sill

noun · adjectiveA1

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noun

Plural noun:

sillscill

1.
(architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
2.
(construction) A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
3.
(geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
4.
A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
5.
(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
the nasal sill
6.
(historical)(military, historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
7.
(UK)A young herring.
8.
The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more sillmost sill

Superlative

cill

1.
(rare, slang)Silly.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English sille, selle, sülle, from Old English syll, syl (sill, threshold, foundation, base, basis), from Proto-Germanic *sulī (bar, sill), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (beam, board, frame, threshold).