Definition of window in English:

window

noun ˈwɪndəʊˈwɪndoʊ

1An opening in the wall or roof of a building or vehicle, fitted with glass in a frame to admit light or air and allow people to see out.
Example sentencesExamples
- Carolyn has opened the bay window in the room and is looking outside, when Liz feels a chill.
- Because of the mild climate there were no glass panes in the windows.
- When I peeked out of the upstairs bedroom window, I spotted Robert's car down the street.
- Both of the front bedroom windows were wide open and Nev sat in a chair by the bed.
- Light is drawn into the room through a large bay window overlooking the front garden.
- Kat glanced out the car window looking around, taking as much of the place into her memory as possible.
- He told the driver where to go and Juliet sat there, gazing out the tinted windows.
- He peered out the upstairs kitchen window to see two men outside.
- I turned my head to the left and saw Rashad leaning out the front passenger side window.
- Her eyes were gazing out the bay window in her room.
- All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments.
- It has wider hallways, higher ceilings, more windows admitting more natural light and more places for students to hang out.
- The apartments and penthouses have double-glazed redwood framed windows, fitted kitchens and gas-fired central heating.
- The thieves broke in by forcing a casement window in the dining room before ransacking the house.
- The driver's window rolled down to reveal Jonathon with a huge grin on his face.
- The front passenger window rolled down just enough so she could see James Alcott.
- The glass panes of some windows in the office and officers' quarters had been broken.
- The living room has a large double-glazed sash window overlooking Macken Street as well as a cast-iron fireplace.
- The apartment has double-glazed sash windows and a cherrywood staircase set into a recessed wall.
- A large shuttered sash window overlooking the communal square makes this an exceptionally bright area.
Synonyms
casement, opening, aperture
1. 1.1 A pane of glass filling a window.
  thieves smashed a window and took £600
  Example sentencesExamples
  In May it was burgled and the Victorian stained glass window was smashed.
  A stained glass window was smashed, along with plaster statues and the church organ, police said.
  The rock smashed two windows and showered one passenger with glass.
  Some teachers say they are too afraid to stay behind after school and such has been the ferocity of the attacks that classrooms were littered with shards of glass from smashed windows.
  Guiding the girls out of the mansion through the smashed windows, Robert led them around to the front of the house.
  I had to visit someone in Leeds Royal Infirmary recently and in there they cleaned the ward daily - floors, walls, windows and bed frames etc.
  She said Mr Corner's car was parked outside the Lysley Arms on July 3 at about 10 pm, when Mr Maddox picked up a stool from the pub and smashed five windows.
  I have lost count of the number of smashed plate glass windows in the town centre, and not just isolated premises, often several at a time.
  Kids recently smashed two windows in his work ute.
  Mobs took advantage of the darkness and set fires, smashed windows and hauled away food, clothing and appliances, while the city went without power.
  The pool was attacked three times last month by vandals who caused thousands of pounds-worth of damage when they ripped out CCTV cameras and smashed windows.
  St Peter's Church has also been a target with stained glass windows smashed.
  Philip Nicholson, 43, said local youths had thrown stones and smashed four windows at his house in Alcuin Avenue, Tang Hall.
  The windows were single pane glass that was stained with smoke, dirt, and the oils from human skin.
  An elderly family, a pregnant woman and children were terrorised when the gang kicked in the front door, smashed windows and shouted racial abuse at them.
  Steady shelling was going on, and there were occasional spatters of machine gun fire through the smashed windows of her refuge.
  In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows.
  In Harare yesterday hundreds of government supporters threw stones and smashed windows at the MDC headquarters.
  The three-day summit left the ancient port of Genoa littered with burnt-out cars, smashed windows and vandalised property.
  In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
2. 1.2 An opening in a wall or screen through which customers are served in a bank, ticket office, or similar building.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I ran across the street to get into the office. There were several customers at the windows, some being served, others waiting to be served.
  Starting July 1st, two female personnel with rulers stand at the ticket windows to determine whether the length of the skirt earns a discount.
  The colors are bright and cheery, and case officers sit at desks arranged in an open plan, rather than behind plexiglass windows.
  About 20 Gothamites are waiting in line in front of old-fashioned, gated bank windows.
  Teller windows at the Bank of France were mobbed by a record crowd as a deadline for declaring franc coins expired, the central bank said on Friday.
  They were carrying a hammer which they banged on the security windows of the bank as they demanded money.
  It is anything but out of the ordinary, too, for the ‘sell-out’ signs to be posted on the ticket office windows of the arena.
  In the ensuing chaos a few minutes after the ticket windows opened, all of the six ticket windows were damaged, and several women collapsed.
  I was taken round the back and made my way in along a little narrow passage to a window serving as a reception desk.
  In the corridor leading to the interview windows, they have panoramic views of cities in America.
  You then presented this screen to the shopper in a pop-up window - something like a cash point ATM window.
  He paid Mr Wood through the window and took a ticket for the Leasgill gate.
  The office was empty, swivel chairs motionless behind open reception windows.
3. 1.3 A space behind the window of a shop where goods are displayed for sale.
  as modifier beautiful window displays
  Example sentencesExamples
  The adjacent shop window display was filled with flowers and decorative plants.
  In that film, shop displays and storefront windows greeted Tom Cruise with ideas of how to enhance his clothing selections.
  This periodic table was spotted last week in Miami in the window of an Armani shop.
  Food-themed window displays in many shops and businesses in the town also added extra interest.
  Almost 50 town centre shops are giving up some of their window space to support carnival week.
  She looked into one of the mirrored windows of a shop to check she looked OK.
  The shop window display is one of the highlights of St Patrick's week in Castlebar.
  Almost every shop has a notice in the window, advising customers of the proprietor's holiday arrangements.
  They would have screamed and broken Gap windows.
  She looked in the windows of the shops, and chatted with some of the store owners.
  To help during the transition period, the shop has put up posters in its windows explaining what customers should do when paying their bills in the future
  Had it been a usual morning, people would have been walking about and peering in various shop display windows along the block.
  As soon as the brown paper came down from the windows, customers started arriving.
  He sped down the streets, looking into the windows of shops and restaurants.
  Yuuba tugged on his mother's torn dress while she seemed to be staring into the window of a shop at a beautiful white silk gown.
  Keiko looked to Otaru, who was avoiding eye contact by looking at the windows of the shops across the street.
  I try to focus on the window displays of the shops that we pass instead of focusing on him.
  Elise was in the front window of her shop, arranging a new display for the upcoming season.
  Retail shops across the length and breadth of the city are dressing up their windows to attract customers.
  The rest of my street was full of similarly old-fashioned houses, a few shops with iron barred windows, well-used cars and a group of bored looking kids hanging out on one corner.
4. 1.4 A means of observing and learning about something.
  television is a window on the world
  Example sentencesExamples
  When a keen reader writes about their reading, they are opening a window into their soul, and inviting you to step inside and share a holy thing.
  Watching Apollo 11 crew member Michael Collins shave is like having a window into a Heinlein novel.
  View them instead as a window into a world where different rules apply, and be thankful you don't live there.
  She gives a window into a fascinating world as she explains the significance of this decision.
  Besides, it gives her a window on community wretchedness and some remarkable efforts to combat it.
  The news media serves as a window to events that we cannot encounter, acting as our eyes and ears when our own eyes and ears are occupied.
  Our very different records are a window into what we believe and what we'll do in the next four years.
  Albuquerque also provided a window into how Iraq is playing with ordinary voters.
  In fact, what you'd mostly see would be the gulfs between the stars, the black expanses that serve as our windows on the rest of the universe.
  A time capsule full of treasures has opened a window into what life was like 113 years ago in Swindon.
  Selectors and critics forget that this is a window on Indian cinema, good Indian cinema.
  Well, they say the eyes are the window to the soul.
  The actors performed A Doll's House, written by Ibsen, which provides a window on the life of a seemingly happy family.
  The report was a window into our boy, in an environment where we are not readily to hand to lean on or put things aright or correct him.
  Vijay Kranti hopes that the current exhibition will help open a window on the life of those who have made the country their own.
  The next few days could be an interesting exercise in self-discovery, and a window into the world of others.
  It's most effective used as a road map of the recent past, or more trivially, a window on what happened the year you were born.
  Doesn't your people believe that the eyes are the window to the soul?
  Channel 5 is currently acting as a window on America, with its America's Finest strand.
  When we started out it was all very fresh and exciting and like opening a window into a new world.
2A transparent panel on an envelope to show an address.
Example sentencesExamples
- Police say the first four letters were sent using window envelopes, with the Elland Road address showing through the window.
- Do you feel obliged to tear out plastic windows in envelopes before recycling them?
- This results in yellowed envelopes, shrunken address windows, and brittle paper.
- However, on examination it transpired that envelope A did not actually have a window.
- Just as I'm posting it, I notice no return address is showing in the envelope's window.
3Computing
A framed area on a display screen for viewing information.
Example sentencesExamples
- The viewer gets the video and audio directly into his Internet browser window.
- This will leave the last update in the client browser's window after your program exits.
- Other differences relate to the rules for entering a phrase into the search engine phrase window.
- Microsoft Windows users can think of a terminal as like a DOS prompt or command window.
- You may need to scroll or resize the pop-up image window to get a good view.
4An interval or opportunity for action.
the parliamentary recess offers a good window for a bid
Example sentencesExamples
- Not only that, we let him go on the last day of the window leaving us no time to invest the incoming funds.
- There seems to be a window of optimal function, not immediately after eating, but between meals.
- The window period for intervention and measurement is therefore often shorter than optimal.
- Interview windows are usually made available to clients five to seven days before the event.
- Events such as the VJ Hunt provide such windows of advertising opportunity.
- According to industry sources familiar with Virgin's plans, the company is assembling a range of offerings the music service will offer with a view to those launch windows.
- There are windows of tourism opportunity opening regularly but no-one available to spot them and act upon them before they slam shut.
- Such a window of ideological opportunity is unlikely to come again soon.
- He smiled at the window of good opportunity that he thought he was getting into.
- The Manchester victory has opened windows and doors of opportunity for New Oak.
- The choice of the time windows should span a range comparable to the delay values used in FCS.
Synonyms
opportunity, opportune time, suitable time, right moment, chance, opening
1. 4.1 An interval during which atmospheric and astronomical circumstances are suitable for the launch of a spacecraft.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I have a system to insure my own safety and compromises are already made to work around task announcements and launch windows.
  No reference to the R200 or to its launch window were made in the Smartshader announcement.
  Unlike for Mars, lunar launch windows are effectively continuous.
  After the launch window opens but before anyone goes we decide to use that task instead of the same task as yesterday.
  The launch windows will move back to the daytime in September.
  In related news, NASA said yesterday that the launch window for its next mission to Mars will open on 10 August.
  I notice that Jim Lamb is suiting up early and he's thinking that its time to go soon after the launch window opens.
  For interplanetary missions, such windows are much stricter than for satellites orbiting the Earth.
  The launch window stays open and no one wants to go given the previous results and the pervasive gloom.
  NASA is aiming to launch the craft during a launch window between 15 May and 3 June.
  For a mission to Mars, such launch windows are available every twenty-six months, for only a couple months at a time.
  And the Gateway would also widen the very narrow launch windows for some planetary missions.
  They found no hint of trouble and were able to make their launch window in time.
5Physics
A range of electromagnetic wavelengths for which a medium (especially the atmosphere) is transparent.
Example sentencesExamples
- All of these windows are in infrared wavelengths, and they are narrow, like the gaps between the slats of a fence.
- A series of overlapping windows representing the full range of sequence divergence were defined.
6mass noun Strips of metal foil dispersed in the air to obstruct radar detection.

