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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sill /sɪl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Buildinga flat, horizontal piece like a ledge beneath a window, door, or other opening.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sill (sil),USA pronunciation n. - Buildinga horizontal timber, block, or the like serving as a foundation of a wall, house, etc.
- Buildingthe horizontal piece or member beneath a window, door, or other opening. See diag. under double-hung.
- Geologya tabular body of intrusive igneous rock, ordinarily between beds of sedimentary rocks or layers of volcanic ejecta.
- bef. 900; Middle English sille, Old English syl, sylle; cognate with Low German süll, Old Norse syll; akin to German Schwelle sill
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sill /sɪl/ n - a shelf at the bottom of a window inside a room
- a horizontal piece along the outside lower member of a window, that throws water clear of the wall below
- the lower horizontal member of a window or door frame
- a continuous horizontal member placed on top of a foundation wall in order to carry a timber framework
- a flat usually horizontal mass of igneous rock, situated between two layers of older sedimentary rock, that was formed by an intrusion of magma
Etymology: Old English syll; related to Old Norse svill sill, Icelandic svoli tree trunk, Old High German swella sill, Latin solum ground |