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doʊ noun
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such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed.
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the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening: Finally the builders put in the windows.
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a windowpane.
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anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address.
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a period of time regarded as highly favorable for initiating or completing something: Investors have a window of perhaps six months before interest rates rise.
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Geology, fenster.
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Pharmacology. the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic.
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Aerospace.
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a specific area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must reenter to arrive safely at its planned destination.
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Computers. a section of a display screen that can be created for viewing information from another part of a file or from another file: The split screen feature enables a user to create two or more windows.
verb (used with object)
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to furnish with a window or windows.
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Obsolete. to display or put in a window.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a light framework, made of timber, metal, or plastic, that contains glass or glazed opening frames and is placed in a wall or roof to let in light or air or to see throughRelated: fenestral |
| 2. | an opening in the wall or roof of a building that is provided to let in light or air or to see through |
| 3. | See windowpane |
| 4. | the display space in and directly behind a shop window: the dress in the window |
| 5. | any opening or structure resembling a window in function or appearance, such as the transparent area of an envelope revealing an address within |
| 6. | an opportunity to see or understand something usually unseen: a window on the workings of Parliament |
| 7. | a period of unbooked time in a diary, schedule, etc |
| 8. | launch window short for weather window |
| 9. | physics See also radio window a region of the spectrum in which a medium transmits electromagnetic radiation |
| 10. | computing an area of a VDU display that may be manipulated separately from the rest of the display area; typically different files can be displayed simultaneously in different overlapping windows |
| 11. | (modifier) of or relating to a window or windows: a window ledge |
| 12. | informal out of the window dispensed with; disregarded |
| —vb | |
| 13. | (tr) to furnish with or as if with windows |
| Related: fenestral | |
| [C13: from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr | |
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Word Origin & History
window
early 13c., lit. "wind eye," from O.N. vindauga, from vindr "wind" (see wind (n.)) + auga "eye." Replaced O.E. eagþyrl, lit. "eye-hole," and eagduru, lit. "eye-door." Originally an unglazed hole in a roof, most Germanic languages adopted a version of L. fenestra to describe
the glass version, and English used fenester as a parallel word till mid-16c. Window dressing is first recorded 1790; fig. sense is from 1898. Window seat is attested from 1778. Window-shopping is recorded from 1922. Window of opportunity (1979) is from earlier fig. use in U.S. space program, e.g. launch window (1965).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
window win·dow (wĭn'dō)
n.
A fenestra.
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Bible Dictionary
Window definition
properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall (Josh. 2:15; 2 Cor. 11:33). The clouds are metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" (Gen. 7:11; Mal. 3:10). The word thus rendered in Isa. 54:12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun"= having a radiated appearance like the sun.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Vt--a window of the tiny station featured a quaint and charming photo exhibit of great local train crashes.
Soak three blocks of florist's foam in a bucket of water, then set them on plastic trays inside the window box.
It went out through a window on the opposite side of the house.
Plants that tolerate low light are usually happiest near an east- or north-facing window.
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