Definitions and meaning of sash
sash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sæʃ/
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- Rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology 1
From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
Noun
sash (plural sashes)
- (clothing) A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
- Synonyms: belt, cummerbund, obi, waistband
- (clothing) A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
- (obsolete) Alternative spelling of shash (“the scarf of a turban”).
Derived terms
- lap sash seatbelt
- sash belt
- sashery
- undersash
- unsash
Translations
Verb
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
- (transitive) To adorn with a sash.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,[2]
- […] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.
Etymology 2
From sashes, from French châssis (“frame (of a window or door)”), taken as a plural and -s trimmed off by the late 17th century. See also chassis.
Noun
sash (plural sashes)
- 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. [circa 1680]
- Near-synonym: casement
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- 1823, Clement Clarke Moore, “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (“The Night before Christmas”),[3]
- Away to the window I flew like a flash,
- Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
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- (software, graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- Synonym: splitter
- (sawmilling) The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
- (chemistry) 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.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sash (third-person singular simple present sashes, present participle sashing, simple past and past participle sashed)
- (transitive) To furnish with a sash.
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Source: wiktionary.org