Phrases

go out (of) the window

informal (of a plan or pattern of behaviour) no longer exist; disappear.
all pretence at unity went out of the window as cabinet colleagues traded insults
Example sentencesExamples
- When she found herself back in lane one 20 minutes before the race all her plans went out the window.
- I'd pick up drugs straight away and my plans went out of the window.
- All plans to save will go out the window if one parent is not around to bring in an income.
- The first part of Mayo's plan has gone out the window.
- In the early stages, any plans about tactics went out the window.
- My game plan went out of the window within a few minutes as it was so cold that my arms started to stiffen up and I had to change stroke every 50 to 100 yards.
- So the menu plan and the budget went out the window, and as there was only one night left we had to make some quick decisions.
- And if growth comes in sharply lower than Brown expects, all the parties' plans would go out of the window.
- However, that plan quickly went out of the window as Blake's smart pass and turn sent Healy away down the right.
- Eric then switched to his electric guitar, and from what I could make out, all set-list plans went out the window as he had to choose songs that would sound good played on an electric rather than an acoustic.

window of opportunity

A favourable opportunity for doing something that must be seized immediately.
Example sentencesExamples
- I call that the window of opportunity - these dollars that we're receiving.
- Alas, both men missed their windows of opportunity.
- I had missed the window of opportunity to get the jet in the best landing configuration.
- Dave gets on the phone for a while, but then says they have a window of opportunity and must go.
- The Bills may have a one-year window of opportunity before they must rebuild an aging roster.
- Camera in hand, motionless, I waited for the right moment, my window of opportunity.
- Too often restaurants that don't have a sommelier miss this window of opportunity.
- A window of opportunity was created for the national bourgeoisie in the underdeveloped countries.
- There is a unique window of opportunity to seize the advantages produced by the crisis.
- Management, coaches and players view this season as a window of opportunity that must be seized.
Synonyms
chance, lucky chance, good time, golden opportunity, time, occasion, moment, favourable moment, favourable occasion, favourable time, right set of circumstances, appropriate moment, appropriate occasion, appropriate time, suitable moment, suitable occasion, suitable time, opportune moment, opportune occasion, opportune time, opening, option, window, window of opportunity, slot, turn, go, run, clear run, field day

window of vulnerability

An opportunity to attack something that is at risk (especially as a cold war claim that America's land-based missiles were easy targets for a Soviet first strike).
Example sentencesExamples
- This kind of holistic defensive strategy adds a proactive dimension to firewall protection, and ensures that the effects of Zero Day attacks can be minimized by making the window of vulnerability as small as possible.
- This will probably be a window of vulnerability until the human intelligence capabilities are fully rebuilt.
- Even with a window of vulnerability during the period of nuclear development the military option will not always be credible, for a variety of political reasons.
- The real window of vulnerability may be after the stress is over.
- This expands the window of vulnerability wherein critical data is at risk during the rebuild process.
- Few if any of the paratroopers anxiously scanning the northern sky for the telltale dust columns of Iraqi armor advancing south knew that this window of vulnerability could have been avoided.
- That span - much of the first trimester - appears to be a special window of vulnerability for birth defects, Dr. Bell said, just as earlier research has suggested.
- If anti-virus vendors were able to reduce the window of vulnerability to three hours or less, mass-mailing viruses would have little if any impact.
- That's the attitude that makes full disclosure the only viable way to reduce the window of vulnerability.
- Reagan was of course right about the window of vulnerability, and the Soviet Union collapsed just five years later.

the windows of the soul

literary The eyes.
Example sentencesExamples
- I was staring into his pupils, the windows on the soul, but all I saw was blankness.
- The only other male member of the cabin crew was a very appealing young lad by the name of Ian, with dark eyes there were true windows on the soul and some really kissable lips.
- Said to be the windows on the soul, your eyes are often the first thing people notice about you.
- I can't remember who said it, but we have been told that the eyes are windows on the soul.
- Eyes, in Minority Report, are literally windows on the soul, and the soul is that which yearns for brand-name fulfillment.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr 'wind' + auga 'eye'.

