windowsill

«windowsill» in Mova's school dictionary: the flat shelf at the bottom of a window, inside or outside — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a windowsill, windowsills)

meaning for a pupil

A windowsill is the flat shelf at the bottom of a window, inside or outside. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life people put plants, ornaments or cups on the windowsill; in science you grow seeds on a sunny windowsill. In safety lessons, never climb or sit on a windowsill of an open upstairs window. Phrases: «on the windowsill», «a sunny windowsill».

examples

• The cat likes to sleep on the windowsill. tree →
• We grew bean plants on the classroom windowsill. tree →
• Mum left the pie on the windowsill to cool. tree →
• A bird landed on the windowsill. tree →
• Don't sit on the windowsill when the window is open. tree →
• There is dust on the windowsill. tree →
• Snow piled up on the outside windowsill. tree →

note

Countable. Also written «window sill» (two words) or just «sill». Safety: young children can fall from windows; keep furniture away from windows and never lean on the screen.

In the corpora

• Leave a glass of milk on a sunny windowsill and by evening it smells sour and has lumps in it.
• Never lean out of an upstairs window or sit on a windowsill, and keep furniture away from windows.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «windowsill» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.