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# windowsill

«windowsill» in Mova's school dictionary: **the flat shelf at the bottom of a window, inside or outside** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a windowsill, windowsills)

### meaning for a pupil

A windowsill is the flat shelf at the bottom of a window, inside or outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life people put plants, ornaments or cups on the windowsill; in science you grow seeds on a sunny windowsill. In safety lessons, never climb or sit on a windowsill of an open upstairs window. Phrases: «on the windowsill», «a sunny windowsill».

### examples

- The cat likes to sleep on the windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/#x1)
- We grew bean plants on the classroom windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/#x2)
- Mum left the pie on the windowsill to cool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/#x3)
- A bird landed on the windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/#x4)
- Don't sit on the windowsill when the window is open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/#x5)
- There is dust on the windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/#x6)
- Snow piled up on the outside windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/#x7)

### note

Countable. Also written «window sill» (two words) or just «sill». Safety: young children can fall from windows; keep furniture away from windows and never lean on the screen.

### In the corpora

- [Leave a glass of milk on a sunny windowsill and by evening it smells sour and has lumps in it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt/0/)
- [Never lean out of an upstairs window or sit on a windowsill, and keep furniture away from windows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «windowsill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windowsill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.