Window is from Old Norse vindauga, which literally meant ‘wind eye’. Before that the Anglo-Saxons words were éagthyrl and éagduru, ‘eye hole’ and ‘eye door’. Early windows would generally have been just openings in a wall, sometimes with shutters or curtains. The computing sense ‘a framed area on a screen for viewing information’ was first recorded in 1974, and in 1985 Microsoft released the first version of its Windows operating system. See also eye

Definition of window in US English:

window

nounˈwindōˈwɪndoʊ

1An opening in the wall or roof of a building or vehicle that is fitted with glass or other transparent material in a frame to admit light or air and allow people to see out.
Example sentencesExamples
- It has wider hallways, higher ceilings, more windows admitting more natural light and more places for students to hang out.
- Both of the front bedroom windows were wide open and Nev sat in a chair by the bed.
- Kat glanced out the car window looking around, taking as much of the place into her memory as possible.
- A large shuttered sash window overlooking the communal square makes this an exceptionally bright area.
- The front passenger window rolled down just enough so she could see James Alcott.
- Carolyn has opened the bay window in the room and is looking outside, when Liz feels a chill.
- The apartment has double-glazed sash windows and a cherrywood staircase set into a recessed wall.
- He peered out the upstairs kitchen window to see two men outside.
- When I peeked out of the upstairs bedroom window, I spotted Robert's car down the street.
- The living room has a large double-glazed sash window overlooking Macken Street as well as a cast-iron fireplace.
- The glass panes of some windows in the office and officers' quarters had been broken.
- He told the driver where to go and Juliet sat there, gazing out the tinted windows.
- The driver's window rolled down to reveal Jonathon with a huge grin on his face.
- The apartments and penthouses have double-glazed redwood framed windows, fitted kitchens and gas-fired central heating.
- Because of the mild climate there were no glass panes in the windows.
- I turned my head to the left and saw Rashad leaning out the front passenger side window.
- Light is drawn into the room through a large bay window overlooking the front garden.
- All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments.
- Her eyes were gazing out the bay window in her room.
- The thieves broke in by forcing a casement window in the dining room before ransacking the house.
Synonyms
casement, opening, aperture
1. 1.1 A pane of glass filling a window.
  thieves smashed a window and took $600
  Example sentencesExamples
  An elderly family, a pregnant woman and children were terrorised when the gang kicked in the front door, smashed windows and shouted racial abuse at them.
  In Harare yesterday hundreds of government supporters threw stones and smashed windows at the MDC headquarters.
  Guiding the girls out of the mansion through the smashed windows, Robert led them around to the front of the house.
  A stained glass window was smashed, along with plaster statues and the church organ, police said.
  St Peter's Church has also been a target with stained glass windows smashed.
  In May it was burgled and the Victorian stained glass window was smashed.
  Mobs took advantage of the darkness and set fires, smashed windows and hauled away food, clothing and appliances, while the city went without power.
  Steady shelling was going on, and there were occasional spatters of machine gun fire through the smashed windows of her refuge.
  I had to visit someone in Leeds Royal Infirmary recently and in there they cleaned the ward daily - floors, walls, windows and bed frames etc.
  The three-day summit left the ancient port of Genoa littered with burnt-out cars, smashed windows and vandalised property.
  The windows were single pane glass that was stained with smoke, dirt, and the oils from human skin.
  She said Mr Corner's car was parked outside the Lysley Arms on July 3 at about 10 pm, when Mr Maddox picked up a stool from the pub and smashed five windows.
  Some teachers say they are too afraid to stay behind after school and such has been the ferocity of the attacks that classrooms were littered with shards of glass from smashed windows.
  Philip Nicholson, 43, said local youths had thrown stones and smashed four windows at his house in Alcuin Avenue, Tang Hall.
  The pool was attacked three times last month by vandals who caused thousands of pounds-worth of damage when they ripped out CCTV cameras and smashed windows.
  The rock smashed two windows and showered one passenger with glass.
  I have lost count of the number of smashed plate glass windows in the town centre, and not just isolated premises, often several at a time.
  In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
  In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows.
  Kids recently smashed two windows in his work ute.
2. 1.2 An opening in a wall or screen through which customers are served in a bank, ticket office, or similar building.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He paid Mr Wood through the window and took a ticket for the Leasgill gate.
  You then presented this screen to the shopper in a pop-up window - something like a cash point ATM window.
  Teller windows at the Bank of France were mobbed by a record crowd as a deadline for declaring franc coins expired, the central bank said on Friday.
  The office was empty, swivel chairs motionless behind open reception windows.
  About 20 Gothamites are waiting in line in front of old-fashioned, gated bank windows.
  In the ensuing chaos a few minutes after the ticket windows opened, all of the six ticket windows were damaged, and several women collapsed.
  It is anything but out of the ordinary, too, for the ‘sell-out’ signs to be posted on the ticket office windows of the arena.
  Starting July 1st, two female personnel with rulers stand at the ticket windows to determine whether the length of the skirt earns a discount.
  I ran across the street to get into the office. There were several customers at the windows, some being served, others waiting to be served.
  The colors are bright and cheery, and case officers sit at desks arranged in an open plan, rather than behind plexiglass windows.
  I was taken round the back and made my way in along a little narrow passage to a window serving as a reception desk.
  In the corridor leading to the interview windows, they have panoramic views of cities in America.
  They were carrying a hammer which they banged on the security windows of the bank as they demanded money.
3. 1.3 A space on the inside of a store's window where goods are displayed for sale.
  as modifier beautiful window displays
  I prefer the red dress that's in the window
  Example sentencesExamples
  In that film, shop displays and storefront windows greeted Tom Cruise with ideas of how to enhance his clothing selections.
  Elise was in the front window of her shop, arranging a new display for the upcoming season.
  She looked into one of the mirrored windows of a shop to check she looked OK.
  Food-themed window displays in many shops and businesses in the town also added extra interest.
  This periodic table was spotted last week in Miami in the window of an Armani shop.
  Yuuba tugged on his mother's torn dress while she seemed to be staring into the window of a shop at a beautiful white silk gown.
  Keiko looked to Otaru, who was avoiding eye contact by looking at the windows of the shops across the street.
  Almost 50 town centre shops are giving up some of their window space to support carnival week.
  The rest of my street was full of similarly old-fashioned houses, a few shops with iron barred windows, well-used cars and a group of bored looking kids hanging out on one corner.
  To help during the transition period, the shop has put up posters in its windows explaining what customers should do when paying their bills in the future
  They would have screamed and broken Gap windows.
  Almost every shop has a notice in the window, advising customers of the proprietor's holiday arrangements.
  Retail shops across the length and breadth of the city are dressing up their windows to attract customers.
  I try to focus on the window displays of the shops that we pass instead of focusing on him.
  As soon as the brown paper came down from the windows, customers started arriving.
  The shop window display is one of the highlights of St Patrick's week in Castlebar.
  The adjacent shop window display was filled with flowers and decorative plants.
  He sped down the streets, looking into the windows of shops and restaurants.
  Had it been a usual morning, people would have been walking about and peering in various shop display windows along the block.
  She looked in the windows of the shops, and chatted with some of the store owners.
4. 1.4window on/into/to A means of observing and learning about something.
  television is a window on the world
  Example sentencesExamples
  Albuquerque also provided a window into how Iraq is playing with ordinary voters.
  Selectors and critics forget that this is a window on Indian cinema, good Indian cinema.
  She gives a window into a fascinating world as she explains the significance of this decision.
  Well, they say the eyes are the window to the soul.
  The news media serves as a window to events that we cannot encounter, acting as our eyes and ears when our own eyes and ears are occupied.
  The next few days could be an interesting exercise in self-discovery, and a window into the world of others.
  The report was a window into our boy, in an environment where we are not readily to hand to lean on or put things aright or correct him.
  Doesn't your people believe that the eyes are the window to the soul?
  Watching Apollo 11 crew member Michael Collins shave is like having a window into a Heinlein novel.
  In fact, what you'd mostly see would be the gulfs between the stars, the black expanses that serve as our windows on the rest of the universe.
  When a keen reader writes about their reading, they are opening a window into their soul, and inviting you to step inside and share a holy thing.
  View them instead as a window into a world where different rules apply, and be thankful you don't live there.
  Besides, it gives her a window on community wretchedness and some remarkable efforts to combat it.
  A time capsule full of treasures has opened a window into what life was like 113 years ago in Swindon.
  Vijay Kranti hopes that the current exhibition will help open a window on the life of those who have made the country their own.
  Channel 5 is currently acting as a window on America, with its America's Finest strand.
  The actors performed A Doll's House, written by Ibsen, which provides a window on the life of a seemingly happy family.
  When we started out it was all very fresh and exciting and like opening a window into a new world.
  It's most effective used as a road map of the recent past, or more trivially, a window on what happened the year you were born.
  Our very different records are a window into what we believe and what we'll do in the next four years.
2A transparent panel on an envelope to show an address.
Example sentencesExamples
- This results in yellowed envelopes, shrunken address windows, and brittle paper.
- However, on examination it transpired that envelope A did not actually have a window.
- Police say the first four letters were sent using window envelopes, with the Elland Road address showing through the window.
- Just as I'm posting it, I notice no return address is showing in the envelope's window.
- Do you feel obliged to tear out plastic windows in envelopes before recycling them?
3Computing
A framed area on a display screen for viewing information.
Example sentencesExamples
- Other differences relate to the rules for entering a phrase into the search engine phrase window.
- You may need to scroll or resize the pop-up image window to get a good view.
- This will leave the last update in the client browser's window after your program exits.
- Microsoft Windows users can think of a terminal as like a DOS prompt or command window.
- The viewer gets the video and audio directly into his Internet browser window.
4An interval or opportunity for action.
February 15 to March 15 should be the final window for new offers
Example sentencesExamples
- Such a window of ideological opportunity is unlikely to come again soon.
- He smiled at the window of good opportunity that he thought he was getting into.
- The window period for intervention and measurement is therefore often shorter than optimal.
- According to industry sources familiar with Virgin's plans, the company is assembling a range of offerings the music service will offer with a view to those launch windows.
- The choice of the time windows should span a range comparable to the delay values used in FCS.
- Events such as the VJ Hunt provide such windows of advertising opportunity.
- Not only that, we let him go on the last day of the window leaving us no time to invest the incoming funds.
- Interview windows are usually made available to clients five to seven days before the event.
- There are windows of tourism opportunity opening regularly but no-one available to spot them and act upon them before they slam shut.
- The Manchester victory has opened windows and doors of opportunity for New Oak.
- There seems to be a window of optimal function, not immediately after eating, but between meals.
Synonyms
opportunity, opportune time, suitable time, right moment, chance, opening
1. 4.1 An interval during which atmospheric and astronomical circumstances are suitable for the launch of a spacecraft.
  Example sentencesExamples
  For a mission to Mars, such launch windows are available every twenty-six months, for only a couple months at a time.
  They found no hint of trouble and were able to make their launch window in time.
  And the Gateway would also widen the very narrow launch windows for some planetary missions.
  Unlike for Mars, lunar launch windows are effectively continuous.
  The launch windows will move back to the daytime in September.
  No reference to the R200 or to its launch window were made in the Smartshader announcement.
  After the launch window opens but before anyone goes we decide to use that task instead of the same task as yesterday.
  I have a system to insure my own safety and compromises are already made to work around task announcements and launch windows.
  For interplanetary missions, such windows are much stricter than for satellites orbiting the Earth.
  The launch window stays open and no one wants to go given the previous results and the pervasive gloom.
  I notice that Jim Lamb is suiting up early and he's thinking that its time to go soon after the launch window opens.
  NASA is aiming to launch the craft during a launch window between 15 May and 3 June.
  In related news, NASA said yesterday that the launch window for its next mission to Mars will open on 10 August.
5Physics
A range of electromagnetic wavelengths for which a medium (especially the atmosphere) is transparent.
Example sentencesExamples
- All of these windows are in infrared wavelengths, and they are narrow, like the gaps between the slats of a fence.
- A series of overlapping windows representing the full range of sequence divergence were defined.
6Strips of metal foil or metal filings dispersed in the air to obstruct radar detection.

