sill

UK
/sɪl/
US
/sɪl/

Übersetzungen

sillsubstantiv
sills
Pl.
UK
/sɪl/
US
/sɪl/
She placed the flower pot on the windowsill.
Она поставила цветочный горшок на подоконник.
He tripped over the door sill as he entered the room.
Он споткнулся о порог, когда входил в комнату.
Zusätzliche Übersetzungen
пороговая балка
sillverb
silled
Präteritum
silled
Partizip Perfekt
silling
Gerundium
Rare, but attested: ‘to furnish with or build a sill’.
Synonyme
fit out
furnish with a sill
silladjektiv
UK
/sɪl/
US
/sɪl/
Used attributively (e.g., "sill plate") to describe something related to or situated at a sill.

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.