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sill¹
- /sɪl/
Rhymes with -ɪl
Where it comes from
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”).
Cognate with Scots sil, sill (“balk, beam, floor, sill”), Dutch zulle (“sill”), Low German Sull, Sülle (“threshold, ramp, sill”), German Süll, Sülle (“threshold, sill”), Danish syld (“base of a framework building”), Swedish syll (“joist, cross-tie”), Norwegian syll, Icelandic syll, sylla (“sill”). Related also to German Schwelle ( > Danish svelle), Old Norse svill, Latin silva (“wood, forest”), Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē).
noun sills · cill
- 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.
- 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.
- A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata. Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses […].
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull. the nasal sill
- The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
sill²
- /sɪl/
Rhymes with -ɪl
Where it comes from
Compare sile.
noun sills · cill
- A young herring.
sill³
- /sɪl/
Rhymes with -ɪl
Where it comes from
Compare thill.
noun sills · cill
- The shaft or thill of a carriage.
sill⁴
- /sɪl/
Rhymes with -ɪl
Where it comes from
Short for silly.
adjective more sill · most sill · cill
- Silly.
Sill⁵
Where it comes from
English surname, variant of Silvester (from Sylvester) and Silvano.
proper noun Sills
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: threshold, doorstep, ledge, bar, shelf, flange, rack, driveshaft, brim, deluge, rim, cut-off, edge, rock, spring, dolerite
Translations
Every language
noun base of a window
| Kiswahili | bado |
|---|---|
| Português | parapeito |
| Français | rebord |
| Deutsch | Fensterbank, Sims, Fensterbrett, Brüstung, Fensterbrüstung |
| Italiano | davanzale |
| Ελληνικά | περβάζι pervázi |
| Română | pervaz |
| Русский | подоко́нник podokónnik |
noun layer of igneous rock
| Español | lámina |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Lagergang, Sill |
| Ελληνικά | στρωματοειδής φλέβα stromatoeidís fléva |
| Русский | силл sill |
noun threshold or brink across the bottom of the upper canal lock
| Deutsch | Drempel, Bodenstufe |
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title = {sill},
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