sill

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n. 基石, 槛, 窗台, 岩床, 海底山脊, 梁

发音

其它 /sɪl/

词形变化

sills 复数 more sill 比较级 most sill 最高级

别名

cill

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.

    建筑

    She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.

  2. 2.

    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.

    商务 建筑 工程
  3. 3.

    A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.

    地质
  4. 4.

    A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

  5. 5.

    A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.

    医学

    the nasal sill

  6. 6.

    The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.

    历史 政治 军事
  7. 1.

    A young herring.

    英国
  8. 1.

    The shaft or thill of a carriage.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Silly.

    罕用 俚语

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

rock stone

下位词 4

doorstep threshold windowsill doorsill

相关短语

window sill trip sill

词源

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).

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