Word Finder - sill

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(also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.

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A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.

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A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.

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A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

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A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.

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the nasal sill

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The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.

He sat his glass on the window sill and stretched out his legs.

In answer, Carmen set her glass on the sill and stood.

Placing the coffee cup on the window sill, he ran a hand through thick black hair that curled in all the right places.

There was doubtless a similar sill at the lower end for the start of the stadium, this upper one being intended for the start of the diaulos and longer races.

Placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, Dolokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered his legs.

Wiggling her toes in the plushest carpet she'd ever felt, she leaned against the window sill, exhausted yet wired.

She slumped against the sill, hot from the inside out while the late fall breeze chilled her skin.

Sensing motion, she opened her eyes to find Alex leaning across her, placing a long stemmed glass on the window sill beside her.

The samson-post is placed flush with one side of the main sill, the band-wheel jack-post being flush with the other side, so that the walking-beam, which imparts motion to the string of tools, works parallel with the main sill.

It consists of two parts, an outer and tidal harbour 171 acres in extent, and an inner basin 15 acres in extent, with a depth on sill at ordinary spring tide of 25 ft.

He took another sip of his coffee and then absently set it on the window sill.

Every transition can be found between perfectly normal ophitic dolerites and typical hornblende-schists, and occasionally the same dike or sill will provide specimens of all the connecting stages.

Anatole brought two candles and placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light.

One hand moved as if to clutch the window sill, but refrained from touching it.

This range extends from Fort Sill north-westward beyond Granite, a distance of 65 m., with some breaks in the second half of this area.

These fjords are very deep; the greatest depth found by Ryder in Scoresby Sound was 300 fathoms, but there are certainly still greater depths; like the Norwegian fjords they have, however, probably all of them, a threshold or sill, with shallow water, near their mouths.

The goal, which is well preserved at the upper end, is similar to that at Olympia; it consists of a sill of stone sunk level with the ground, with parallel grooves for the feet of the runners at starting, and sockets to hold the posts that separated the spaces assigned to the various competitors, and served as guides to them in running.

The most striking of these dykes is the Great Whin Sill, which crosses the country from a short distance south of Durham almost to the source of the Tees, near Crossfell.

The height to which the water is permitted to rise above the sill of the overflow depends upon the height of the embankment above that level (in the United Kingdom commonly 6 or 7 ft.), and this again should be governed by the height of possible waves.

Obviously we may shorten the sill at the cost of extra height of embankment, but it is rarely wise to do so.

From the overflow sill the bye-wash channel may be gradually narrowed as the crest of the embankment is passed, the water being prevented from attaining undue velocity by steps of heavy masonry, or, where the gradient is not very steep, by irregularly set masonry.

The only window has a deeply splayed aperture, the sloping sill utilizing a cross slab; a modern lintel.

Staring out the bay window at the old house, she abandoned her coffee cup on the window sill.

She set one steaming cup on a coaster beside him and placed hers on the window sill.

Alex choked on his coffee and set the cup back on the sill.

The drum weirs erected across shallow, regulating passes on the river Marne in1857-1867comprise a series of upper and under wrought-iron paddles, which can make a quarter of a revolution round a central axis laid along the sill of the weir.

As an architectural term "bevel" is a sloped or canted edge given to a sill or horizontal course of stone, but is more frequently applied to the canted edges worked round the projecting bands of masonry which for decorative purposes are employed on the quoins of walls or windows and in some cases, with vertical joints, cover the whole wall.

This series contains the great whin sill, an intrusive quartz dolerite, which is one of the interesting features of local geology.

There is also a 13th century effigy of a woman on the sill of the south window.

The Judee Sill sets are particularly exquisite, and highly recommended if you love the slightly odd and haunted singer/songwriter soul baring thing.

She hides my pile ointment behind the mirror on the window sill, and she sprays air freshener and perfume about the place.

She crouched on the window sill and hopped down onto her hands and did a handspring.

Concerning the passenger exit hesitation times for the higher sill height, the trials produced inconclusive results.

On cars without plastic sill protectors, look for rusting at the rear bottom edge of the front wheelarches.

The headland is a sill, mainly composed of dolerite which was intruded horizontally during the Tertiary into gently dipping lower carboniferous shales.

Window to the side aspect with deep tiled sill.

High up in the northern part of the wall a splayed window with sloping sill.

Guest Suite Bedroom 2 (S) built in cupboard housing oil fired hot water cylinder, slate window sill.

Pierre jumped upon the window sill.

For many cats, a sunny window sill is the best seat in the house.

This model is built to fit any window that has a sill.

In Hell, Darkyn stood before the hourglass perched on a window sill in his study.

It was the birthplace of Roger Wolcott, of the older Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797), of Oliver Ellsworth (whose home is now a historical museum), and of Edward Rowland Sill.

There was blood on the sill; a fair amount of it.

The sill panels were matt black and the rear number plate panel was also matt black.

Band of carved vine leaf cornice from the medieval rood screen set along the sill of the window.

I managed to find some sill sections on ebay, and I bought some new front chassis outriggers from a specialist over the phone.

As the repair panels for the inner sill come in two halves I decided to do the front half first.

The offside outer sill is a prime example of an incorrect repair.

Outside the river is a shallow sill, which comes to 4.1 meters of the surface.