windowsill

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win·dow·sill /ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪl $ -doʊ-/ (also window ledge) noun [countable]  DHa shelf fixed along the bottom of a window 窗台，窗沿 →4  See picture of 见图 WINDOW

Examples from the Corpus

windowsill• You can have an instant garden for a windowsill, balcony, roof terrace, or even your doorstep.• Here and there the head of a child was seen peering over a windowsill.• Vermilion, cobalt and acid yellow melt across a sofa, a wall, a windowsill.• And there, beyond the books on the windowsill, her floods, transforming the world like the eye in love.• I reached for the brick on the windowsill.• I am going to put it on the windowsill.• He swung his legs over the windowsill and for an instant his torso seemed to disappear into the darkness inside.

win·dow·sill nounChineseSyllable  

fixed of along the bottom a a Corpus shelf

windowsill
win‧dow‧sill /ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪl $ -doʊ-/ (also ˈwindow ˌledge) noun [countable]
a shelf fixed along the bottom of a window

win·dow·sillBrE /ˈwɪndəʊsɪl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwɪndoʊsɪl/ 🔊 (also sill, ˈwindow ledge) noun

a narrow shelf below a window, either inside or outside 窗沿；窗台◆Place the plants on a sunny windowsill. 把这些植物放在阳光充足的窗台上。🔊🔊