different between window vs unwindowed

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 Superseded Middle English fenestre, fenester (“window”) borrowed from Old French fenestre (“window”)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)

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, p.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; a shop window.
3. (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
4. A period of time when something is available.
5. 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.

6. (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.
7. A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
   • 1709, William King, Art of Cookery

     till he has windows on his bread and butter

8. (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
9. (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)

1. (transitive) To furnish with windows.
2. (transitive) To place at or in a window.

English

Etymology 1

un- +? windowed

Adjective

unwindowed (not comparable)

1. Without windows.
   • 1786, William Gilpin, Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, London: R. Blamire, Volume 2, Section 21, p. 125,^[1]

     The chambers unwindowed, and almost unroofed, fluttering with rags of ancient tapestry, are the haunt of daws, and pigeons; which burst out in clouds of dust, when the doors are opened […]

   • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995, Part Two, p. 169,^[2]

     They were pushed, with some courtesy shown in the light or token nature of the push, through a hatch into unwindowed darkness where a candle set on a black stone showed walls of ill-hewn blocks […]

Etymology 2

Verb

unwindowed

1. simple past tense and past participle of unwindow