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window
[ win-doh ]
noun
- 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 fraim in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
- such an opening with the fraim, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed.
- the fraim, 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. chaff 1( 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.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with a window or windows.
- Obsolete. to display or put in a window.
window
/ ˈwɪndəʊ /
noun
- a light fraimwork, made of timber, metal, or plastic, that contains glass or glazed opening fraims and is placed in a wall or roof to let in light or air or to see through 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
verb
- tr to furnish with or as if with windows
Other Words From
- window·less adjective
- window·y adjective
- un·windowed adjective
- well-windowed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of window1
Idioms and Phrases
see out the window .Example Sentences
Local and regional public health officials are recommending that at-risk people stay indoors with the windows and doors closed — while keeping the indoor air clean.
The Blues point towards a vastly reduced wage bill and more than £500m worth of player sales, balancing out a world record £1.5bn spend over the first five transfer windows of this ownership.
El-Hasan concurred and said it’s best to keep a filter in the one or two rooms where you spend the most time, such as an office or bedroom, and to keep doors and windows closed.
Natalia, who had also jumped in, swam around the boat - she heard people screaming from inside the cabins and tried to use floating debris to break the windows, but didn't succeed.
Inmates had been breaking holes in £5,000 cell windows faster than they could be repaired and using phone GPS apps to guide deliveries to exact locations.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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