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window
English
Etymology
From Middle English windowe, windohe, windoge, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye", "wind-aperture", "wind-hole”), i.e. ("air-hole"), equivalent to wind +? eye. Cognate with Scots wyndo, wyndok, winnock (“window”), Faroese vindeyga (“window”), Norwegian Nynorsk vindauga, Norwegian Bokmål vindu (“window”), Danish vindue (“window”), Swedish vindöga (“window”), Elfdalian windog and older German Windauge. The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?). Superseded Middle English fenestre, fenester (“window”) borrowed from Old French fenestre (“window”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w?nd??/
- (US) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA(key): /?w?ndo?/, [?w???o?]
- (some accents) enPR: w?n?d?, IPA(key): /?w?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd??
- Hyphenation: win?dow
Noun
window (countable and uncountable, plural windows)
- 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, p.173:
- A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
- 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, p.173:
- An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
- (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
- A period of time when something is available.
- A restricted range.
- 2015, Patrick R. Nicolas, Scala for Machine Learning (page 109)
- In this case, a band-pass filter using a range or window of frequencies is appropriate to isolate the frequency or the group of frequencies that characterize a specific cycle.
- 2015, Patrick R. Nicolas, Scala for Machine Learning (page 109)
- (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.
- A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
- 1709, William King, Art of Cookery
- till he has windows on his bread and butter
- 1709, William King, Art of Cookery
- (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
- (military, historical, uncountable) Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)
Coordinate terms
- door
Derived terms
Related terms
- wind
Translations
Verb
window (third-person singular simple present windows, present participle windowing, simple past and past participle windowed)
- (transitive) To furnish with windows.
- (transitive) To place at or in a window.
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ladder
English
Alternative forms
- ledder (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English ladder, laddre, from Old English hl?der, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrij? (compare Scots ledder, North Frisian ladder, Saterland Frisian Laadere, West Frisian ljedder, Dutch ladder, leer, German Leiter), from Proto-Indo-European *?leytro (compare Old Irish clithar (“hedge”), Umbrian ???????????????????????????? (kletram, “stretcher”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (“to lean”). See lean, which is related to lid.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?lad?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?læd?/, [?læ??]
- Homophone: latter (in accents with flapping)
- Rhymes: -æd?(r)
- Hyphenation: lad?der
Noun
ladder (plural ladders)
- A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as steps).
- (figuratively) A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.
- (figuratively) The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
- (chiefly Britain) A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a run.
- In the game of go, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
Usage notes
For stockings touted as resistant to ladders (unraveling), the phrase “ladder resist” is used in the UK. The American equivalent is “run resistant”.
Synonyms
- (frame for ascent and descent): stepladder
- (unravelled fabric): run (primarily US)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
ladder (third-person singular simple present ladders, present participle laddering, simple past and past participle laddered)
- To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
- (chiefly firefighting) To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
- Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread.
- 1993, Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-177373-1; republished as Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, June 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-77681-9, page 254:
- He slid his hand up her skirt and murmured in her ear. / "Robert, I've just got dressed. Stop it." […] / He laddered her stocking and smudged her lipstick, but she had time to repair the damage before they went out.
- 1993, Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-177373-1; republished as Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, June 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-77681-9, page 254:
- (Britain, naval slang) To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
- 2007, Peter Smith, Naval Warfare in the English Channel: 1939-1945 (page 134)
- For eighteen minutes Revenge pounded the dockyard area at an average range of 15,700 yards, spreading for line and laddering for range to a prearranged plan to cover the whole target area.
- 2014, Norman Friedman, Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns & Gunnery
- Laddering made it possible to get a few hits on a fast-moving, often manoeuvring, target.
- 2007, Peter Smith, Naval Warfare in the English Channel: 1939-1945 (page 134)
Anagrams
- Aldred, larded, raddle
Dutch
Alternative forms
- leeder (obsolete)
- leer (dialectal, dated)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ladere, from Old Frisian hladder, hledder, hleder, hl?rde, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrij?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?.d?r/
- Hyphenation: lad?der
- Rhymes: -?d?r
Noun
ladder f (plural ladders, diminutive laddertje n)
- A ladder.
- (clothing) A ladder, a run (length of unravelled fabric).
Meronyms
- sport
Derived terms
- toonladder
- touwladder
Descendants
- Afrikaans: leer
- ? Sotho: lere
- ? Xhosa: ileli
Middle English
Alternative forms
- (Early ME) læddræ, leaddre, læddre
- laddre, ladre, leddre, ledder, laddir, lheddre, leddyr
Etymology
From Old English hl?der, hlædder, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrij?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lad?r/, /?l?d?r/, /?l??d?r/
Noun
ladder (plural laddres or laddren)
- ladder (set of portable steps):
- (figuratively, religion) A symbolisation of the link from the heavens to the world.
- (figuratively, rare) A method or way of achievement consisting of multiple steps.
- (rare) A frame for a cart.
Descendants
- English: ladder
- Scots: ledder
References
- “ladder(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.
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