(n.) A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(2) Now the fabric of the school is visibly crumbling: roofs leak and skylights are broken; the estimated cost of repairs is £1m.
(3) Skylight review – Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love | Michael Billington Read more Commentators write glibly about the public’s increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians’ growing contempt for us.
(4) Skylight gives voice to private enterprise’s self-righteous hostility towards those who work in the public services.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest If the indoor park is built, the Astrodome’s thousands of Lucite skylight panels will be swapped for a clear-glass roof.
(6) By virtue of these structural features the eyes should enable this moth not only discrimination of the plane of polarized light but also skylight-orientation via the polarization pattern, depending on moon position.
(7) In the penthouses, alarm clocks can be set to slowly open the skylights to the sound of soothing music, and artworks rotate to reveal TV screens.
(8) There's only 10 of each, so those who covet them need to move quickly ( madebynode.com )… Greenspeak: Daylighting {dey-lie-t'ing} present participle Trend in architecture (possibly because we're not that keen on eco bulbs) to illuminate with natural daylight, making particular use of skylights.
(9) Needless to say, the entire project has also been verified by structural engineers, who reinforced the area around the skylight with "secondary steelwork".
(10) The skylights in the high-ceilinged Victorian central hall were boarded up in the 1960s.
(11) Young Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) learn to perform compass orientation at sunset based on polarized skylight.
(12) The Lodge is walking distance to Los Feliz Village, where you can sip a milkshake in Fred 62 , an iconic 1950s diner, or scour LA's favourite independent bookstore, Skylight Books .
(13) Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways.
(14) The heart of the school is now its glorious hall, flooded with natural light once the skylights were scoured of decades of pigeon droppings and London grime, fitted with expensive sound and stage lighting equipment, in use for assemblies, gym, plays, concerts, reading and recitals all day, every day.
(15) Reaching the summit of the building, where a series of roof terraces spill around the twisting protrusions of the gallery skylights, you are greeted with an eyeful of this stuff, a crazed indulgence of over-engineering – which required the development of 30 technical patents to achieve.
(16) Three alerts are now available about the serious hazards posed by skylights and roof openings, manure pits, and the organic solvent dimethylformamide (DMF).
(17) I tried to reproduce the effect by climbing out a window and draping a yellow duvet cover over the kitchen skylight, but this wasn't terribly successful.
(18) Some houses have bulbous bulls’ heads, accessorised by grapes, jutting out above their front door; others have busts of Greek gods peering over the skylight, moustaches lovingly carved; others complex cornices, ideal for storing 120 years of grime.
(19) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
(20) Above, the dome slopes up close to 200 feet high, its thousands of Lucite skylight panels bulbing out geometrically, like the eyeball of a fly.
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.