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Definition: Sill |
SillNoun1. Structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure. 2. (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A low transverse structure built in order to prevent bed erosion or raise the upstream water level. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The horizontal gate seating, made of wood, stone, concrete or metal at the invert of any opening or gap in a structure. Hence the expressions:gate sill, stoplog sill. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A submerged structure across a river to control the water level upstream. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In torrent training, a low barrier, generally of masonry, built across a gorge to check further deepening(by erosion)of its bed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | Horizontal structure member forming the bottom of a door frame of a furnace. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | See dike. (references) |
Mining | A. Applied in mining to flat-bedded strata of sandstone or similar hard rocks b. A concordant sheet of igneous rock lying nearly horizontal. A sill may become a dike or vice versa c. The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine d. Fireclay, used for making slate or sill pencils, Coal Measures. CF:stone sill e. See also:floor sill f. A submarine ridge or rise at a relatively shallow depth, separating a basin from another basin or from an adjacent sea and causing the basin to be partly closed, e.g., in the Straits of Gibraltar g. A ridge of bedrock or earth material at a shallow depth near the mouth of a fjord, separating the deep water of the fjord from the deep ocean water outside. Syn:threshold h. The upper limit of any variogram model that has such a limit, i.e., that tends to "level off" at large distances. The spherical, gaussian, exponential, and nugget models have sills. For the linear model,"sill/range" is used merely to define the slope. (references) |
| Strong timbers laid horizontally to support posts or other tunnel timbers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In geology, a sill is a tabular mass of igneous rock that has been intruded laterally between layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or ejectmenta, or even along the direction of the foliation in metamorphic rock. The term "sill" is synonymous with "intrusive sheet."
In architecture, a sill is the bottom edge of a window.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sill."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Support | Frame, framework; scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel, joist, travis, trave, corner stone, summer, transom; rung, round, step, sill; angle rafter, hip rafter; cantilever, modillion; crown post, king post; vertebra. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sill |
| English words defined with "sill": Batement light ♦ Cill ♦ doorsill, doorstep, drip, drip mold, drip mould ♦ Ground plate ♦ Intertie ♦ Mudsill ♦ Stool of a window ♦ threshold ♦ Weather strip, Window back, Window stool, windowsill. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sill": Bib or Bibcock ♦ clap-me-down, closed frame, composite sill ♦ DOOR-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ endplate, estomac ♦ hose bib, hose bibb, hose cock ♦ INSTALLER, METAL FLOORING ♦ kicking pieces ♦ multiple sill ♦ Parshall flume, Parshall measuring flume ♦ set of timber, sill cock, Sill Plate ♦ vertical crater retreat ♦ washbox center sill, washbox discharge sill, washbox feed sill, whin float, windowback. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sill" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (herring, pickled herring), Welsh (syllable). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Horace G. Conerly Receiving award after serving as liaison to Army Artillery at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Measured drawing delineated by Frank R. Leslie, July 1938. (Reproduction Number: HABS, MO,97-SAIGEN,6- Sheet 5 of 13) The Bolduc House, now a museum, is one of a few remaining French Colonial buildings in the upper Mississippi Valley. As described in the HABS written historical data pages, it is constructed of poteaux sur sole, vertical posts set on a sill, with the interstices filled with bouzillage, sticks covered with a mud and straw mixture. In addition to its construction, the large overhanging eaves and steep roof are distinct characteristics of the style. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. Army Base Hospital, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. : Nurse adjusting a parachute before a flight. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Six destroyers docked at one time in the Yard's concrete Dry Dock # 2, during the 1920s. These ships are all members of Destroyer Division 36. The three in front are (from left to right): USS Farenholt (DD-332), USS Sumner (DD-333) and USS Hull (DD-330). The drydock's dimensions, as given on the photograph, are 740 feet in length and 120 feet in width, with 30 feet of water over the sill. