What's the difference between widow and window?

Widow


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
  • (a.) Widowed.
  • (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
  • (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.
  • (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
  • (2) I thought she had been put out of her misery by marriage but now she is a widow.
  • (3) In the court of appeal, an agreement was arrived at between the widow of the deceased and the third-party insurance of the person responsible for the accident.
  • (4) Those with lower knowledge of AIDS were more likely to be separated, divorced or widowed, older, and more personally concerned about AIDS.
  • (5) Randall, a former banking computer analyst and a widower with two grownup daughters, learned on Wednesday that charges of "trafficking obscene material" had been dropped and he was to be deported.
  • (6) In his article, Adams also hits out at the controversial history archive in which ex-IRA members name Adams as the commander who gave the order for the widow to be killed and buried at a secret location.
  • (7) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
  • (8) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
  • (9) The qualities of daughter versus same-sex friend relationships were described by 151 married and widowed elderly women.
  • (10) While companies such as Fidelity, Scottish Widows, Standard Life and Aviva will open for business, Royal London, Zurich, Axa and the Pru will not take calls until Tuesday.
  • (11) The mortality from tumours of the gastrointestinal tract in the Canadian population in 1970-72 was 16% higher in single than in married men (on the basis of age-adjusted rates), 25% higher in widowed men and 28% higher in divorced men.
  • (12) This is a right that EU citizens have been campaigning to protect as it accommodates the future care of widowed parents.
  • (13) Today we are starting a new series called ‘Facing my fear’, launching with an essay from a young widow who had to return to the city where she first met her late husband .
  • (14) Lloyds Banking Group, which includes the pension provider Scottish Widows, said it had received between 300 and 400 calls before 3pm.
  • (15) War widows and those on disability living allowance will be exempt from the cap.
  • (16) 'It seems that God punished him already,' said Hajra Catic, of the association representing the mothers and widows of 8,000 Muslim men and boys massacred by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica.
  • (17) Ben Emmerson QC, the lawyer acting for Litvinenko's widow, Marina, said Hague and David Cameron were "dancing to the Russian tarantella" and seeking to "cover up" evidence that the Russian state was behind Litvinenko's polonium poisoning in 2006.
  • (18) The long piece of cloth bearing the image of a man's face and body which is kept in Turin dates from at least 1357 when it was first displayed by the widow of a French knight.
  • (19) Demented patients were more liable to be placed in an institution, as were unmarried or widowed persons and people unable to prepare their own meals.
  • (20) Univariate comparisons showed that in both sexes undesirable life events and social problems were associated with emotional distress; in men the presence of physical symptoms and widowed, separated or divorced status also showed such an association.

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.