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  2. Sill plate - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Sill (geology) - Wikipedia

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    A sill is a concordant intrusive sheet, meaning that it does not cut across preexisting rock beds. Stacking of sills builds a sill complex [1] and a large magma chamber at high magma flux. [2] In contrast, a dike is a discordant intrusive sheet, which does cut across older rocks.

  4. Water table (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A water table is a projection of lower masonry on the outside of a wall, slightly above the ground, or at the top of a wainscot section of a wall (in this case also known as a sill). It is both a functional and architectural feature that consists of a projection that deflects water running down the face of a building away from lower courses or ...

  5. Presentative (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    PRESTT le DEF sceau seal de GEN Charlemagne. Charlemagne Voici le sceau de Charlemagne. PRESTT DEF seal GEN Charlemagne 'This is the seal of Charlemagne.' However, the most common presentative in French is the (il) y a formula (from verb avoir ‘have’), as in the following sentence: ya PRESTT un a policier policeman qui REL arrive. arrives ya un policier qui arrive. PRESTT a policeman REL ...

  6. Drop structure - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Window sill - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Cill - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. Aquatic sill - Wikipedia

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    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 ...