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# windscreen

«windscreen» in Mova's school dictionary: **The large glass window at the front of a car, bus or…** — 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 windscreen, windscreens; UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ)

### meaning for a pupil

The large glass window at the front of a car, bus or other vehicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windscreen/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and road safety: clear the windscreen of ice before driving; windscreen wipers clear rain. In science: windscreens are made of special safety glass. In the USA and Canada the same thing is called a «windshield».

### examples

- Dad scraped the ice off the windscreen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windscreen/#x1)
- Rain ran down the windscreen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windscreen/#x2)
- Turn on the windscreen wipers! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windscreen/#x3)
- A stone cracked the windscreen on the motorway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windscreen/#x4)
- Bugs splatted against the windscreen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windscreen/#x5)
- The parking ticket was stuck under the windscreen wiper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/windscreen/#x6)

### note

Countable. UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ: windscreen; USA/Canada: windshield. Safety: a clear windscreen is needed for the driver to see.

### In the corpora

- [Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving eyelids, so its tongue is its windscreen wiper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands/4/)
- [Some cars have a rain sensor that shines invisible light at the windscreen and switches the wipers on when raindrops change the reflection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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