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Window - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Window : (noun)
1: a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass
windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit
light or air
2: a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of
the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened
3: a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an
otherwise opaque material
4: an opening that resembles a window in appearance or
function; "he could see them through a window in the
trees"
5: the time period that is considered best for starting or
finishing something; "the expanded window will give us
time to catch the thieves"; "they had a window of less
than an hour when an attack would have succeeded"
6: a pane in a window; "the ball shattered the window" [syn: windowpane]
7: an opening in the wall of a building (usually to admit light
and air); "he stuck his head in the window"
8: (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen
that contains a display different from the rest of the
screen
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Window : \Win"dow\, n. [OE. windowe, windoge, Icel. vindauga
window, properly, wind eye; akin to Dan. vindue. ????. See
Wind, n., and Eye.]
1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of
light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes
containing some transparent material, as glass, and
capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
I leaped from the window of the citadel. --Shak.
Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window
bid good morrow. --Milton.
2. (Arch.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or
other framework, which closes a window opening.
3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. [R.]
Till he has windows on his bread and butter. --King.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Window : \Win"dow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Windowed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Windowing.]
1. To furnish with windows.
2. To place at or in a window. [R.]
Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see Thy
master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His
corrigible neck? --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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WINDOW. An opening made in the wall of a house to admit light and air, and
to enable those who are in to look out.
2. The owner has a right to make as many windows in his house when not
built on the line of his property as he may deem proper, although by so
doing be may destroy the privacy of his neighbors. Bac. Ab. Actions in
general, B.
3. In cities and towns it is evident that the owner of a house cannot
open windows in the partition wall without the consent of the owner of the
adjoining property, unless he possesses the right of having ancient lights.
(q.v.) The opening of such windows and destroying the privacy of the
adjoining property, is not, however, actionable; the remedy against such
encroachment is by obstructing them, without encroaching upon the rights of
the party who opened them, so as to prevent a right from being acquired by
twenty years use. 3 Camp. 82.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Window : properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light
and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or
closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul
at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on
the town wall (Josh. 2:15; 2 Cor. 11:33). The clouds are
metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" (Gen. 7:11; Mal.
3:10). The word thus rendered in Isa. 54:12 ought rather to be
rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or
as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays
of the sun"= having a radiated appearance like the sun.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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