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sill
1[ sil ]
noun
- a horizontal timber, block, or the like serving as a foundation of a wall, house, etc.
- the horizontal piece or member beneath a window, door, or other opening.
- Geology. a tabular body of intrusive igneous rock, ordinarily between beds of sedimentary rocks or layers of volcanic ejecta.
Sill
2[ sil ]
noun
- Mount, a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 14,153 feet (4,314 meters).
sill
/ ²õɪ±ô /
noun
- a shelf at the bottom of a window inside a room
- a horizontal piece along the outside lower member of a window, that throws water clear of the wall below
- the lower horizontal member of a window or door frame
- a continuous horizontal member placed on top of a foundation wall in order to carry a timber framework
- a flat usually horizontal mass of igneous rock, situated between two layers of older sedimentary rock, that was formed by an intrusion of magma
sill
/ ²õıô /
- A sheet of igneous rock intruded between layers of older rock.
- See illustration at batholith
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ¾±±ô±ô-±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
- ³Ü²Ôd±ð°ù·²õ¾±±ô±ô noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sill1
before 900; Middle English sille, Old English syl, sylle; cognate with Low German ²õü±ô±ô, Old Norse syll; akin to German Schwelle sill
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sill1
Old English syll; related to Old Norse svill sill, Icelandic svoli tree trunk, Old High German swella sill, Latin solum ground
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First, though, she needed to crawl out a narrow ladies’ room window and stand up on the sill.
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This rigid material must be custom cut and fit tight between the floor joists, subfloor and sill plate.
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Exterior and interior halves drape over a sill to leave the window mostly unobscured.
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The hearing was told Sir Bobby had lost his balance as he stood up from his chair, striking a window sill and "possibly a radiator".
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But this is the first time sill construction has been used in consecutive years.
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