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Sill chain and morticer, Iron Mountain, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1943. 155 mm. howitzer. The 155 mm. howitzer, firing on the Fort Sill, Oklahoma artillery range, provides a mass of heavy, high-angle firepower. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two women conversing, one seated on window sill stitching cloth, the other seated by spinning wheel with a distaff in one hand. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Ulrike Meinhof" looking out of a window with the word "Landesbank" written on it and a cup with a woman's head on the window sill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hair bouble" by Jocelyn Ng Commentary: "Hair bouble on my window sill." | "Dead Moth .. eww" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "Found this guy on my window sill & thought it would make for an interesting pic.." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Sterling W. Sill | Nobody else can do the work God has marked out for you. |
| We were born to prepare to live, and we live to prepare to die. | |
| Everyone is like a moon which always has a dark side and a light side. | |
| You've first got to have faith in yourself before you can do anything. | |
| The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness. | |
| Earth is filled with Heaven and on every foot may shine the glory of the burning bush. But only he who sees takes off his shoes. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Bruno was still standing at the window, with his elbows on the sill. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A maid in a white cap and apron was watering a box of plants on a sill which shone like a slab of limestone in the warm glare |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Soft fingers began to tap the sill of the car window, and hard fingers tightened on the restless drawing sticks |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bangladesh | The Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB), under the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, had a monopoly on Bangladesh's telecommunications sector until 1989. Although BTTB sill cominates fixed line networks, there are seven private operators which provide telecommunications services. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sill" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sill" is used about 243 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 243 | 19,167 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sill" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sill | Last name | 1,000 | 8,882 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "sill": Fort Sill ♦ Ground sill ♦ mud sill ♦ sill cock ♦ sill course ♦ sill plate ♦ Walton's rising sill gate ♦ window sill. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sill": window-sill. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prag (eve, groundsel, threshold, verge), pezul (rest, support), pervaz. (various references) | |
Arabic | حافة الشباك, عتبة الباب (step), عتبة (threshold). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стъпало (foot, metatarsus, rung, running board, shoulder, stage, stave, step, tread), силов поток, разширен перваз, напречна греда (arm, binder, bolster, crossbar, crossbeam, jig, joist, rail, stretcher, summer-tree, tie beam, transom), праг (doorstep, drop, groundsel, shoot, step, threshold), подлога (bedpan, urinal), подпрозоречна дъска (stool, window ledge, window sill), перваз (baseboard, border, edge, ledge, skirt, skirting, skirting board, trim, washboard), пластова интрузия, интрузивен пласт, долнище на въглищен праг. (various references) | |
Chinese | 基石 (cornerstone). (various references) | |
Czech | práh (threshold). (various references) | |
Danish | svelle (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, skid, sleeper, tie), sæde (seat), vold (bank, ground sill), tærskel (threshold), portbund (paving, port bottom, port floor, port paving, port sill), laggang (intrusive sheet), daemning (barrage, dyke, embankment, ground sill, jetty), dørtrin (threshold). (various references) | |
Dutch | drempel (threshold), dorpel (threshold). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sojlo (threshold). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gátt (threshold). (various references) | |
Farsi | پایه (Base, Basis, Bedrock, Buttress, Cantilever, Column, Degree, Ground, Groundwork, Leg, Mark, Measure, Mount, Outrigger, Phase, Pillar, Prop, Root, Stage, Stalk, Stanchion, Status, Stock, Stratum), گسله بستری , تیرپایه (Skid), استانه در (Doorstep), دارای استانه یاپایه نمودن . (various references) | |
Finnish | settikynnys, poltinpohja (paving, port bottom, port floor, port paving, port sill), poltinpenkki (paving, port bottom, port floor, port paving, port sill), pohjapato, luukun kynnys, kynnys (threshold). (various references) | |
French | seuil (sill plate). (various references) | |
