| BRANE | • brane n. (Physics) A hypothetical object extending across a number of (often specified) spatial dimensions, with… • BRANE n. a multidimensional surface embedded in a space with extra dimensions. |
| CRANE | • crane n. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight. • crane n. (US, dialect) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron. • crane n. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes. |
| BORANE | • borane n. (Inorganic chemistry) Any binary compound of boron and hydrogen. • BORANE n. any boron hydride, efficient as a high-energy fuel. |
| FORANE | • forane adj. Obsolete form of foreign. • forane adj. Only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane. • FORANE adj. outlying or rural, as in vicar-forane. |
| FURANE | • furane n. (Organic chemistry) Alternative form of furan. • FURANE n. a chemical used in tanning, also FURAN, FURFURAN. |
| STERANE | • sterane n. (Organic chemistry) A tetracyclic hydrocarbon related to the steroids. • STERANE n. any of a class of saturated polycyclic hydrocarbons found in crude oils. |
| TERRANE | • terrane n. (Geology) A block of the Earth’s crust that differs from the surrounding material, and is separated… • TERRANE n. a kind of rock formation. |
| MEMBRANE | • membrane n. (Anatomy, zootomy) A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments. • membrane n. A piece of parchment forming part of a roll. • MEMBRANE n. a thin, pliable layer of tissue. |
| FILIGRANE | • filigrane n. (Obsolete) filigree. • FILIGRANE n. (French) a kind of ornamental metallic lacework, also FILAGREE, FILIGRAIN, FILIGREE, FILLAGREE. |
| SUBTERRANE | • subterrane n. A cave or underground room. • SUBTERRANE n. an underground chamber, room or dwelling, also SOUTERRAIN, SUBTERRAIN, SUBTERRENE. |
| CYTOMEMBRANE | • cytomembrane n. (Biology) A membrane found in cytoplasm. • CYTOMEMBRANE n. one of the cellular membranes including those of the plasma membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, nuclear envelope, and Golgi apparatus. |
| DRUMBLEDRANE | • DRUMBLEDRANE n. (dialect) a bumble bee. |
| INTERMEMBRANE | • intermembrane adj. Between membranes. • INTERMEMBRANE adj. between membranes. |
| SUPERMEMBRANE | • supermembrane n. (Mathematics, physics) A multidimensional membrane (a brane) posited in some theories of everything. • SUPERMEMBRANE n. a type of membrane postulated in certain theories of elementary particles that involve supersymmetry. |
| TRANSMEMBRANE | • transmembrane adj. (Biology) traversing a cellular membrane. • transmembrane adj. Of or pertaining to a transmembrane protein or segment. • transmembrane n. (Cytology) a transmembrane protein, or the transmembrane portion of a protein. |
| METHOXYFLURANE | • methoxyflurane n. (Pharmaceutical drugs) An inhalational anaesthetic of the 1960s and early 1970s, now largely abandoned… • METHOXYFLURANE n. a potent general anaesthetic administered as a vapor. |
| PSEUDOMEMBRANE | • pseudomembrane n. (Medicine, pathology) A layer which resembles a membrane, especially one forming over a mucosal surface. • PSEUDOMEMBRANE n. a false membrane. |