window
an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed.
the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening: Finally the builders put in the windows.
a windowpane.
anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address.
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.
Military. chaff1 (def. 5).
Geology. fenster.
Pharmacology. the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic.
Aerospace.
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.
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.
to furnish with a window or windows.
Obsolete. to display or put in a window.
Origin of window
1Other words from window
- win·dow·less, adjective
- win·dow·y, adjective
- un·win·dowed, adjective
- well-windowed, adjective
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How to use window in a sentence
Up and down the plane I heard the slap of blinders yanked down over the windows while the rest of us eagerly took in the view.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind | Brin-Jonathan Butler | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.
First, he emphasized the importance of the police and the need for new training and an end to “broken windows” tactics.
Eric Garner Protesters Have a Direct Line to City Hall | Jacob Siegel | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe site was blacked out at all times, with curtains and painted exterior windows.
Saks get 500,000 windows onlookers per day—a total of 25 million for the entire season.
The east window in this church has been classed as the A1 of modern painted windows.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellThe doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.
The Red Year | Louis TracyIn this little room the galleries had been designed; the windows had looked upon the commencement of the great work.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsTwo broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man's eye might reach.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinRobert went over and seated himself on the broad sill of one of the dormer windows.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin
British Dictionary definitions for window
/ (ˈwɪndəʊ) /
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 through: Related adjective: fenestral
an opening in the wall or roof of a building that is provided to let in light or air or to see through
See windowpane
the display space in and directly behind a shop window: the dress in the window
any opening or structure resembling a window in function or appearance, such as the transparent area of an envelope revealing an address within
an opportunity to see or understand something usually unseen: a window on the workings of Parliament
a period of unbooked time in a diary, schedule, etc
short for launch window, weather window
physics a region of the spectrum in which a medium transmits electromagnetic radiation: See also radio window
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
(modifier) of or relating to a window or windows: a window ledge
out of the window informal dispensed with; disregarded
(tr) to furnish with or as if with windows
Origin of window
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with window
see out the window.
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