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Window vs Windrow - What's the difference?

window | windrow |

In transitive terms the difference between window and windrow

is that window is to place at or in a window while windrow is to arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.

window

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • *
  • *: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 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.}}
  • 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.
  • * (1663-1712)
  • *:till he has windows on his bread and butter

    • Coordinate terms

    * door

    Derived 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 washer

    Related terms

    * wind

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with windows.
  • To place at or in a window.
    • 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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    windrow

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia windrow) (en noun)
  • A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field
  • A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind
  • A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation
  • (Canadian) A line of snow or gravel left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s or grader’s blade.
  • (UK) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.
  • * 1899 , January 7, correspondent P.C.M., The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer , volume 22, number 1, “Vermilion”, page 7:
    • This cool spell favored the cane shipped to some extent, for if the weather had remained as warm for three or four days as it was Friday, all the cane that was windrowed' after the freeze would have been lost and much of it that was ' windrowed before the freeze would have met a like fate.
  • * 1979 , Ralph E. H. Sims, New Zealand Journal of Experimental Agriculture , ISSN 0301-5521, volume 7, number 4, “Comparative methods of harvesting oilseed rape”, page 79:
    • Threshing a previously windrowed' swath (' windrowing ) or cutting and threshing the crop in one operation (direct heading) are the common methods of harvesting oilseed rape.
  • * 1990 , J. A. Epps, (Transportation Research Board), NCHRP Synthesis of Highway Practice , ISSN 0547-5570, “Cold-Recycled Bituminous Concrete Using Bituminous Materials”, ISBN 0-309-04911-3, “Blade Mixing”, page 13:
    • Using a motor grader to windrow the pulverized reclaimed material.