Plural of sill
regular plural
The plural of sill is sills.
Forms of sill
| Singular | sill /sɪl/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | sills |
| Countable | countable |
Sills in a sentence
- The molten rock in the sills may have ignited vast reserves of shallowly buried natural gas, much like a match applied to a gas barbecue.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 55
- Door chowkats shall be with or without wooden sills as ordered.1963, Tarjit Singh, Practical Book on Sessional and Project Examinations, Specially for Civil Engineering Students. From the entry chowkat
- There are two center and two side sills, all four being fish-belly girders.1905 June 20, “Railroad News. […]”, in The Topeka State Journal, last edition, Topeka, Kan., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4. From the entry fish-belly girder
- Small bodies of mafic to ultramafic rocks occur as boudins or sills up to 7 km long within the gneiss.1994, A. Thomas, Nicholas Culshaw, Kenneth L. Currie, Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of the Lac Ghyvelde-Lac Long Area, Labrador and…. From the entry boudin
- Sills portrayed as a ditsy yet determined young woman, and Marie, the tomboylike heroine raised by a military regiment in Donizetti’s “Fille du Régiment.”2007 July 3, Anthony Tommasini, “Beverly Sills, All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78”, in New York Times. From the entry tomboylike
Meaning of sill
- noun A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
- noun A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
- noun A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
Questions about the plural of sill
- What is the plural of sill?
- The plural of sill is sills.
- Is sill countable?
- Sill is a countable noun.
Source and license
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