see nothing but a wain of hay.
Driving in ponderous wains their household goods to the seashore.
Wane
A time or phase of gradual decrease.
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Wain
A chariot.
Wane
The period of the decrease of the moon's illuminated visible surface.
Wain
English writer (1925-1994)
Wane
A defective edge of a board caused by remaining bark or a beveled end.
Wain
A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
Wane
A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
Wain
Large open farm wagon
Wane
The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
Wane
(literary) The end of a period.
Wane
(woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
Wane
A child.
Wane
A house or dwelling.
Wane
(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
Wane
(intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
Wane
Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
Wane
(intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
Wane
To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
Wane
To cause to decrease.
Wane
To be diminished; to decrease; - contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane.Waning moons their settled periods keep.
Wane
To decline; to fail; to sink.
You saw but sorrow in its waning form.
Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.
Wane
To cause to decrease.
Wane
The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
Wane
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
An age in which the church is in its wane.
Though the year be on the wane.
Wane
An inequality in a board.
Wane
The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.
Wane
A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
Wane
Grow smaller;
Interest in the project waned
Wane
Become smaller;
Interest in his novels waned
Wane
Decrease in phase;
The moon is waning
