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windowed

windowed adjective: fitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour. Also the simple past and past participle of window.

Adjective

windowed (not comparable)

  1. Fitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour.
    • Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,
      That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
      How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
      Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you
      From seasons such as these?c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • You must have seen a strange windowed house near Hyde-Park, which is so built that no one can look out of any of the apartments […]1712, The Spectator, No. 276, Wednesday, January 16, 1712, Dublin: W. Wilson, 1778, Volume IV, p. 103
    Synonyms:
    fenestrated, glazed
  2. Occupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)
    • This game can be played both in windowed mode and in full-screen mode.

Also used as

windowed is also the simple past and past participle of window.

Synonyms of windowed

Antonyms

Origin of windowed

From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window + -ed.

Phrases with windowed

Questions about windowed

What does windowed mean?
Windowed means fitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour.
What part of speech is windowed?
Windowed is an adjective.

Words near windowed in the dictionary

  1. window-washers
  2. windowable
  3. windowbox
  4. windowboxes
  5. windowdress
  6. windowed
  7. windowed down
  8. windowed out
  9. windowed over
  10. windowed up
  11. windowframe

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