What's the difference between sill and window?

Sill


Definition:

  • (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.

Window


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
  • (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with windows.
  • (v. t.) To place at or in a window.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
  • (2) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
  • (3) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
  • (4) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (5) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
  • (6) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (7) The narrow latency window contained significantly more responses than could be explained by the spontaneous activity rate, but this was not true for the added time permitted by the broad window.
  • (8) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
  • (9) A wide window setting permits both pleura and lung parenchyma to be examined simultaneously.
  • (10) This resulted in greater uniformity of abrasion over the enamel surface within the biopsy window area and better operator handling characteristics.
  • (11) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
  • (12) To assess the window of implantation, same age embryos were transferred onto endometrium of different maturational stages.
  • (13) Simultaneously, reactivity of pial arteriole was observed and its diameter was measured through the cranial window using intravital microscope and width analyzer.
  • (14) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
  • (15) First, the induction and synthesis of specific proteins after brain cell injury provide a window through which insight on the regulation of gene expression in pathological tissue can be obtained.
  • (16) Peculiarities of the central area EEG have been exhibited in all the age groups, and it has been assumed that the central parts of the cortex of a suckling infant are a kind of "window" into the subcortical parts.
  • (17) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (18) Many of the windows in the road shattered.” This was France’s – and western Europe’s – first ever female suicide bombing.
  • (19) These include examination of blood films, which may prove helpful in the diagnosis of Chediak-Higashi syndrome and specific granule deficiency; the Rebuck skin window test, which estimates chemotactic defects; the NBT test, which screens for chronic granulomatous disease patients; and peroxidase staining of the blood film in order to estimate the content of myeloperoxidase, when myeloperoxidase deficiency is suspected.
  • (20) She told Time magazine that “doors and windows were flying” after the blast.