Phrases

go out (of) the window

informal (of a plan or pattern or behavior) no longer exist; disappear.
Example sentencesExamples
- I'd pick up drugs straight away and my plans went out of the window.
- My game plan went out of the window within a few minutes as it was so cold that my arms started to stiffen up and I had to change stroke every 50 to 100 yards.
- So the menu plan and the budget went out the window, and as there was only one night left we had to make some quick decisions.
- In the early stages, any plans about tactics went out the window.
- The first part of Mayo's plan has gone out the window.
- When she found herself back in lane one 20 minutes before the race all her plans went out the window.
- And if growth comes in sharply lower than Brown expects, all the parties' plans would go out of the window.
- All plans to save will go out the window if one parent is not around to bring in an income.
- However, that plan quickly went out of the window as Blake's smart pass and turn sent Healy away down the right.
- Eric then switched to his electric guitar, and from what I could make out, all set-list plans went out the window as he had to choose songs that would sound good played on an electric rather than an acoustic.

window of opportunity

A favorable opportunity for doing something that must be seized immediately if it is not to be missed.
Example sentencesExamples
- Dave gets on the phone for a while, but then says they have a window of opportunity and must go.
- Camera in hand, motionless, I waited for the right moment, my window of opportunity.
- The Bills may have a one-year window of opportunity before they must rebuild an aging roster.
- I had missed the window of opportunity to get the jet in the best landing configuration.
- Alas, both men missed their windows of opportunity.
- Management, coaches and players view this season as a window of opportunity that must be seized.
- Too often restaurants that don't have a sommelier miss this window of opportunity.
- There is a unique window of opportunity to seize the advantages produced by the crisis.
- I call that the window of opportunity - these dollars that we're receiving.
- A window of opportunity was created for the national bourgeoisie in the underdeveloped countries.
Synonyms
chance, lucky chance, good time, golden opportunity, time, occasion, moment, favourable moment, favourable occasion, favourable time, right set of circumstances, appropriate moment, appropriate occasion, appropriate time, suitable moment, suitable occasion, suitable time, opportune moment, opportune occasion, opportune time, opening, option, window, window of opportunity, slot, turn, go, run, clear run, field day

window of vulnerability

An opportunity to attack something that is at risk (especially as a cold war claim that America's land-based missiles were easy targets for a Soviet first strike).
Example sentencesExamples
- This will probably be a window of vulnerability until the human intelligence capabilities are fully rebuilt.
- Even with a window of vulnerability during the period of nuclear development the military option will not always be credible, for a variety of political reasons.
- If anti-virus vendors were able to reduce the window of vulnerability to three hours or less, mass-mailing viruses would have little if any impact.
- This kind of holistic defensive strategy adds a proactive dimension to firewall protection, and ensures that the effects of Zero Day attacks can be minimized by making the window of vulnerability as small as possible.
- That span - much of the first trimester - appears to be a special window of vulnerability for birth defects, Dr. Bell said, just as earlier research has suggested.
- Reagan was of course right about the window of vulnerability, and the Soviet Union collapsed just five years later.
- This expands the window of vulnerability wherein critical data is at risk during the rebuild process.
- That's the attitude that makes full disclosure the only viable way to reduce the window of vulnerability.
- The real window of vulnerability may be after the stress is over.
- Few if any of the paratroopers anxiously scanning the northern sky for the telltale dust columns of Iraqi armor advancing south knew that this window of vulnerability could have been avoided.

windows of the soul

Organs of sense, especially the eyes.
Example sentencesExamples
- The only other male member of the cabin crew was a very appealing young lad by the name of Ian, with dark eyes there were true windows on the soul and some really kissable lips.
- Eyes, in Minority Report, are literally windows on the soul, and the soul is that which yearns for brand-name fulfillment.
- I can't remember who said it, but we have been told that the eyes are windows on the soul.
- I was staring into his pupils, the windows on the soul, but all I saw was blankness.
- Said to be the windows on the soul, your eyes are often the first thing people notice about you.

