Window vs Wife - What's the difference?
window | wife |
An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
*1952 , , Building in England , p.173:
*:A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
(lb) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
A period of time when something is available.
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(lb) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
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*:till he has windows on his bread and butter
To furnish with windows.
To place at or in a window.
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
* (The Fisherman and His Wife)
* , chapter=10
, title= The female of a pair of mated animals.
As nouns the difference between window and wife
is that window is an opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle while wife is a married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.As a verb window
is to furnish with windows.window
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows , heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
Coordinate terms
* doorDerived terms
* bay window * bow window * cabinet window * casement window * Catherine-wheel window * compass window * dormer window * electric window * French window, french window * gable window * garret window * go out of the window, go out the window * Jesse window * Judas window, judas window * lancet window * lattice window * launch window * loop-window * low side window * lucarne window * luthern-window * maintenance window * mezzanine window * mullion window * Norman window * ogive window * oriel window * picture window * re-entry window * rose window * sash window * shop window * show window * storm window * therapeutic window * transfer window * transom window * trap window * trellis window * weather window * window bar * window blind * window box * window cleaner * window curtain * window display * window dresser * window-dressing * windowed * window envelope * window frame * windowfront * window gardening * window glass * windowing * window ledge * windowless * window manager * window of opportunity * window pane, windowpane * window plant * Windows * window sash * window screen * window seat * window-shopping * window sill, windowsill * window swallow * window tax * window washerVerb
(en verb)- Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see / Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down / His corrigible neck? — Shakespeare.
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* 1000 English basic wordswife
English
Noun
(wives)- My wife and I have decided to have a baby.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}