window

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A window, viewed from inside.

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English windowe, windohe, windoge, from Old Norse vindauga (window, literally wind-eye", "wind-aperture", "wind-hole), equivalent to wind +‎ eye. Cognate with Scots wyndo, wyndok, winnock (window), Icelandic vindauga (window), Norwegian vindauga, vindu (window), Danish vindue (window). The “windows” in these times were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through.

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Wikipedia Wikipedia window (plural windows)

  1. An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
    • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 173:
      A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
  2. An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside.
  3. A period of time when something is available.
    launch window; window of opportunity
    I have a two-hour window when my wife's out of the house if you want to come round an fool about.
  4. (graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.

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window (third-person singular simple present windows, present participle windowing, simple past and past participle windowed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with windows.
  2. (transitive) To place at or in a window.
    Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see / Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down / His corrigible neck? — Shakespeare.

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