What's the difference between transom and window?

Transom


Definition:

  • (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.
  • (n.) One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.
  • (n.) The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks of some gun carriages.
  • (n.) The vane of a cross-staff.
  • (n.) One of the crossbeams connecting the side frames of a truck with each other.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lastly, editors do not, for the most part, sit at their desks waiting for random submissions to come across the transom.
  • (2) There’s stuff that is really ‘top secret’ top secret, and there’s stuff going out to the president or secretary of state, stuff you don’t want on the transom, or going out over the wires” that is basically “open-sourced” material.
  • (3) Sun-loungers are set out on the teak transom, towels rolled in tight cylinders.
  • (4) There’s stuff that is really top secret top secret, and there’s stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state, that you might not want on the transom, or going out over the wire, but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.” “Over-classification run amok” was how Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon described the situation in January when it first emerged that 22 of the emails on the server that were due to be released as part of efforts to show it was harmless had been deemed “top secret” on further review.

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.