Synonyms for sill
sɪlsill

Princeton's WordNet

1. sillnoun

   structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure

2. sillnoun

   (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock

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1. • Geology
   • Rock
   • Structural Member

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1. sillnoun

   Synonyms:
   lower piece of a frame (as of a door or a window)

2. sillnoun

   Synonyms:
   ground-sill, ground-plate

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1. sillnoun

   Synonyms:
   threshold, window sill

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1. List of paraphrases for "sill":

   tonalite, threshold, herring, ledge

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1. Sigmund Freud:

   Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.

2. James Carroll:

   We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

3. James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002:

   We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

4. Dale Gibson:

   For city dwellers, herbs are a great thing to have growing on your window sill, rosemary, lavender, thyme, and chives are great options that require little space and provide produce for humans and bees.

5. Pete Geren:

   Bob had read news reports of mold in the barracks at Fort Sill, Okla., bob said ‘Let’s get a plane and get out there. The soldiers and their families need to meet face-to-face with the secretary of the army.’.