foundation sill

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• Sill — (s[i^]l), n. [OE. sille, sylle, AS. syl, syll; akin to G. schwelle, OHG. swelli, Icel. syll, svill, Sw. syll, Dan. syld, Goth. gasuljan to lay a foundation, to found.] The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Sill course — Sill Sill (s[i^]l), n. [OE. sille, sylle, AS. syl, syll; akin to G. schwelle, OHG. swelli, Icel. syll, svill, Sw. syll, Dan. syld, Goth. gasuljan to lay a foundation, to found.] The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sill — like, adj. /sil/, n. 1. a horizontal timber, block, or the like serving as a foundation of a wall, house, etc. 2. the horizontal piece or member beneath a window, door, or other opening. See diag. under double hung. 3. Geol. a tabular body of… …   Universalium

• sill — O.E. syll beam, large timber serving as a foundation of a wall, from P.Gmc. *suljo (Cf. O.N. svill framework of a building, M.L.G. sull, O.H.G. swelli, Ger. Schwelle sill ), perhaps from PIE root *swel post, board (Cf. Gk. selma beam ). Meaning …   Etymology dictionary

• Sill plate — A sill plate or sole plate in construction and architecture is the bottom horizontal member of a wall or building to which vertical members are attached. Sill plates are usually composed of lumber. It usually comes in sizes of 2×4, 2×6, 2×8, and… …   Wikipedia

• Sill, Anna Peck — ▪ American educator born Aug. 9, 1816, Burlington, N.Y., U.S. died June 18, 1889, Rockford, Ill.       American educator who opened and administered a girls school that would become Rockford College.       Sill began teaching school at the age of …   Universalium

• sill — Synonyms and related words: base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, doorsill, doorstone, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, ground, grounds, groundsel, groundwork, hardpan, mudsill, pavement,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• sill — [OE] Sill originally denoted the ‘foundation of a wall’. Not until the 15th century was it used for the ‘base of a window frame’. It is related to German schwelle ‘threshold’ and possibly also to English sole ‘underside of the foot’ …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• sill — [OE] Sill originally denoted the ‘foundation of a wall’. Not until the 15th century was it used for the ‘base of a window frame’. It is related to German schwelle ‘threshold’ and possibly also to English sole ‘underside of the foot’ …   Word origins

• foundation — Synonyms and related words: A, a priori principle, affirmation, alpha, anchorage, appanage, apriorism, arrangement, assertion, assumed position, assumption, axiom, basal, base, baseboard, basement, basic, basic training, basis, bearing wall, bed …   Moby Thesaurus

• sill — (also chiefly Building cill) noun 1》 a shelf or slab of stone, wood, or metal at the foot of a window or doorway.     ↘a strong horizontal member at the base of any structure, e.g. in the frame of a motor or rail vehicle. 2》 Geology a tabular… …   English new terms dictionary