Todays word is WINDOW. I am ill again today...this virus just doesn't seem to want to leave me. So for once l have to use an image from another day..sorry!!! I thought ok..openings with or without glass. Could be in a house, church, outhouse, car, train, bus, aeroplane, doll's houses and so on! So it is a window and that sounds so boring...how could l make it interesting..the window into your soul maybe..or the television is the window into the world? A window of oppurtunity? um!
Anyway after much thinking between rushing to the loo for one end or other (sorry about the image you must have in your mind now!!oops!). Anyway, l decide to go for a window but an old one in an old building with a thatched roof. Admittedly not a well kept thatched cottage but we are only after a window!!
window |ˈwindō|noun1 an opening in the wall or roof of a building or vehicle that is fitted with glass or other transparent material in a frame to admit light or air and allow people to see out.• a pane of glass filling such an opening : thieves smashed a window and took $600.• an opening in a wall or screen through which customers are served in a bank, ticket office, or similar building.• a space on the inside of a store's window where goods are displayed for sale : I prefer the red dress that's in the window | [as adj. ] beautiful window displays.2 a thing resembling such an opening in form or function, in particular• a transparent panel on an envelope to show an address.• Computing a framed area on a display screen for viewing information.• ( window on/into/to) a means of observing and learning about :television is a window on the world.• Physics a range of electromagnetic wavelengths for which a medium (esp. the atmosphere) is transparent.3 an interval or opportunity for action : February 15 to March 15 should be the final window for new offers.• an interval during which atmospheric and astronomical circumstances are suitable for the launch of a spacecraft.4 strips of metal foil or metal filings dispersed in the air to obstruct radar detection. [ORIGIN: military code word.]PHRASESgo out the window informal (of a plan or pattern or behavior) no longer exist; disappear.window of opportunity a favorable opportunity for doing something that must be seized immediately if it is not to be missed.window of vulnerability an opportunity to attack something that is at risk (esp. as a cold war claim that America's land-based missiles were easy targets for a Soviet first strike).windows of the soul organs of sense, esp. the eyes.DERIVATIVESwindowless |ˈwɪndoʊləs| adjective (in sense 1) .ORIGIN Middle English : from Old Norse vindauga, from vindr ‘wind’+ auga ‘eye.’
Sunday, November 29, 2009
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what a totally lovely image! And to me, a window is incredibly evocative. I look forward to seeing more on your site just as soon as I recover from nanowrimo!
ReplyDeletethank you for coming by my blog and leaving a comment. How interesting-- you take an image and then brainstorm ideas, words, definitions and so on about the image-- when I start a new series of paintings on a theme I make lists of words and phrases as well to get me started.
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