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Window

noun

A framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air.

A transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened.

A transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material.

An opening that resembles a window in appearance or function.

The time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something. "They had a window of less than an hour when an attack would have succeeded"

A pane of glass in a window. Synonym: windowpane.

An opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served.

(computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen.

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"Window" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the dark, so that he could not be probably seen, he watched that one window of the chamber where the first appearance of the hideous vampyre had taken place, and which seemed ever since to be the special object of ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... how many details one may observe and remember, after a little practice. It is related of Houdin, the French conjurer, that he improved and developed his faculty of Attention and Memory by playing this game with a young relative. They would pass by a shop window, taking a hasty, attentive glance at its contents. Then they would go around the corner and compare notes. At first they could remember only a few prominent articles—that is, their Attention could ...

— A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka

... it her task to supply and arrange the flowers on the altar. He had amazed and wounded her—she declared—inexpressibly, and she could no longer remain at St. John's—for the present, at least. A significant addition. He dropped the letter, and sat staring out of the window . . . presently arousing himself, setting himself resolutely to the task ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... volley of stones from the apprentices behind the barricade. The leading rank of the column discharged their muskets, and rushed at the barricade; the watermen sprang to oppose them. At the sound of the first shot every window in the street opened, and a rain of bricks and heavy stones poured down on all sides upon the column, while at the same time dense masses flung themselves upon its flanks, from every lane leading into it. Confused and broken by the sudden onslaught in the narrow street, the column ...

— Friends, though divided - A Tale of the Civil War • G. A. Henty

... during the night and, finding the box near the door, had caught up the mantilla and escaped without being detected? Could she herself have dragged it into her bedroom, entangled in the folds of her skirt? Was it not near the window, or in her basket, or behind the ...

— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith

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