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Window

noun

A framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air.

A transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened.

A transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material.

An opening that resembles a window in appearance or function.

The time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something. "They had a window of less than an hour when an attack would have succeeded"

A pane of glass in a window. Synonym: windowpane.

An opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served.

(computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen.

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"Window" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bruce had just finished an editorial on Doctor West's trial, and was busily thumping out an editorial on the local political situation—the Republican and Democratic conventions were both but a few days off—when, lifting his scowling gaze to his window while searching for the particular word he needed, he saw Katherine passing along the sidewalk across the street. Her face was fresh, her step springy; hers was any but a downcast figure. Forgetting his editorial, he watched her turn the corner of the Square and go up ...

— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott

... the Wesleyan Conference a House of Rest—a sweet little house, looking over the fields toward the sunset—where tired ministers might come and live at ease for a time to regain health and strength; and in Sedgehill Church she put up a beautiful east window to the memory of Maria Farringdon, and for a sign-post to all such pilgrims as were in need of one, as the east window in St. Peter's had once been a sign-post to herself showing her the way ...

— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

... happy. I feel that I have only to stretch out my hand and touch you ... and then I shall be depressed no more. This is not a letter. It has no beginning and it will have no end. It's an outpouring. To-night is very beautiful. I went up to my bedroom a few moments ago, and sat at the window looking over Stephen's Green. There was a blue mist hanging over the trees, and the sky was full of light and colour. I do not believe there is any place in the world where one sees so much of the sky as in Dublin. It reaches up and ...

— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

... the window. Billy had grown tired of waiting and gone off without her. She fancied she could see his sturdy figure on the further slope. Her eyes took in the whole lovely scene, and suddenly, effervescently, her spirits began to rise. The inherent gaiety of her bubbled to ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

... for, unable to stay away from the house where he had left his heart, he leaped the wall of an orchard which was at the back of Juliet's house. Here he had not been long, ruminating on his new love, when Juliet appeared above at a window, through which her exceeding beauty seemed to break like the light of the sun in the east; and the moon, which shone in the orchard with a faint light, appeared to Romeo as if sick and pale with grief at the superior luster of this new sun. And she leaning ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

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