windowsill
pronunciation
How to pronounce windowsill in British English:
UK [ˈwɪndəʊsɪl]
How to pronounce windowsill in American English:
US [ˈwɪndoʊsɪl]
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- Noun:
- the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame
Word Origin
- windowsill (n.)
- also window-sill, 1703, from window (n.) + sill (n.).
Example
- 1. We wandered down the block and sat down to rest on a windowsill .
- 2. Scale models of asteroids fill the windowsill of his office at jpl in pasadena .
- 3. Take down the curtains temporarily and install one of those cat window seats on the windowsill .
- 4. But one evening I made an exciting discovery : balanced just so on a windowsill , my iphone had snatched a stray sliver of signal and garnered 50 e-mails .
- 5. The house with the lamps on the windowsill is where he spends his long , quiet afternoons , preferably lingering with friends and passers-by on the veranda and waiting for the light to fade .