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Definition of 'sill'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sill
a horizontal piece or member beneath a window, door, or other opening.

2. sill
a horizontal timber, block, or the like, serving as a foundation of a wall, house, etc.

3. sill
a tabular body of intrusive igneous rock, ordinarily between beds of sedimentary rocks or layers of volcanic ejecta.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME sille, OE syl, sylle, c. MLG, MD sulle)

Definition of 'sill'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sill
structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure

2. (noun) sill
(geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock

Definition of 'sill'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) sill
a windowsill

Definition of 'sill'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) sill
the basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like

2. (noun) sill
the timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold

3. (noun) sill
the timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame

4. (noun) sill
the floor of a gallery or passage in a mine

5. (noun) sill
a piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against

6. (noun) sill
the shaft or thill of a carriage

7. (noun) sill
a young herring

Translation of 'sill'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a ledge of wood, stone etc at the foot of an opening, such as a window or a door The windows of the old house were loose, and the sills were crumbling.
Afrikaans: drumpel, bank	Arabic: عَتَبَه، أُسْكُفَّه	Bulgarian: праг
Brazilian: peitoril	Czech: parapet	German: die Türschw elle, das Fen
Danish: karm	Greek: περβάζι	Spanish: alféizar, umbral
Estonian: aknalaud, lävi	Farsi: پايه	Finnish: ikkunalauta
French: rebord	Hebrew: אֶדֶן חַלוֹן	Hindi: देहली, दहलीज
Croatian: prag, daska prozora	Hungarian: ablakpárkány	Indonesian: kusen
Icelandic: (glugga)sylla;þröskuldur	Italian: davanzale; soglia	Japanese: しきい
Korean: 문지방	Lithuanian: palangė	Latvian: palodze
Malay: ambang tingkap	Dutch: drempel, vensterbank	Norwegian: svill; vinduskarm; dørter
Polish: parapet, próg	Persian: پايه	Pashto: درشل، درشاهي
Portuguese: peitoril	Romanian: pervaz	Russian: подоконник; порог
Slovak: parapet, prah	Slovenian: prag, (okenska) polica	Serbian: sims
Swedish: fönsterbräde, syll, grund	Thai: ธรณีประตูหรือหน้าต่าง	Turkish: eşik
Taiwanese: 窗臺，門檻	Ukrainian: поріг; підвіконня	Urdu: سل، سلی ، پتھر
Vietnamese: ngưỡng cửa	Chinese: 窗台，门槛
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