window
♦♦ win|dow /w'ɪndoʊ/ (windows)
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A window is a space in the wall of a building or in the side of a vehicle, which has glass in it so that light can come in and you can see out.
He stood at the window, moodily staring out...
The room felt very hot and she wondered why someone did not open a window...
...my car window.
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A window is a large piece of glass along the front of a shop, behind which some of the goods that the shop sells are displayed.
I stood for a few moments in front of the nearest shop window.
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A window is a glass-covered opening above a counter, for example in a bank, post office, railway station, or museum, which the person serving you sits behind.
The woman at the ticket window told me that the admission fee was $17.50.
4 [N-COUNT]
On a computer screen, a window is one of the work areas that the screen can be divided into. (COMPUTING)
5 [N-COUNT] usu sing
If you have a window in your diary for something, or if you can make a window for it, you are free at a particular time and can do it then.
Tell her I've got a window in my diary later on this week.
6
see also French window, picture window,
7 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you say that something such as a plan or a particular way of thinking or behaving has gone out of the window or has flown out of the window, you mean that it has disappeared completely.
By now all logic had gone out of the window...
8 [PHRASE] window inflects, oft PHR for n, PHR to-inf
If you say that there is a window of opportunity for something, you mean that there is an opportunity to do something but that this opportunity will only last for a short time and so it needs to be taken advantage of quickly. (JOURNALISM)
The king said there was now a window of opportunity for peace.bay win|dow (bay windows)
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A bay window is a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house.French win|dow (French windows)
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French windows are a pair of glass doors which you go through into a garden or onto a balcony.
= French doorpic|ture win|dow (picture windows)
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A picture window is a window containing one large sheet of glass, so that people have a good view of what is outside.rose win|dow (rose windows)
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A rose window is a large round stained glass window in a church.sash win|dow (sash windows)
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A sash window is a window which consists of two frames placed one above the other. The window can be opened by sliding one frame over the other.win|dow box (window boxes)
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A window box is a long narrow container on a shelf at the bottom of a window and is used for growing plants.win|dow frame (window frames)
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A window frame is a frame around the edges of a window, which glass is fixed into.win|dow seat (window seats)
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A window seat is a seat which is fixed to the wall underneath a window in a room.
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On a train, bus, or aeroplane, a window seat is a seat next to a window.win|dow shade (window shades)
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A window shade is a piece of stiff cloth or heavy paper that you can pull down over a window as a covering. (AM; in BRIT, use blind)
= shadewin|dow shop|ping
also window-shopping
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If you do some window shopping, you spend time looking at the goods in the windows of shops without intending to buy anything.
1 [N-COUNT]
A window is a space in the wall of a building or in the side of a vehicle, which has glass in it so that light can come in and you can see out.
He stood at the window, moodily staring out...
The room felt very hot and she wondered why someone did not open a window...
...my car window.
2 [N-COUNT]
A window is a large piece of glass along the front of a shop, behind which some of the goods that the shop sells are displayed.
I stood for a few moments in front of the nearest shop window.
3 [N-COUNT]
A window is a glass-covered opening above a counter, for example in a bank, post office, railway station, or museum, which the person serving you sits behind.
The woman at the ticket window told me that the admission fee was $17.50.
4 [N-COUNT]
On a computer screen, a window is one of the work areas that the screen can be divided into. (COMPUTING)
5 [N-COUNT] usu sing
If you have a window in your diary for something, or if you can make a window for it, you are free at a particular time and can do it then.
Tell her I've got a window in my diary later on this week.
6
see also French window, picture window,
7 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you say that something such as a plan or a particular way of thinking or behaving has gone out of the window or has flown out of the window, you mean that it has disappeared completely.
By now all logic had gone out of the window...
8 [PHRASE] window inflects, oft PHR for n, PHR to-inf
If you say that there is a window of opportunity for something, you mean that there is an opportunity to do something but that this opportunity will only last for a short time and so it needs to be taken advantage of quickly. (JOURNALISM)
The king said there was now a window of opportunity for peace.bay win|dow (bay windows)
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A bay window is a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house.French win|dow (French windows)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
French windows are a pair of glass doors which you go through into a garden or onto a balcony.
= French doorpic|ture win|dow (picture windows)
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A picture window is a window containing one large sheet of glass, so that people have a good view of what is outside.rose win|dow (rose windows)
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A rose window is a large round stained glass window in a church.sash win|dow (sash windows)
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A sash window is a window which consists of two frames placed one above the other. The window can be opened by sliding one frame over the other.win|dow box (window boxes)
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A window box is a long narrow container on a shelf at the bottom of a window and is used for growing plants.win|dow frame (window frames)
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A window frame is a frame around the edges of a window, which glass is fixed into.win|dow seat (window seats)
1 [N-COUNT]
A window seat is a seat which is fixed to the wall underneath a window in a room.
2 [N-COUNT]
On a train, bus, or aeroplane, a window seat is a seat next to a window.win|dow shade (window shades)
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A window shade is a piece of stiff cloth or heavy paper that you can pull down over a window as a covering. (AM; in BRIT, use blind)
= shadewin|dow shop|ping
also window-shopping
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If you do some window shopping, you spend time looking at the goods in the windows of shops without intending to buy anything.