sill
/sɪl/
sill noun: a breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
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Noun (1)
sill (plural sills)
- A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
- She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
- 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.
- A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses […].1980, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119, U.S. Government Printing Office
- 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
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
- the nasal sill
- The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
Noun (2)
sill (plural sills)
- A young herring.
Noun (3)
sill (plural sills)
Adjective
sill (comparative more sill, superlative most sill)
Proper noun capitalized: Sill
Sill (plural Sills)
- A surname.
sill meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
sill in Tamil
- பலகணிப்படிக்கல், வாயிற்படிக்கட்டை, கீழி, நிலைப்படி, வெட்டு வாயில் உதடு, நுழைந்த படுவம்
sill in Marathi
- base of a window
- तळसरी taḷasrī
sill in Bengali
- জানালার নিচের দেয়াল
sill in Malayalam
- ജന്നൽപ്പടി, കതകുകളുടെ മുകൾപ്പടി, കട്ടിളപ്പടി, അടിത്തറ
More languagesFewer languages
- sill in Kannada
- ಅಡಿಗಟ್ಟು
- sill in Punjabi
- ਸਿੱਲ
- sill in Gujarati
- સિલ્લ, સિલ
- sill in Odia
- ସିଲ୍ଲ୍
- sill in Nepali
- सिल्ल
Examples of sill in a sentence
- You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk.
- The framers toed the irregular pieces into the sill.
- Sill waved for an armored vehicle to come up from the rear.
Forms of sill
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sills |
| alternative form | cill |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more sill |
| superlative | most sill |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sills |
Origin of sill
From Middle English sille, selle, sülle, from Old English syll, syl (“sill, threshold, foundation, base, basis”), from Proto-Germanic *sulī (“bar, sill”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Cognate with Scots sil, sill (“balk, beam, floor, sill”), Dutch zulle (“sill”), Low German Sull, Sülle (“threshold, ramp, sill”), German Süll, Sülle (“threshold, sill”), Danish syld (“base of a framework building”), Swedish syll (“joist, cross-tie”), Norwegian syll, Icelandic syll, sylla (“sill”). Related also to German Schwelle ( > Danish svelle), Old Norse svill, Latin silva (“wood, forest”), Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē).
Compare sile.
Compare thill.
Words formed from sill
Phrases with sill
Words that rhyme with sill
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- chill
- drill
- Seville
- will
- skill
- still
- frill
- mil
- swill
- fulfill
- goodwill
- till
- until
- brazil
- downhill
- prill
- quadrille
- shill
- shrill
- thrill
- Chapel Hill
- jill
- McGill
- nill
- squill
- trill
- uphill
- Walton-on-the-Hill
- Baskerville
- dill
- grille
- he'll
- instill
- Ithkuil
- krill
- manille
- nil
- phil
- purple pill
- refill
- remill
- rill
- thill
- twill
- vill
- vril
- 'til
- 'twill
Questions about sill
- What does sill mean?
- Sill means a breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
- What is sill in Tamil?
- Sill in Tamil is பலகணிப்படிக்கல், வாயிற்படிக்கட்டை, கீழி. See Sill meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sill?
- Sill can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sill?
- Sill is pronounced /sɪl/.
- What is the plural of sill?
- The plural of sill is sills.
Words near sill in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sill (page history and authors); Sill (page history and authors); sill (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sill (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sill (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sill (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sill (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sill (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sill (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sill (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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