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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 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. 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 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 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
From the RMS Titanic to the SS Endurance, shipwrecks offer valuable -- yet swiftly deteriorating -- windows into the past.
“And at some point we opened the window… and the stench was like a butchery… Like in the market, where it's not very clean.”
A small change can take them in and out of what is known as the 'set-up window', and once out, it can have a big effect on performance.
"I imagine it like some organic cathedral with stained glass windows, with the light falling on the parishioners inside," said Johnsen, the senior author and a biology professor at Duke.
In the oven analogy one can see through a window and use the visual information to make changes in the temperature and baking time.
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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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