Sash

Definitions

1. A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
2. The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
3. A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
4. A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
5. Alternative spelling of shash (“the scarf of a turban”).
   alt-of, alternative, obsolete
6. The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
7. A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.

Equivalents

29 more languages

العربيةالزنارمنديل

Azərbaycan dilibelbağıqurşaq

BosanskibandaešarpapasSamiršerpaешарпапојас+ 4 more

Češtinašerpa

Danskskærf

Ελληνικάζώνηορθοστάτης

Esperantoskarpo

فارسیبروفه

Suomiikkunaikkunanpuitekehysnauharaamivyö+ 3 more

Gàidhligbann

Galegobaraza

עבריתאבנט

हिन्दीपटका

Hrvatskibandaešarpapasšerpaешарпапојас+ 3 more

Bahasa Indonesiasamir

Italianoantabattentefasciapersianasciarpa+ 2 more

한국어허리띠

Kurdîpanelpaspaşşerpa+ 1 more

Македонскиѕуницапојас

Bahasa Melayusawat

Nederlandsschuifraamsjerp

Polskikitajkapasszarfawstęga+ 1 more

Portuguêsfaixa

Русскийкушаклентапоясрама+ 1 more

Српскиbandaešarpapasšerpaешарпапојас+ 3 more

Svenskabågefönsterbågeskärp

Kiswahilishuka

Türkçemıntıka

Українськапояс

Examples

“So much for the ſilk in Judea called Sheſh in Hebrevv, vvhence haply, that fine linen or ſilk is called Shaſhes vvorn at this day about the heads of eaſtern people.”

“Near-synonym: casement”

“One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring⟳, and vvrites upon the Glaſs of the Saſh in my Chamber this Line, You I Love⟳, and you alone.”

“1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit⟳ from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”), Away to the window I flew like⟳ a flash⟳, Tore open⟳ the shutters, and threw up the sash.”

“"In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer—of whose works I possess⟳ the only copy⟳ extant—"it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier."”

“She chiefly recalled the Square under snow⟳; cold mornings, and the coldness of the oil-cloth at the window, and the draught of cold air through the ill-fitting sash (it was put⟳ right now)!”

“Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […]”

“[…] it [fume hood] also affords an excellent physical barrier on all four sides of a reacting system when the sash is pulled down.”

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