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr ‘wind’ + auga ‘eye’.

单词	window
释义	Definition of window in English: window noun ˈwɪndəʊˈwɪndoʊ 1An opening in the wall or roof of a building or vehicle, fitted with glass in a frame to admit light or air and allow people to see out. Example sentencesExamples Carolyn has opened the bay window in the room and is looking outside, when Liz feels a chill. Because of the mild climate there were no glass panes in the windows. When I peeked out of the upstairs bedroom window, I spotted Robert's car down the street. Both of the front bedroom windows were wide open and Nev sat in a chair by the bed. Light is drawn into the room through a large bay window overlooking the front garden. Kat glanced out the car window looking around, taking as much of the place into her memory as possible. He told the driver where to go and Juliet sat there, gazing out the tinted windows. He peered out the upstairs kitchen window to see two men outside. I turned my head to the left and saw Rashad leaning out the front passenger side window. Her eyes were gazing out the bay window in her room. All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments. It has wider hallways, higher ceilings, more windows admitting more natural light and more places for students to hang out. The apartments and penthouses have double-glazed redwood framed windows, fitted kitchens and gas-fired central heating. The thieves broke in by forcing a casement window in the dining room before ransacking the house. The driver's window rolled down to reveal Jonathon with a huge grin on his face. The front passenger window rolled down just enough so she could see James Alcott. The glass panes of some windows in the office and officers' quarters had been broken. The living room has a large double-glazed sash window overlooking Macken Street as well as a cast-iron fireplace. The apartment has double-glazed sash windows and a cherrywood staircase set into a recessed wall. A large shuttered sash window overlooking the communal square makes this an exceptionally bright area. Synonyms casement, opening, aperture 1.1 A pane of glass filling a window. thieves smashed a window and took £600 Example sentencesExamples In May it was burgled and the Victorian stained glass window was smashed. A stained glass window was smashed, along with plaster statues and the church organ, police said. The rock smashed two windows and showered one passenger with glass. Some teachers say they are too afraid to stay behind after school and such has been the ferocity of the attacks that classrooms were littered with shards of glass from smashed windows. Guiding the girls out of the mansion through the smashed windows, Robert led them around to the front of the house. I had to visit someone in Leeds Royal Infirmary recently and in there they cleaned the ward daily - floors, walls, windows and bed frames etc. She said Mr Corner's car was parked outside the Lysley Arms on July 3 at about 10 pm, when Mr Maddox picked up a stool from the pub and smashed five windows. I have lost count of the number of smashed plate glass windows in the town centre, and not just isolated premises, often several at a time. Kids recently smashed two windows in his work ute. Mobs took advantage of the darkness and set fires, smashed windows and hauled away food, clothing and appliances, while the city went without power. The pool was attacked three times last month by vandals who caused thousands of pounds-worth of damage when they ripped out CCTV cameras and smashed windows. St Peter's Church has also been a target with stained glass windows smashed. Philip Nicholson, 43, said local youths had thrown stones and smashed four windows at his house in Alcuin Avenue, Tang Hall. The windows were single pane glass that was stained with smoke, dirt, and the oils from human skin. An elderly family, a pregnant woman and children were terrorised when the gang kicked in the front door, smashed windows and shouted racial abuse at them. Steady shelling was going on, and there were occasional spatters of machine gun fire through the smashed windows of her refuge. In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows. In Harare yesterday hundreds of government supporters threw stones and smashed windows at the MDC headquarters. The three-day summit left the ancient port of Genoa littered with burnt-out cars, smashed windows and vandalised property. In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door. 1.2 An opening in a wall or screen through which customers are served in a bank, ticket office, or similar building. Example sentencesExamples I ran across the street to get into the office. There were several customers at the windows, some being served, others waiting to be served. Starting July 1st, two female personnel with rulers stand at the ticket windows to determine whether the length of the skirt earns a discount. The colors are bright and cheery, and case officers sit at desks arranged in an open plan, rather than behind plexiglass windows. About 20 Gothamites are waiting in line in front of old-fashioned, gated bank windows. Teller windows at the Bank of France were mobbed by a record crowd as a deadline for declaring franc coins expired, the central bank said on Friday. They were carrying a hammer which they banged on the security windows of the bank as they demanded money. It is anything but out of the ordinary, too, for the ‘sell-out’ signs to be posted on the ticket office windows of the arena. In the ensuing chaos a few minutes after the ticket windows opened, all of the six ticket windows were damaged, and several women collapsed. I was taken round the back and made my way in along a little narrow passage to a window serving as a reception desk. In the corridor leading to the interview windows, they have panoramic views of cities in America. You then presented this screen to the shopper in a pop-up window - something like a cash point ATM window. He paid Mr Wood through the window and took a ticket for the Leasgill gate. The office was empty, swivel chairs motionless behind open reception windows. 1.3 A space behind the window of a shop where goods are displayed for sale. as modifier beautiful window displays Example sentencesExamples The adjacent shop window display was filled with flowers and decorative plants. In that film, shop displays and storefront windows greeted Tom Cruise with ideas of how to enhance his clothing selections. This periodic table was spotted last week in Miami in the window of an Armani shop. Food-themed window displays in many shops and businesses in the town also added extra interest. Almost 50 town centre shops are giving up some of their window space to support carnival week. She looked into one of the mirrored windows of a shop to check she looked OK. The shop window display is one of the highlights of St Patrick's week in Castlebar. Almost every shop has a notice in the window, advising customers of the proprietor's holiday arrangements. They would have screamed and broken Gap windows. She looked in the windows of the shops, and chatted with some of the store owners. To help during the transition period, the shop has put up posters in its windows explaining what customers should do when paying their bills in the future Had it been a usual morning, people would have been walking about and peering in various shop display windows along the block. As soon as the brown paper came down from the windows, customers started arriving. He sped down the streets, looking into the windows of shops and restaurants. Yuuba tugged on his mother's torn dress while she seemed to be staring into the window of a shop at a beautiful white silk gown. Keiko looked to Otaru, who was avoiding eye contact by looking at the windows of the shops across the street. I try to focus on the window displays of the shops that we pass instead of focusing on him. Elise was in the front window of her shop, arranging a new display for the upcoming season. Retail shops across the length and breadth of the city are dressing up their windows to attract customers. The rest of my street was full of similarly old-fashioned houses, a few shops with iron barred windows, well-used cars and a group of bored looking kids hanging out on one corner. 1.4 A means of observing and learning about something. television is a window on the world Example sentencesExamples When a keen reader writes about their reading, they are opening a window into their soul, and inviting you to step inside and share a holy thing. Watching Apollo 11 crew member Michael Collins shave is like having a window into a Heinlein novel. View them instead as a window into a world where different rules apply, and be thankful you don't live there. She gives a window into a fascinating world as she explains the significance of this decision. Besides, it gives her a window on community wretchedness and some remarkable efforts to combat it. The news media serves as a window to events that we cannot encounter, acting as our eyes and ears when our own eyes and ears are occupied. Our very different records are a window into what we believe and what we'll do in the next four years. Albuquerque also provided a window into how Iraq is playing with ordinary voters. In fact, what you'd mostly see would be the gulfs between the stars, the black expanses that serve as our windows on the rest of the universe. A time capsule full of treasures has opened a window into what life was like 113 years ago in Swindon. Selectors and critics forget that this is a window on Indian cinema, good Indian cinema. Well, they say the eyes are the window to the soul. The actors performed A Doll's House, written by Ibsen, which provides a window on the life of a seemingly happy family. The report was a window into our boy, in an environment where we are not readily to hand to lean on or put things aright or correct him. Vijay Kranti hopes that the current exhibition will help open a window on the life of those who have made the country their own. The next few days could be an interesting exercise in self-discovery, and a window into the world of others. It's most effective used as a road map of the recent past, or more trivially, a window on what happened the year you were born. Doesn't your people believe that the eyes are the window to the soul? Channel 5 is currently acting as a window on America, with its America's Finest strand. When we started out it was all very fresh and exciting and like opening a window into a new world. 