different between windowed vs window

English

Etymology

From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window +? -ed.

Adjective

windowed (not comparable)

1. Fitted with windows (often of a particular kind).
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene 4,^[1]

     Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,

     That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,

     How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,

     Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you

     From seasons such as these?

   • 1712, The Spectator, No. 276, Wednesday, January 16, 1712, Dublin: W. Wilson, 1778, Volume IV, p. 103,^[2]

     You must have seen a strange windowed house near Hyde-Park, which is so built that no one can look out of any of the apartments […]

   • 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, Chapter 12,^[3]

     I need not say that my thoughts were chiefly with her as I leaned from the lattice, and let my eye roam, now over the walks and borders of the garden, now along the many-windowed front of the house which rose white beyond the masses of foliage.

   • 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, “Morning Glory” in The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, p. 81,^[4]

     Loud the happy children quire

     To the golden-windowed morn;

     While the lord of their desire

     Sleeps below the crimson thorn.

   • 1937, The Road to Oxiana, “Herat, 23 November,”^[5]

     The walls below are bare, but for a few glazed bricks and a peculiar three-windowed bay that reminds one of a villa in Clapham.

   • 2004, Sally B. Donnelly, “Over the Really Long Haul,” Time, 22 March, 2004,^[6]

     Once the plane was at cruising altitude I spent the first hour or so just getting used to the surroundings—exploring the stand-up bar Singapore Airlines created at the back of the coach section, ducking into one of the two windowed rest rooms or longing for the plush seats in business class.

   a bow-windowed room

2. (computing, graphical user interface) Occupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)

   This game can be played both in windowed mode and in full-screen mode.

Antonyms

• (fitted with windows): unwindowed, nonwindowed
• (occupying a graphical window): full screen, nonwindowed

Translations

Verb

windowed

1. simple past tense and past participle of 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)

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.