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A sill plate or sole plate in construction and architecture is the bottom horizontal member of a wall or building to which vertical members are attached. The word "plate" is typically omitted in America and carpenters speak simply of the "sill". Other names are rat sill, ground plate, ground sill, groundsel, night plate, and midnight sill. [1 ...
In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock. A sill is a concordant intrusive sheet , meaning that it does not cut across preexisting rock beds.
Sill (geostatistics) Sill (river), a river in Austria; Sill plate, a construction element Window sill, a more specific construction element than above; Automotive sill, also known as a rocker panel; see Glossary of automotive design#R; Fort Sill, a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma; Mount Sill, a California mountain
A drop structure, also known as a grade control, sill, or weir, is a manmade structure, typically small and built on minor streams, or as part of a dam's spillway, to pass water to a lower elevation while controlling the energy and velocity of the water as it passes over.
The influence of an aquatic sill on fjord water circulation. An aquatic sill (or an oceanic sill) is a sea floor barrier of relatively shallow depth (tens to hundreds of meters) that restricts water movement between benthic zones of an oceanic basin or lake bottom. [1] There are roughly 400 sills in the Earth's oceans, covering 0.01% of the ...
Books placed on an interior window sill or stool. 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. Window sills serve to structurally support and hold the window in place.
Cill or sill, in water navigation, a horizontal ledge in a lock Continental Indoor Lacrosse League , a senior men's box lacrosse league in the United States See also
The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary [1] (CCAD) from HarperCollins, first published in 1987, [2] is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions in full sentences, rather than excerpted phrases. Example sentences are given for almost every meaning of every word, drawn from a large corpus of actual usage.