2A transparent panel on an envelope to show an address. Example sentencesExamples Police say the first four letters were sent using window envelopes, with the Elland Road address showing through the window. Do you feel obliged to tear out plastic windows in envelopes before recycling them? This results in yellowed envelopes, shrunken address windows, and brittle paper. However, on examination it transpired that envelope A did not actually have a window. Just as I'm posting it, I notice no return address is showing in the envelope's window. 3Computing A framed area on a display screen for viewing information. Example sentencesExamples The viewer gets the video and audio directly into his Internet browser window. This will leave the last update in the client browser's window after your program exits. Other differences relate to the rules for entering a phrase into the search engine phrase window. Microsoft Windows users can think of a terminal as like a DOS prompt or command window. You may need to scroll or resize the pop-up image window to get a good view. 4An interval or opportunity for action. the parliamentary recess offers a good window for a bid Example sentencesExamples Not only that, we let him go on the last day of the window leaving us no time to invest the incoming funds. There seems to be a window of optimal function, not immediately after eating, but between meals. The window period for intervention and measurement is therefore often shorter than optimal. Interview windows are usually made available to clients five to seven days before the event. Events such as the VJ Hunt provide such windows of advertising opportunity. According to industry sources familiar with Virgin's plans, the company is assembling a range of offerings the music service will offer with a view to those launch windows. There are windows of tourism opportunity opening regularly but no-one available to spot them and act upon them before they slam shut. Such a window of ideological opportunity is unlikely to come again soon. He smiled at the window of good opportunity that he thought he was getting into. The Manchester victory has opened windows and doors of opportunity for New Oak. The choice of the time windows should span a range comparable to the delay values used in FCS. Synonyms opportunity, opportune time, suitable time, right moment, chance, opening 4.1 An interval during which atmospheric and astronomical circumstances are suitable for the launch of a spacecraft. Example sentencesExamples I have a system to insure my own safety and compromises are already made to work around task announcements and launch windows. No reference to the R200 or to its launch window were made in the Smartshader announcement. Unlike for Mars, lunar launch windows are effectively continuous. After the launch window opens but before anyone goes we decide to use that task instead of the same task as yesterday. The launch windows will move back to the daytime in September. In related news, NASA said yesterday that the launch window for its next mission to Mars will open on 10 August. I notice that Jim Lamb is suiting up early and he's thinking that its time to go soon after the launch window opens. For interplanetary missions, such windows are much stricter than for satellites orbiting the Earth. The launch window stays open and no one wants to go given the previous results and the pervasive gloom. NASA is aiming to launch the craft during a launch window between 15 May and 3 June. For a mission to Mars, such launch windows are available every twenty-six months, for only a couple months at a time. And the Gateway would also widen the very narrow launch windows for some planetary missions. They found no hint of trouble and were able to make their launch window in time. 5Physics A range of electromagnetic wavelengths for which a medium (especially the atmosphere) is transparent. Example sentencesExamples All of these windows are in infrared wavelengths, and they are narrow, like the gaps between the slats of a fence. A series of overlapping windows representing the full range of sequence divergence were defined. 6mass noun Strips of metal foil dispersed in the air to obstruct radar detection. Phrases go out (of) the window informal (of a plan or pattern of behaviour) no longer exist; disappear. all pretence at unity went out of the window as cabinet colleagues traded insults Example sentencesExamples When she found herself back in lane one 20 minutes before the race all her plans went out the window. I'd pick up drugs straight away and my plans went out of the window. All plans to save will go out the window if one parent is not around to bring in an income. The first part of Mayo's plan has gone out the window. In the early stages, any plans about tactics went out the window. My game plan went out of the window within a few minutes as it was so cold that my arms started to stiffen up and I had to change stroke every 50 to 100 yards. So the menu plan and the budget went out the window, and as there was only one night left we had to make some quick decisions. And if growth comes in sharply lower than Brown expects, all the parties' plans would go out of the window. However, that plan quickly went out of the window as Blake's smart pass and turn sent Healy away down the right. Eric then switched to his electric guitar, and from what I could make out, all set-list plans went out the window as he had to choose songs that would sound good played on an electric rather than an acoustic. window of opportunity A favourable opportunity for doing something that must be seized immediately. Example sentencesExamples I call that the window of opportunity - these dollars that we're receiving. Alas, both men missed their windows of opportunity. I had missed the window of opportunity to get the jet in the best landing configuration. Dave gets on the phone for a while, but then says they have a window of opportunity and must go. The Bills may have a one-year window of opportunity before they must rebuild an aging roster. Camera in hand, motionless, I waited for the right moment, my window of opportunity. Too often restaurants that don't have a sommelier miss this window of opportunity. A window of opportunity was created for the national bourgeoisie in the underdeveloped countries. There is a unique window of opportunity to seize the advantages produced by the crisis. Management, coaches and players view this season as a window of opportunity that must be seized. Synonyms chance, lucky chance, good time, golden opportunity, time, occasion, moment, favourable moment, favourable occasion, favourable time, right set of circumstances, appropriate moment, appropriate occasion, appropriate time, suitable moment, suitable occasion, suitable time, opportune moment, opportune occasion, opportune time, opening, option, window, window of opportunity, slot, turn, go, run, clear run, field day window of vulnerability An opportunity to attack something that is at risk (especially as a cold war claim that America's land-based missiles were easy targets for a Soviet first strike). Example sentencesExamples This kind of holistic defensive strategy adds a proactive dimension to firewall protection, and ensures that the effects of Zero Day attacks can be minimized by making the window of vulnerability as small as possible. This will probably be a window of vulnerability until the human intelligence capabilities are fully rebuilt. Even with a window of vulnerability during the period of nuclear development the military option will not always be credible, for a variety of political reasons. The real window of vulnerability may be after the stress is over. This expands the window of vulnerability wherein critical data is at risk during the rebuild process. Few if any of the paratroopers anxiously scanning the northern sky for the telltale dust columns of Iraqi armor advancing south knew that this window of vulnerability could have been avoided. That span - much of the first trimester - appears to be a special window of vulnerability for birth defects, Dr. Bell said, just as earlier research has suggested. If anti-virus vendors were able to reduce the window of vulnerability to three hours or less, mass-mailing viruses would have little if any impact. That's the attitude that makes full disclosure the only viable way to reduce the window of vulnerability. Reagan was of course right about the window of vulnerability, and the Soviet Union collapsed just five years later. the windows of the soul literary The eyes. Example sentencesExamples I was staring into his pupils, the windows on the soul, but all I saw was blankness. The only other male member of the cabin crew was a very appealing young lad by the name of Ian, with dark eyes there were true windows on the soul and some really kissable lips. Said to be the windows on the soul, your eyes are often the first thing people notice about you. I can't remember who said it, but we have been told that the eyes are windows on the soul. Eyes, in Minority Report, are literally windows on the soul, and the soul is that which yearns for brand-name fulfillment. Origin Middle English: from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr 'wind' + auga 'eye'. Window is from Old Norse vindauga, which literally meant ‘wind eye’. Before that the Anglo-Saxons words were éagthyrl and éagduru, ‘eye hole’ and ‘eye door’. Early windows would generally have been just openings in a wall, sometimes with shutters or curtains. The