Definitions for window

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window win·dow

Spelling: [win-doh]

IPA: /ˈwɪn doʊ/

Window is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in window (dinoww).

Definitions for window

noun

1. an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
2. such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed.
3. the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening:
4. a windowpane.
5. anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address.
6. a period of time regarded as highly favorable for initiating or completing something:
7. Military. chaff1 (def 5).
8. Geology. fenster.
9. Pharmacology. the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic.
10. Aerospace. launch window. a specific area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must reenter to arrive safely at its planned destination.
11. Computers. a section of a display screen that can be created for viewing information from another part of a file or from another file:

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a window or windows.
2. Obsolete. to display or put in a window.

Origin of window

1175-1225; Middle English windoge, windowe Old Norse vindauga, equivalent to vindr wind¹ + auga eye

Examples for window

I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.

Her son peeked out the window and told me his mother had left Havana for La Lisa to visit a dying relative.

As it was, The Affair ended its first season last night with me contemplating hurling my television out of the window.

Just then Ben Haley, looking from the window, saw some chickens in the yard.

Hester had seen him from the window, and she answered the bell herself.

Jumping over the window sill, the visitor found himself in this room.

No answer coming, he peered through the window, but saw no one.

The interior video shows the gunman firing the shot through the window.

The younger man rolled down his window to receive the approaching Williams “to see what he wanted.”

And still more of this belated spring will gladden the eye in the florist's window.