Definitions for windows
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Windowsnoun

   (trademark) an operating system with a graphical user interface

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1. windows

   Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone. The first version of Windows was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in the world, with 75% market share as of April 2022, according to StatCounter. However, Windows is not the most used operating system when including both mobile and desktop OSes, due to Android's massive growth.As of September 2022, the most recent version of Windows is Windows 11 for consumer PCs and tablets, Windows 11 Enterprise for corporations, and Windows Server 2022 for servers.

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1. windows

   Windows, in a technological context, refers to a popular operating system developed and marketed by the Microsoft Corporation. It provides a graphical interface for users to manage files, folders, and applications on their computer. The term "Windows" can also refer to the rectangular viewing area on a computer screen in graphical-based operating systems. Additionally, in architectural context, windows are openings in a wall, door or vehicle that allow the passage of light, sound, and air, usually covered by glass or other transparent material.

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1. Windows

   Windows is a 1980 thriller starring Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese and Elizabeth Ashley, directed by Gordon Willis.

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1. windowsnoun

   Plural noun of window.

   There are at least ten windows in our house, that doesn't include the glass panels in the doors.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 21, 2016  

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1. WINDOWS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Windows is ranked #116201 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Windows surname appeared 150 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Windows.
   
   88% or 132 total occurrences were White.
   10% or 15 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Operating System

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'windows' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1168

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'windows' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1340

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How to pronounce windows?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say windows in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of windows in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of windows in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of windows in a Sentence

1. Detective Melissa Ramirez:

   The AC was not on, the windows were slightly cracked, but the car was off and the doors were locked.

2. Rania Masri:

   What I felt was that it was an earthquake, the apartment shook horizontally and all of a sudden it felt like an explosion and the windows and doors burst open. The glass just broke. So many homes were damaged or destroyed.

3. Joe Bruno:

   I did not hug my mom, i did not hug my sister. My sister cut my hair. She was masked, and all the windows were open. We were distanced in my apartment, and then, they left. They were over for maybe 40 to 45 minutes. Later that evening, my sister started to feel symptoms. About three days later, I started to feel symptoms.

4. Jonathan Sinn:

   Shawn was up there playing basketball with his brother and his cousin, he is 5-foot-5, 130 pounds, and it was just the three of them on the court playing when a car-load of kids, a car-load of teenagers … pulled into the lot. At that point they opened their windows and opened fire with, what at the time seemed to be a fully automatic firearm.

5. Claude Taylor:

   A lot of people try to rely in my opinion too much on natural lighting. It just ends up being washed out, people who are better at it, you'll actually see have windows pretty carefully muted.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=windows
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=windows
5. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=windows