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 Translation for 'window sill' from English to Portuguese
NOUN   a window sill | window sills
bancada {f}window sill
janela {f}window
7
meter a cabeça para fora da janelato poke one's head out of the window
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Usage Examples English
  • A windowsill (also written window sill or window-sill, and less frequently in British English, cill) is the horizontal structure or surface at the bottom of a window.
  • It is covered with a shed roof, the parts are divided by a window-sill cornice.
  • Craftsmen use them to mark clapboard and brick courses so that, for example, a course ends neatly below a window sill or at a door's architrave.
  • However, closer inspection of the standing fabric and the carpentry work of the hidden window frame have confirmed that the former Georgian window sill appears to have been removed at some time and the existing window frame extended to ground level.
  • The building was demolished in 1965 leaving only the southernmost wall visible to window sill height, some coursing and the Bardwell Road wall with its bricked-up entrance way.

  • From an early age, he was fascinated with mechanical toys, whether making model aircraft on the nursery window sill, arranging layouts for model trains or taking clocks to pieces.
  • Lady Montgomery, who was alleged to have signaled the murderers by placing a white 'napkin' on a window sill, is said to have escaped and lived with her retainer Robert Kerr at Pearce Bank (now High Peacockbank) for several years until the 'hue and cry' died down at which point she returned to the castle and was not molested on the understanding that she did not 'show her face' outside of the grounds.
  • At the restaurant level, these panels are glazed over the entire width and complemented by a low window sill, while at the hotel level there are smaller windows with rounded corners.
  • Bart tries to steal a pie cooling on a window sill at Mr.
  • Its library has preserved his signature, carved into a window sill when he was a youth.

  • A hook ladder, also known as a pompier ladder (from the French "pompier" meaning firefighter) is a type of ladder that can be attached to a window sill or similar ledge by the use of a hooked extending bill with serrations on the underside.
  • The observer, having mounted the glass plate on the horizontal axis of a theodolite set on a window-sill some 30 or 40 feet above the ground, places his eye close to it and adjusts its inclination so that the images of a cloud reflected in the plate and in the sheet of water coincide.
  • The cars "oddities" are listed as the reverse-acting gearbox gate, window-sill door locks and windscreen wiper controls.
  • The oranges which lie on the window sill and chest may symbolize the purity and innocence that reigned in the Garden of Eden before the Fall of Man.
  • At the end of September – according to her sister Gabriele – Renate was drunk and sitting on a window sill when she lost her balance.

  • The story goes that, while making a coloured liquid for a thermometer Cornelis dropped a flask of aqua regia on a tin window sill, and discovered that stannous chloride makes the colour of carmine much brighter and more durable.
  • An early use of scagliola in England is in a fireplace at Ham House, Surrey, which was brought from Italy along with the window sill in the reign of Charles II.
  • Kiyoaki is filled with satisfaction to see Satoko, Tadeshina and Iinuma drift out of his life; and he takes pride in his lack of emotion when Iinuma tearfully takes his leave, later comparing his own ultra-correct conduct with the elegant progress of a beetle on his window-sill.
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