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English Dictionary: window	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
window n 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; "he could see them through a window in the trees" the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something; "the expanded window will give us time to catch the thieves"; "they had a window of less than an hour when an attack would have succeeded" a pane of glass in a window; "the ball shattered the window" Synonym(s): windowpane, window an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served; "he stuck his head in the window" (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Window \Win"dow\, n. [OE. windowe, windoge, Icel. vindauga window, properly, wind eye; akin to Dan. vindue. [?][?][?][?]. See {Wind}, n., and {Eye}.] 1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. I leaped from the window of the citadel. --Shak. Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow. --Milton. 2. (Arch.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. [R.] Till he has windows on his bread and butter. --King.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Window \Win"dow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Windowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Windowing}.] 1. To furnish with windows. 2. To place at or in a window. [R.] Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck? --Shak.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Window properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on the town wall (Josh. 2:15; 2 Cor. 11:33). The clouds are metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" (Gen. 7:11; Mal. 3:10). The word thus rendered in Isa. 54:12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun"= having a radiated appearance like the sun.