(n.) 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.
(n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
(n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
(n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
(n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
(n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.
(n.) A young herring.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's fairly cheap and easy to capture, too: best shot from a moving Peugeot 207, with the camera balanced on the sill of a half-opened side window.
(2) For example, nasal reconstruction may be secondary to repair of deformities of the sill, rim, limen nasi, septum, or nasal bones.
(3) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(4) The lengthening and lowering of the short and sometimes retracted columella and narrowing of the alar bases is performed by making a columellar splitting incision and extending it along the alar sills.
(5) Accumulation of the bacterial plaque on materials used for cosmetic fillings was comparatively evaluated against that on the dental enamel of males and females aged 40-50 yr using the index of Löe & Sillness.
(6) Fewer short-term illnesses were reported by postpartum women than sill-pregnant women, suggesting the potential for recall bias or loss.
(7) Junior to and often feistier than the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera was a spawning ground for top opera talent that included Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Samuel Ramey.
(8) The change in (subischial leg length (SILL)--sitting height (SH)) standard deviation score (SDS) was used as an index of disproportionate segmental growth, which allowed the influence of growth hormone deficiency on growth to be discounted.
(9) The findings of this study with respect to retention of continuous and discrete psychomotor sills closely parallel findings of the three-month retention study.
(10) Significant increases were also observed in the height SDS for bone age (BA), sitting height (SH) SDS and subischial leg length (SILL) SDS.
(11) This reduction in spinal growth is reflected by a strongly positive disproportion score (DPS; [SILL SDS-S.HT SDS] + 2.81).
(12) Nasal floor excess is improved by an excision of the nasal sill.
(13) The limited effectiveness of esculin, a glycoside of 6,7-dihydroxycoumarin prompted research which led to the synthesis of other compounds of the same class, many of which have proved useful as whiteners; though the really broad developments of the 1940's stemmed from the synthesis of the 4,4'-diaminostilbene-2,2'disulfonic acid derivatives which are sill the most important groups of FWAs.
(14) Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
(15) If irradiated peripubertally, annual change in (SILL-SH) SDS to final height was +0.22 SD 0.23, not significantly different from the change over puberty in the prepubertal group.
(16) The lateral subunit is bordered by philtrum column, nostril sill, alar base, and nasolabial crease, while the medial topographic subunit is one-half the philtrum.
(17) This C-junction of the nostril sill allows an alignment of the nasal structure without a primary rhinoplasty.
(18) Either dry or humit warm-air inhalations with coniferous oil additives were prescribed depending on the type of sillness.
(19) The aspidistra of the book's title comes from the pot plants to be found on every window sill which, for Comstock, symbolise all that is wrong with the "mingy, lower-class decency" he is desperate to escape.
(20) The glacier has now become detached from a stabilising sill and is losing ice at a rate of 4.5bn tonnes a year.
Silo
Definition:
(n.) A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is assumed that the dominant fungi may play a part in the etiopathogeny of the bronchial asthma of workers in such silos but investigations should be furthered before reaching a final conclusion.
(2) On the right-hand side of the SRT screen, which all moderators have, there is a menu of options to help them filter content into silos.
(3) Lung diseases in farmers attributable to their occupation include (a) farmer's lung, caused by exposure to mouldy hay, (b) the asthma caused by exposure to grain dust and (c) silo-filler's disease.
(4) But up to now the information gathered by those applications lives in silos.
(5) On Saturday, international activists and local sources said the US-led coalition attacking Isis in Syria had launched strikes on militants attacking Kobani, a town near the Turkish border, and on positions including wheat silos in the east of the country.
(6) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(7) Sally Chisholm of the NHS Technology Adoption Centre blamed "budget silos", as narrow funding streams often present financial disincentives to changing the way of working.
(8) Forage was ensiled in 10 900-kg concrete stave silos; 2 per year were assigned to one of five treatments consisting of control, treatment with an enzyme-chemical product, or treatment with one of three different types of lactic acid bacterial inoculants.
(9) A regionalization model based on silos is presented, including functions, strategies and policies.
(10) Alfalfa, red clover, orchardgrass and timothy were harvested in the vegetative stage, wilted and stored as hay, or ensiled in small batch silos (20 kg) at 60, 40 or 20% (direct cut) dry matter and were analyzed for compositional differences.
(11) The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said the strikes hit the eastern province of Deir el-Zour as well as Raqqa, and also said the coalition targeted wheat silos west of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour.
(12) Of all the parameters tested for in the questionnaire, those with positive serology differed significantly from the whole population only in that a higher proportion of the positives reported exposure to silo gas and illness after uncapping silos.
(13) Silo-fillers' disease was diagnosed because he had allegedly inhaled yellowish gas in the silo.
(14) But after reports of corruption and mismanagement, thousands of tonnes of unsold rice rotting in silos, and suicides among bankrupted farmers, the scheme fell out of favour.
(15) Construction of an external silo dressing over the intact omphalocele membrane allows complete reduction of the giant omphalocele with enlargement of the abdominal cavity before surgical intervention, so that primary closure of the abdominal wall can be achieved.
(16) To assess the relative merits of primary closure, skin flap coverage, and silo reduction, operative treatment of 106 consecutive infants with gastroschisis was reviewed.
(17) Previously, CERTs worked in a siloed fashion, with limited collaboration between them, McMurdie said.
(18) Established cohorts, such as those in Triana, Lake Michigan sportsfishers, the Michigan PBB cohort, residents of farms with PCB-lined silos, and occupational groups, could all be studied further with attention to these research questions.
(19) These things can’t be treated as if they are in silos.
(20) The BBC Trust chairman said Entwistle was undermined by "disparate silos and warring tribes" during his 54 days in charge at the corporation – some of the same management problems he had hoped to address after being appointed in July.