computing sense ‘a framed area on a screen for viewing information’ was first recorded in 1974, and in 1985 Microsoft released the first version of its Windows operating system. See also eye noun.1 phr. Definition of window in US English: window nounˈwindōˈwɪndoʊ 1An opening in the wall or roof of a building or vehicle that is fitted with glass or other transparent material in a frame to admit light or air and allow people to see out. Example sentencesExamples It has wider hallways, higher ceilings, more windows admitting more natural light and more places for students to hang out. Both of the front bedroom windows were wide open and Nev sat in a chair by the bed. Kat glanced out the car window looking around, taking as much of the place into her memory as possible. A large shuttered sash window overlooking the communal square makes this an exceptionally bright area. The front passenger window rolled down just enough so she could see James Alcott. Carolyn has opened the bay window in the room and is looking outside, when Liz feels a chill. The apartment has double-glazed sash windows and a cherrywood staircase set into a recessed wall. He peered out the upstairs kitchen window to see two men outside. When I peeked out of the upstairs bedroom window, I spotted Robert's car down the street. The living room has a large double-glazed sash window overlooking Macken Street as well as a cast-iron fireplace. The glass panes of some windows in the office and officers' quarters had been broken. He told the driver where to go and Juliet sat there, gazing out the tinted windows. The driver's window rolled down to reveal Jonathon with a huge grin on his face. The apartments and penthouses have double-glazed redwood framed windows, fitted kitchens and gas-fired central heating. Because of the mild climate there were no glass panes in the windows. I turned my head to the left and saw Rashad leaning out the front passenger side window. Light is drawn into the room through a large bay window overlooking the front garden. All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments. Her eyes were gazing out the bay window in her room. The thieves broke in by forcing a casement window in the dining room before ransacking the house. Synonyms casement, opening, aperture 1.1 A pane of glass filling a window. thieves smashed a window and took $600 Example sentencesExamples An elderly family, a pregnant woman and children were terrorised when the gang kicked in the front door, smashed windows and shouted racial abuse at them. In Harare yesterday hundreds of government supporters threw stones and smashed windows at the MDC headquarters. Guiding the girls out of the mansion through the smashed windows, Robert led them around to the front of the house. A stained glass window was smashed, along with plaster statues and the church organ, police said. St Peter's Church has also been a target with stained glass windows smashed. In May it was burgled and the Victorian stained glass window was smashed. Mobs took advantage of the darkness and set fires, smashed windows and hauled away food, clothing and appliances, while the city went without power. Steady shelling was going on, and there were occasional spatters of machine gun fire through the smashed windows of her refuge. I had to visit someone in Leeds Royal Infirmary recently and in there they cleaned the ward daily - floors, walls, windows and bed frames etc. The three-day summit left the ancient port of Genoa littered with burnt-out cars, smashed windows and vandalised property. The windows were single pane glass that was stained with smoke, dirt, and the oils from human skin. She said Mr Corner's car was parked outside the Lysley Arms on July 3 at about 10 pm, when Mr Maddox picked up a stool from the pub and smashed five windows. Some teachers say they are too afraid to stay behind after school and such has been the ferocity of the attacks that classrooms were littered with shards of glass from smashed windows. Philip Nicholson, 43, said local youths had thrown stones and smashed four windows at his house in Alcuin Avenue, Tang Hall. The pool was attacked three times last month by vandals who caused thousands of pounds-worth of damage when they ripped out CCTV cameras and smashed windows. The rock smashed two windows and showered one passenger with glass. I have lost count of the number of smashed plate glass windows in the town centre, and not just isolated premises, often several at a time. In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door. In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows. Kids recently smashed two windows in his work ute. 1.2 An opening in a wall or screen through which customers are served in a bank, ticket office, or similar building. Example sentencesExamples He paid Mr Wood through the window and took a ticket for the Leasgill gate. You then presented this screen to the shopper in a pop-up window - something like a cash point ATM window. Teller windows at the Bank of France were mobbed by a record crowd as a deadline for declaring franc coins expired, the central bank said on Friday. The office was empty, swivel chairs motionless behind open reception windows. About 20 Gothamites are waiting in line in front of old-fashioned, gated bank windows. In the ensuing chaos a few minutes after the ticket windows opened, all of the six ticket windows were damaged, and several women collapsed. It is anything but out of the ordinary, too, for the ‘sell-out’ signs to be posted on the ticket office windows of the arena. Starting July 1st, two female personnel with rulers stand at the ticket windows to determine whether the length of the skirt earns a discount. I ran across the street to get into the office. There were several customers at the windows, some being served, others waiting to be served. The colors are bright and cheery, and case officers sit at desks arranged in an open plan, rather than behind plexiglass windows. I was taken round the back and made my way in along a little narrow passage to a window serving as a reception desk. In the corridor leading to the interview windows, they have panoramic views of cities in America. They were carrying a hammer which they banged on the security windows of the bank as they demanded money. 1.3 A space on the inside of a store's window where goods are displayed for sale. as modifier beautiful window displays I prefer the red dress that's in the window Example sentencesExamples In that film, shop displays and storefront windows greeted Tom Cruise with ideas of how to enhance his clothing selections. Elise was in the front window of her shop, arranging a new display for the upcoming season. She looked into one of the mirrored windows of a shop to check she looked OK. Food-themed window displays in many shops and businesses in the town also added extra interest. This periodic table was spotted last week in Miami in the window of an Armani shop. Yuuba tugged on his mother's torn dress while she seemed to be staring into the window of a shop at a beautiful white silk gown. Keiko looked to Otaru, who was avoiding eye contact by looking at the windows of the shops across the street. Almost 50 town centre shops are giving up some of their window space to support carnival week. The rest of my street was full of similarly old-fashioned houses, a few shops with iron barred windows, well-used cars and a group of bored looking kids hanging out on one corner. To help during the transition period, the shop has put up posters in its windows explaining what customers should do when paying their bills in the future They would have screamed and broken Gap windows. Almost every shop has a notice in the window, advising customers of the proprietor's holiday arrangements. Retail shops across the length and breadth of the city are dressing up their windows to attract customers. I try to focus on the window displays of the shops that we pass instead of focusing on him. As soon as the brown paper came down from the windows, customers started arriving. The shop window display is one of the highlights of St Patrick's week in Castlebar. The adjacent shop window display was filled with flowers and decorative plants. He sped down the streets, looking into the windows of shops and restaurants. Had it been a usual morning, people would have been walking about and peering in various shop display windows along the block. She looked in the windows of the shops, and chatted with some of the store owners. 1.4window on/into/to A means of observing and learning about something. television is a window on the world Example sentencesExamples Albuquerque also provided a window into how Iraq is playing with ordinary voters. Selectors and critics forget that this is a window on Indian cinema, good Indian cinema. She gives a window into a fascinating world as she explains the significance of this decision. Well, they say the eyes are the window to the soul. The news media serves as a window to events that we cannot encounter, acting as our eyes and ears when our own eyes and ears are occupied. The next few days could be an interesting exercise in self-discovery, and a window into the world of others. The report was a window into our boy, in an environment where we are not readily to hand to lean on or put things aright or correct him. Doesn't your people believe that the eyes are the window to the soul? Watching Apollo 11 crew member Michael Collins shave is like having a window into a Heinlein novel. In fact, what you'd mostly see would be the gulfs between the stars, the black expanses that serve as our windows on the rest of the universe. When a keen reader writes about their reading, they are opening a window into their soul, and inviting you to step inside and share a holy thing. View them instead as a window into a world where different rules apply, and be thankful you don't live there. Besides, it gives her a window on community wretchedness and some remarkable efforts to combat it. A time capsule full of treasures has opened a window into what life was like 113 years ago in Swindon. Vijay Kranti hopes that the current exhibition will help open a window on the life of those who have made the country their own. Channel 5 is currently acting as a window on America, with its America's Finest strand. The actors performed A Doll's House, written by Ibsen, which provides a window on the life of a seemingly happy family. When we started out it was all very fresh and exciting and like opening a window into a new world. It's most effective used as a road map of the recent past, or more trivially, a window on what happened the year you were born. Our very different records are a window into what we believe and what we'll do in the next four years. 