German | Schwelle (barrier, ramp, sleeper, threshold, tie, treshold). (various references) | |
Greek | κατώφλιο (threshold), κατώφλι (door step, threshhold, threshold), ρείθρο καμίνου (sill plate), έδραση (bearer plates, bearing, bearing brass, bearing lining, bearing shell, bolster, bush, bushing, cradle, journal bearing, sleeve), στέψη φράγματος (crest, ground sill, top), περβάζι (ledge), πεζούλι (mantel, mantelpiece), πάτωμα καυστήρα (paving, port bottom, port floor, port paving, port sill). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפתן (threshold), אדן החלון (ledge, windowsill), סף (brink, threshold). (various references) | |
Hungarian | küszöb (doorsill, doorstep, door-step, ground-sill, threshold). (various references) | |
Italian | soglia (threshold). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 窓越しに (over the window sill). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まどごしに (over the window sill). (various references) | |
Manx | leac uinnag (window ledge, window sill), jeayst (balk, balk timber, joist, sleeper). (various references) | |
Papiamen | drèmpi (threshold). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | soleira (door-frame, groundsel, groundsill, mud sill, threshold), peitoril (breastwork, groundsel, groundsill, mud sill, window-sill), limiar (groundsel, groundsill, mud sill, threshold). (various references) | |
Romanian | prag (apron, crest, limit, rapid, step, threshold, verge), pervaz (casing, cheek, window sill), barã de susţinere. (various references) | |
Russian | подоконник (window sill, windowsill, window-sill). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prag (doorstep, groundsill, prague, threshold). (various references) | |
Spanish | umbral (threshold). (various references) | |
Swedish | tröskel (doorstep, threshold, treshhold), fönsterbräde (ledge, windowsill). (various references) | |
Thai | ฐานกำแพง, ธรณีประตูหรือหน้าต่าง. (various references) | |
Turkish | taban (base, basement, bedrock, floor, fundament, girder, sole, substratum, substructure), pervaz (cincture, cornice, cyma, dressing, fringe, jamb, molding, moulding, reveal, rib, ribbon, shelf, Wale, wheal), kaya yatağına paralel volkanik kaya tabakası, kapı eşiği, eşik (brink, door, door stone, doorstep, limen, threshold, verge). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зовнішнє підвіконня, поріг (altar, apron, cataract, door step, riffle, sole, threshold). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngưỡng cửa (doorstep). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | limen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sill": sillabub, sillabubs, siller, sillers, sillibub, sillibubs, sillier, sillies, silliest, sillily, sillimanite, sillimanites, silliness, sillinesses, sills, silly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sill": doorsill, mudsill, windowsill. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sill": disillusion, disillusioned, disillusioning, disillusionment, disillusionments, disillusions, doorsills, fusillade, fusillades, fusilli, fusillis, mudsills, pusillanimities, pusillanimity, pusillanimous, pusillanimously, salsilla, salsillas, sensilla, sensillae, sensillum, tonsillar, tonsillectomies, tonsillectomy, tonsillitis, tonsillitises, transilluminate, transilluminated, transilluminates, transilluminating, transillumination, transilluminations, transilluminator, transilluminators, windowsills. (additional references) | |
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"Sill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Csil, esil, esili, esl, Gsell, isl, qill, salel, salil, sall, scioll, sel, selil, sella, selli, shl, sialyl, sicl, siel, siily, sikl, sil, Sila, Silali, sild, Silf, silg, silil, silj, silla, sille, silm, silol, silq, siml, siol, sl, sli, soll, solla, sqill, svill, syl, syll, syllo, Zihl, zil, zill. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sill" (pronounced si"l) |
| 2 | -i" l | bill, Brazil, brill, chill, dill, distil, distill, drill, Fil, fill, frill, fulfill, Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, Hill, ill, spill, still, swill, instill, Jill, kill, krill, Mil, mill, Mille, nil, nill, pill, prill, quill, refill, rill, Shill, shrill, skill, thill, thrill, til, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will, zill. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ills. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-l-s" | |
-1 letter: ill, lis. | |
-2 letters: is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-l-s" | |
+1 letter: bills, dills, fills, gills, hills, jills, kills, lilts, lisle, mills, nills, pills, rills, shill, sills, silly, skill, slily, spill, still, swill, tills, vills, wills, yills, zills. | |
+2 letters: allies, brills, chills, cullis, drills, filles, fillos, flails, follis, frills, grills, hillos, idylls, illest, krills, libels, lilacs, lilies, lisles, listel, maills, milles, prills, quills, rilles, scilla, shills, shrill, siller, skills, slimly, spills, squill, stills, stilly, swills, tallis, thills, trills, twills, villas, villus. | |
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