sash
/sæʃ/
sash noun: a piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist. Also the alternative spelling of shash.
Noun (1)
sash (plural sashes)
- A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
- Synonyms:
- belt, cummerbund, obi, waistband
- A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
Verb (1)
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
- To adorn with a sash.
- […] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of...1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46
Noun (2)
sash (plural sashes)
- The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
- Near-synonym: casement
- One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and vvrites upon the Glaſs of the Saſh in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone.1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page...
- Synonyms:
- casement
- A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- Synonyms:
- splitter
- The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
- A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.
- Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […]1915 April, W. A. Hamor, “Description of the New Building of the Mellon Institute”, in The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, page 334
- […] it [fume hood] also affords an excellent physical barrier on all four sides of a reacting system when the sash is pulled down.2008, Kenneth L. Williamson, Katherine M. Masters, Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments, published 2015, →ISBN, page 35
Verb (2)
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
- To furnish with a sash.
- The old Bow-windows he will have preserv'd, but will not have them sash’d,1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 2
Also used as
sash is also the alternative spelling of shash.
sash meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sash in Hindi
- सैश
sash in Tamil
- சாஷ், சஷ், சாஷ் செய்ய
sash in Marathi
- सॅश
sash in Urdu
- ساش, سیش کرنا, ساش کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
- sash in Bengali
- স্যাশ
- sash in Telugu
- సాష్, సష్
- sash in Malayalam
- സാഷ്
- sash in Kannada
- ಸ್ಯಾಶ್
- sash in Punjabi
- ਸੈਸ਼, ਸਸ਼, ਸੈਸ਼ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- sash in Gujarati
- સૅશ, સશ્
- sash in Odia
- ସାଶ୍, ସଶ୍, ସ୍ଯ଼ାଶ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
- sash in Nepali
- स्याश, स्यास गर्न, स्याश गर्न
- sash in Arabic
- وِشَاح wišāḥ
- sash in Malay
- sawat
- sash in Persian
- بروفه borufe
Examples of sash in a sentence
- A centerhung sash window rotates horizontally on hinge pins at its center. When open, the top part tilts into the room and to bottom part tilts outside.
- His parents had the master bedroom, with a big sash window that overlooked the high street.
- The advantages of sash belts are endless.
Synonyms of sash
Forms of sash
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sashes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sashes |
| present participle | sashing |
| past participle | sashed |
| past | sashed |
Origin of sash
From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
From sashes, from metathesis of French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.
Words formed from sash
Phrases with sash
Words that rhyme with sash
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hash
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gash
- gnash
- goulash
- pash
- rehash
- stash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- potash
- slapdash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
- pearlash
Questions about sash
- What does sash mean?
- Sash means a piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
- What is sash in Hindi?
- Sash in Hindi is सैश. See Sash meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sash?
- Sash can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sash?
- Sash is pronounced /sæʃ/.
- What is the plural of sash?
- The plural of sash is sashes.
Words near sash in the dictionary
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