sill
A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a windowA breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
» I wiped the window sill with a paper towel.
Я вытер подоконник бумажным полотенцем.
Я витерла підвіконня паперовим рушником.
Meaning
8 sensesA breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
Fensterbank, Sims, Fensterbrett
подоко́нникpodokónnik
A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
Lagergang, Sill
силлsill
A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
Drempel, Bodenstufe
A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
the nasal sill
(historical)The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
(UK)A young herring.
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure
- (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock
Examples
18 sentencesI wiped the window sill with a paper towel.
Я витерла підвіконня паперовим рушником.
ruЯ вытер подоконник бумажным полотенцем.
Tom painted the window sills white.
Tom sat on the window sill.
ruТом сидел на подоконнике.
deTom setzte sich auf die Fensterbank.
We need to repaint our window sills.
Tom leaned on the window-sill.
ruТом облокотился о подоконник.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 3
Origin
From Middle English sille, selle, sülle, from Old English syll, syl (“sill, threshold, fouFrom Middle English sille, selle, sülle, from Old English syll, syl (“sill, threshold, foundation, base, basis”), from Proto-Germanic *sulī (“bar, sill”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).
Compare sile.
Compare thill.
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