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# ane

fragment; Scots word (ane); suffix (-ane in chemistry)

«ane» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (Scots) «Ane» is the Scots word for «one»: «ane o them» means one of them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#m1)
2. (science) «-ane» is an ending in chemistry names of some gases and fuels: methane, propane, butane, octane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#m2)
3. As a word alone it is not standard English. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#m3)

### In the lessons

Met in Scottish poems and songs (Robert Burns) and in science lessons naming fuels. On its own it is a fragment, not a common English word.

### Examples

- In Scots, «ane» means one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#x1)
- «Ane day» is Scots for one day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#x2)
- Methane ends in «-ane». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#x3)
- Propane and butane are camping gas fuels ending in -ane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#x4)
- Burns wrote «ane» in his poems. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#x5)
- My Scottish nan counts «ane, twa, three». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#x6)
- So the young man went on, and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very dreadfu’ beasts, ilk ane o’ them wi’ twa heads, and on every head four horns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/#x7)

### Note

Not an English word on its own. As a chemistry ending it is written «-ane». Do not confuse with «and» or «one».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ane» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ane/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ane» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ane.html) on Mova free.