windowed
English
Etymology
From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window + -ed.
Adjective
windowed (not comparable)
- Fitted with windows (often of a particular kind).
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene 4,
- Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,
- That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
- How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
- Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you
- From seasons such as these?
- 1712, The Spectator, No. 276, Wednesday, January 16, 1712, Dublin: W. Wilson, 1778, Volume IV, p. 103,
- You must have seen a strange windowed house near Hyde-Park, which is so built that no one can look out of any of the apartments […]
- 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, Chapter 12,
- I need not say that my thoughts were chiefly with her as I leaned from the lattice, and let my eye roam, now over the walks and borders of the garden, now along the many-windowed front of the house which rose white beyond the masses of foliage.
- 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, “Morning Glory” in The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, p. 81,
- Loud the happy children quire
- To the golden-windowed morn;
- While the lord of their desire
- Sleeps below the crimson thorn.
- 1937, The Road to Oxiana, “Herat, 23 November,”
- The walls below are bare, but for a few glazed bricks and a peculiar three-windowed bay that reminds one of a villa in Clapham.
- 2004, Sally B. Donnelly, “Over the Really Long Haul,” Time, 22 March, 2004,
- Once the plane was at cruising altitude I spent the first hour or so just getting used to the surroundings—exploring the stand-up bar Singapore Airlines created at the back of the coach section, ducking into one of the two windowed rest rooms or longing for the plush seats in business class.
- a bow-windowed room
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, Scene 4,
- (computing, graphical user interface) Occupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)
- This game can be played both in windowed mode and in full-screen mode.
Antonyms
- (fitted with windows): unwindowed, nonwindowed
- (occupying a graphical window): full screen, nonwindowed
Translations
fitted with windows
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