Meaning

6 senses
  1. A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.

    a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers

  2. A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.

    Schärpe

    по́ясpójas, куша́кkušák, ле́нтаlénta

    поясpojas, перев'язperevʺjaz

  3. The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.

    Near-synonym: casement

    1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”), Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.

    Schiebeflügel, Fensterflügel, Schieberahmen

  4. A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.

  5. The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.

    ра́маráma

  6. A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Mary wore a pink satin sash.

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  2. Who's that girl with the red sash?

    ruКто эта девушка с красным поясом?

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  3. Mary bought the red sash.

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  4. What a beautiful sash!

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  5. The red sash perfectly accessorizes her black dress.

    Цей червоний пояс чудово доповнює її чорну сукню.

    ruКрасный пояс отлично дополняет ее черное платье.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
decorative length of cloth:
Русский
By meaning 2
decorative length of cloth:
rectangular frame in which a saw is strained:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
decorative length of cloth:
opening part of a window:

Origin

From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”). From sashes, from metathesis of French châssis (“

From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).

From sashes, from metathesis of French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.

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Forms

plural: sashes
Singularsash
Pluralsashes

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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