windshield

English

The windshield (sense 1) of a 1959 Edsel Corsair.

A cross-section of an armor-piercing artillery shell, with the windshield (sense 3) in blue.

Etymology

wind +‎ shield

Pronunciation

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Noun

windshield (plural windshields)

1. (Canada, US) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.

   The freezing rain covered our windshield with ice and we couldn't see a thing.

2. A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.
3. (military) A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.

Synonyms

• (UK, Australian English) windscreen

Derived terms

• windshield phenomenon
• windshield time

 

Related terms

• windshield wiper

Translations

screen located in front of a vehicle to protect from wind and weather

• Apache:

  Western Apache: bitaʼ

• Arabic: زُجَاج السَيَّارَة الأَمَامِيّ (zujāj as-sayyāra(t) al-ʔamāmiyy)
• Armenian: դիմապակի (hy) (dimapaki), հողմապակի (hy) (hoġmapaki)
• Basque: haizetako
• Bulgarian: пре́дно стъкло́ n (prédno stǎkló)
• Catalan: parabrisa m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擋風玻璃／挡风玻璃 (zh) (dǎngfēng bōli), 風擋／风挡 (zh) (fēngdǎng)

• Cornish: skew wyns f
• Czech: přední sklo n
• Danish: forrude (da) c
• Dutch: voorruit (nl)
• Esperanto: ventoŝirmilo, antaŭa glaco
• Estonian: tuuleklaas
• Faroese: forrútur m, framrútur m
• Finnish: tuulilasi (fi)
• French: pare-brise (fr) m, parebrise (fr) m
• Galician: parabrisas m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Windschutzscheibe (de) f
• Greek: παρμπρίζ (el) n (parmpríz)
• Hebrew: מגן רוח m (magén rúakh), שמשה (he) f (shimshá)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szélvédő (hu)
• Icelandic: framrúða f
• Ido: paravento (io)
• Italian: parabrezza (it) m
• Japanese: フロントガラス (furontogurasu)
• Khmer: កញ្ចក់បាំងខ្យល់ (kɑɑñcɑkbangkhyɑl)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ветробран m (vetrobran)
• Malay: cermin depan
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: ôsaine dé d'vant f
• Norwegian: frontrute f
• Occitan: parabrisa f
• Persian: شیشه‌ی جلو
• Polish: przednia szyba
• Portuguese: para-brisa (pt) m, para-brisas m
• Romanian: parbriz (ro) n, ferastră de față f
• Russian: ветрово́е стекло́ (ru) n (vetrovóje stekló), лобово́е стекло́ (ru) n (lobovóje stekló)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) ве̏тробра̄н m, (Ijekavian) вје̏тробра̄н m, шофершајбна f

  Roman: (Ekavian) vȅtrobrān (sh) m, (Ijekavian) vjȅtrobrān (sh) m, šoferšajbna f

• Spanish: parabrisas (es) m
• Swedish: vindruta (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ön cam
• Vietnamese: kính chắn gió
• Volapük: tavienvitür
• Welsh: sgrin wynt f

cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: tuulisuoja (fi)
• French: bonnette anti-vent f
• German: Windschutz m, Mikrofon-Windschutz m
• Portuguese: pára-brisas m
• Spanish: cortavientos (es) m

Verb

windshield (third-person singular simple present windshields, present participle windshielding, simple past and past participle windshielded)

1. (transitive) To install a windshield on.