2A transparent panel on an envelope to show an address. Example sentencesExamples This results in yellowed envelopes, shrunken address windows, and brittle paper. However, on examination it transpired that envelope A did not actually have a window. Police say the first four letters were sent using window envelopes, with the Elland Road address showing through the window. Just as I'm posting it, I notice no return address is showing in the envelope's window. Do you feel obliged to tear out plastic windows in envelopes before recycling them? 3Computing A framed area on a display screen for viewing information. Example sentencesExamples Other differences relate to the rules for entering a phrase into the search engine phrase window. You may need to scroll or resize the pop-up image window to get a good view. This will leave the last update in the client browser's window after your program exits. Microsoft Windows users can think of a terminal as like a DOS prompt or command window. The viewer gets the video and audio directly into his Internet browser window. 4An interval or opportunity for action. February 15 to March 15 should be the final window for new offers Example sentencesExamples Such a window of ideological opportunity is unlikely to come again soon. He smiled at the window of good opportunity that he thought he was getting into. The window period for intervention and measurement is therefore often shorter than optimal. According to industry sources familiar with Virgin's plans, the company is assembling a range of offerings the music service will offer with a view to those launch windows. The choice of the time windows should span a range comparable to the delay values used in FCS. Events such as the VJ Hunt provide such windows of advertising opportunity. Not only that, we let him go on the last day of the window leaving us no time to invest the incoming funds. Interview windows are usually made available to clients five to seven days before the event. There are windows of tourism opportunity opening regularly but no-one available to spot them and act upon them before they slam shut. The Manchester victory has opened windows and doors of opportunity for New Oak. There seems to be a window of optimal function, not immediately after eating, but between meals. Synonyms opportunity, opportune time, suitable time, right moment, chance, opening 4.1 An interval during which atmospheric and astronomical circumstances are suitable for the launch of a spacecraft. Example sentencesExamples For a mission to Mars, such launch windows are available every twenty-six months, for only a couple months at a time. They found no hint of trouble and were able to make their launch window in time. And the Gateway would also widen the very narrow launch windows for some planetary missions. Unlike for Mars, lunar launch windows are effectively continuous. The launch windows will move back to the daytime in September. No reference to the R200 or to its launch window were made in the Smartshader announcement. After the launch window opens but before anyone goes we decide to use that task instead of the same task as yesterday. I have a system to insure my own safety and compromises are already made to work around task announcements and launch windows. For interplanetary missions, such windows are much stricter than for satellites orbiting the Earth. The launch window stays open and no one wants to go given the previous results and the pervasive gloom. I notice that Jim Lamb is suiting up early and he's thinking that its time to go soon after the launch window opens. NASA is aiming to launch the craft during a launch window between 15 May and 3 June. In related news, NASA said yesterday that the launch window for its next mission to Mars will open on 10 August. 5Physics A range of electromagnetic wavelengths for which a medium (especially the atmosphere) is transparent. Example sentencesExamples All of these windows are in infrared wavelengths, and they are narrow, like the gaps between the slats of a fence. A series of overlapping windows representing the full range of sequence divergence were defined. 6Strips of metal foil or metal filings dispersed in the air to obstruct radar detection. Phrases go out (of) the window informal (of a plan or pattern or behavior) no longer exist; disappear. Example sentencesExamples I'd pick up drugs straight away and my plans went out of the window. My game plan went out of the window within a few minutes as it was so cold that my arms started to stiffen up and I had to change stroke every 50 to 100 yards. So the menu plan and the budget went out the window, and as there was only one night left we had to make some quick decisions. In the early stages, any plans about tactics went out the window. The first part of Mayo's plan has gone out the window. When she found herself back in lane one 20 minutes before the race all her plans went out the window. And if growth comes in sharply lower than Brown expects, all the parties' plans would go out of the window. All plans to save will go out the window if one parent is not around to bring in an income. However, that plan quickly went out of the window as Blake's smart pass and turn sent Healy away down the right. Eric then switched to his electric guitar, and from what I could make out, all set-list plans went out the window as he had to choose songs that would sound good played on an electric rather than an acoustic. window of opportunity A favorable opportunity for doing something that must be seized immediately if it is not to be missed. Example sentencesExamples Dave gets on the phone for a while, but then says they have a window of opportunity and must go. Camera in hand, motionless, I waited for the right moment, my window of opportunity. The Bills may have a one-year window of opportunity before they must rebuild an aging roster. I had missed the window of opportunity to get the jet in the best landing configuration. Alas, both men missed their windows of opportunity. Management, coaches and players view this season as a window of opportunity that must be seized. Too often restaurants that don't have a sommelier miss this window of opportunity. There is a unique window of opportunity to seize the advantages produced by the crisis. I call that the window of opportunity - these dollars that we're receiving. A window of opportunity was created for the national bourgeoisie in the underdeveloped countries. Synonyms chance, lucky chance, good time, golden opportunity, time, occasion, moment, favourable moment, favourable occasion, favourable time, right set of circumstances, appropriate moment, appropriate occasion, appropriate time, suitable moment, suitable occasion, suitable time, opportune moment, opportune occasion, opportune time, opening, option, window, window of opportunity, slot, turn, go, run, clear run, field day window of vulnerability An opportunity to attack something that is at risk (especially as a cold war claim that America's land-based missiles were easy targets for a Soviet first strike). Example sentencesExamples This will probably be a window of vulnerability until the human intelligence capabilities are fully rebuilt. Even with a window of vulnerability during the period of nuclear development the military option will not always be credible, for a variety of political reasons. If anti-virus vendors were able to reduce the window of vulnerability to three hours or less, mass-mailing viruses would have little if any impact. This kind of holistic defensive strategy adds a proactive dimension to firewall protection, and ensures that the effects of Zero Day attacks can be minimized by making the window of vulnerability as small as possible. That span - much of the first trimester - appears to be a special window of vulnerability for birth defects, Dr. Bell said, just as earlier research has suggested. Reagan was of course right about the window of vulnerability, and the Soviet Union collapsed just five years later. This expands the window of vulnerability wherein critical data is at risk during the rebuild process. That's the attitude that makes full disclosure the only viable way to reduce the window of vulnerability. The real window of vulnerability may be after the stress is over. Few if any of the paratroopers anxiously scanning the northern sky for the telltale dust columns of Iraqi armor advancing south knew that this window of vulnerability could have been avoided. windows of the soul Organs of sense, especially the eyes. Example sentencesExamples The only other male member of the cabin crew was a very appealing young lad by the name of Ian, with dark eyes there were true windows on the soul and some really kissable lips. Eyes, in Minority Report, are literally windows on the soul, and the soul is that which yearns for brand-name fulfillment. I can't remember who said it, but we have been told that the eyes are windows on the soul. I was staring into his pupils, the windows on the soul, but all I saw was blankness. Said to be the windows on the soul, your eyes are often the first thing people notice about you. Origin Middle English: from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr ‘wind’ + auga ‘eye’. noun.1 phr.
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