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Sill vs Pane - What's the difference?

sill | pane |

As nouns the difference between sill and pane

is that sill is (architecture) (also window sill ) a horizontal slat which forms the base of a window or sill can be (uk) a young herring or sill can be the shaft or thill of a carriage while pane is bread.

sill

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sille, selle, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) (also window sill ) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
    • She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill .
  • (construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also spelled cill. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.
  • (geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.
  • * 1980 , U.S. Government Printing Office, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119
    • Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses;
  • A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
  • (anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
    • the nasal sill
    Usage notes
    Usually spelled cill when used in the context of canal or river engineering.
    Derived terms
    * mudsill * groundsill * window sill
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "sill")
    Related terms
    * lintel * plate sense
  • 13 (construction)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare sile.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A young herring.

    • Etymology 3

    Compare thill.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The shaft or thill of a carriage.

    • Anagrams

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    pane

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An individual sheet of glass in a window.
  • (computing, graphical user interface) A layer in the build-up of a GUI.
  • A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
  • A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
  • One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
  • (architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
    • An octagonal tower is said to have eight panes .
  • A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
  • One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
  • One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * window pane

    Anagrams

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