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sill

/sɪl/

Übersetzungen

sillsubstantiv

sills

Pl.

/sɪl/

appui de fenêtreArchitecture.

She placed the flower pot on the window sill to catch the sunlight.

Elle a placé le pot de fleurs sur l'appui de fenêtre pour capter la lumière du soleil.

filon-coucheGéologie.

Geologists identified a dolerite sill running parallel to the sandstone beds.

Les géologues ont identifié un filon-couche de dolérite parallèle aux couches de grès.

seuilConstruction.

The carpenter replaced the rotten sill to ensure the door would close properly.

Le menuisier a remplacé le seuil pourri afin que la porte se ferme correctement.

Zusätzliche Übersetzungen

seuilOcéanographie.

Synonyme

sillverb

silled

Präteritum

silled

Partizip Perfekt

silling

Gerundium

Rare, but attested: ‘to furnish with or build a sill’.

Zusätzliche Übersetzungen

munir d'un seuilRare, en construction.

Synonyme

fit out

furnish with a sill

silladjektiv

/sɪl/

Used attributively (e.g., "sill plate") to describe something related to or situated at a sill.

Zusätzliche Übersetzungen

de seuilTechnique, surtout en architecture.

Definitionen

sillsubstantiv

A horizontal piece that forms the base of a window.

She placed the flower pot on the window sill to catch the sunlight.

A horizontal structural member at the bottom of a door or window frame.

The carpenter replaced the rotten sill to ensure the door would close properly.

A shelf or slab of stone, wood, or metal at the foot of a window or doorway.

The cat often sits on the sill, watching the birds outside.

A tabular sheet of igneous rock intruded between older layers of rock.

Geologists identified a dolerite sill running parallel to the sandstone beds.

A submerged ridge of the seabed that restricts water flow between basins or channels.

The sill in the strait limits deep-water exchange between the two seas.

sillverb

To provide with or build a sill; to set on a sill.

The workers carefully silled the new window opening to ensure a level base.

silladjektiv

Situated at, relating to, or forming a sill (used before another noun).

The carpenters installed the sill plate before raising the wall studs.