sill
See also: Sill
English edit
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2: Lintel
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English sille, selle, sülle, from Old English syll, syl (“sill, threshold, foundation, base, basis”), from Proto-Germanic *sulī (“bar, sill”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).
Cognate with Scots sil, sill (“balk, beam, floor, sill”), Dutch zulle (“sill”), Low German Sull, Sülle (“threshold, ramp, sill”), German Süll, Sülle (“threshold, sill”), Danish syld (“base of a framework building”), Swedish syll (“joist, cross-tie”), Norwegian syll, Icelandic syll, sylla (“sill”). Related also to German Schwelle ( > Danish svelle), Old Norse svill, Latin silva (“wood, forest”), Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē).
Noun edit
sill (plural sills)
- (architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
- She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
- (construction) A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
- (geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- 1980, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119, U.S. Government Printing Office:
- Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses […] .
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 55::
- The molten rock in the sills may have ignited vast reserves of shallowly buried natural gas, much like a match applied to a gas barbecue.
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- (anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
- the nasal sill
- (military, historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
Usage notes edit
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:sill.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
base of a window
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horizontal member bearing the upright portion of a frame
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layer of igneous rock
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threshold or brink across the bottom of the upper canal lock
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Etymology 2 edit
Compare sile.
Noun edit
sill (plural sills)
Etymology 3 edit
Compare thill.
Noun edit
sill (plural sills)
Etymology 4 edit
Short for silly.
Adjective edit
sill (comparative more sill, superlative most sill)
References edit
- Harris, Cyril M.. Illustrated dictionary of historic architecture. New York: Dover Publications, 1983, 1977. Groundsill →ISBN
Anagrams edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French sill, from English sill.
Noun edit
sill n (uncountable)
Declension edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse síld, from Proto-Germanic *sīlą.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sill c
Usage notes edit
- Herring from the Atlantic on Sweden's west coast is called sill. The subspecies fished from the Baltic Sea on Sweden's east coast is called strömming.
Declension edit
| Declension of sill | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | sill | sillen | sillar | sillarna |
| Genitive | sills | sillens | sillars | sillarnas |
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
sill f (plural sillau or silloedd, not mutable)
- Alternative form of sillaf (“syllable”)
Further reading edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sill”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies