different between casement vs mullion

English

Noun

casement (plural casements)

1. A window sash that is hinged on the side.

   • For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.

2. A window having such sashes; a casement window.^Wp
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

     Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.

   • 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night

     The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

3. (military) Occasionally seen as a usage error due to the similarity of the words: A casemate.

Hyponyms

• (window): French casement

Translations

References

• casement at OneLook Dictionary Search
• casement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• casement windows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• can't seem, cæments, menacest

English

Etymology

Corruption of munnion, French moignon (“stump of an amputated limb, stump”).

Noun

mullion (plural mullions)

1. A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen.

   Coordinate term: transom

   Hypernyms: glazing bar, muntin

Derived terms

• mullioned

Translations

Verb

mullion (third-person singular simple present mullions, present participle mullioning, simple past and past participle mullioned)

1. (transitive) To shape into divisions by means of mullions.

Anagrams

• luminol

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Alternative forms

• maliyan

Noun

mullion

1. wedge-tailed eagle, eaglehawk