What is a window: word meaning

It is impossible to answer the question of what a window is in one word, despite the fact that everyone would seem to know this. After all, windows are an integral part of buildings, representing an opening in the wall. But it turns out that this word has many meanings. Detailed information on what a window is will be presented in today's review.

Dictionary Interpretation

The lexical meaning of “window” in the dictionary is represented by many options.

1. A recess in the wall of a building or means of transport made with the aim of penetrating into it sunlight or air. (Anna entered the room to open the window sash, but Sergei asked her not to do this, as he was shivering).
2. A place in the building of an institution that is designed to ensure that its employees communicate with clients face to face. Moreover, such a place is separated by a partition in which a small opening was made. (Senior citizens who have come to the administration will be served separately in the tenth window).
3. In a figurative sense - a hole in something. (But finally, out of the window, which appeared between the clouds, a glance of sunlight glanced, illuminating the nearest meadow).
4. Charusa - open wormwood, located in a quagmire, the rest of the reservoir. (The window in the quagmire was surrounded by tall herbs of various colors and shades, with beautiful flowers and large leaves).
5. Conversational - time freed up on a schedule or schedule, especially between school lessons or student hours. (Natasha promised her mother that she would drop by a neighbor to the hospital immediately after she had a window on the schedule).

As you can see, the answer to the question of what a window is was not at all unequivocal.

In network technologies and in mathematics

To have a broader understanding of what a window is, consider other special meanings of the word.

1. Computer - one of the elements of the user graphical interface, which is a specific area on the screen. It is used for user and program communication. (One of the most annoying types of online advertising is pop-ups, which can also be classified as banners).
2. In network technologies, the number of data blocks that are transmitted through a communications network and can be sent without waiting for delivery confirmation. (Please explain how the window size can affect the transmission capacity of the channel?).
3. In mathematics, a sequence of data with a certain length. In its framework, any calculations are made. (This algorithm uses a sliding window whose size is fixed).

Phraseologisms

Having examined the meaning of the word “window”, we turn to the stable combinations existing in the Russian language in which it is used. These include, for example:

• A dormer window - in the roof, in the attic.
• The launch window is a period of time that is suitable for launching a rocket.
• No windows, no doors - a riddle for children.
• Venetian window - consists of three parts.
• The fiber window is a small window made in a wooden log house.
• A dull window is a window that does not open, with glass inserted in the frame.
• The red window is a large one, cut in peasant huts in the middle of the wall.
• Tape window - whose height is much less than the width.

But the most famous is the phrase “window to Europe”. The meaning of phraseologism will be discussed in more detail below.

Popular expression

The expression "window to Europe" was used by A. Pushkin in his famous poem "The Bronze Horseman", which the poet dedicated to Peter the Great as the founder of St. Petersburg. This city was the first seaport for the Russian state. Pushkin wrote that Russian nature on the Baltic coast is destined to “cut a window into Europe”.

Here is a brief background of these lines. During the war with the Swedes, which was called Northern, by April 1703, Russian troops broke the resistance of a number of Swedish fortresses and settled along the course of the Narva River.

Peter I, who dreamed of turning the Russian state into a sea power, in the place where during the retreat two fortresses were burned - Nyenschanz and Landskrona - laid a new city. This happened on May 27, 1703, and this city was St. Petersburg, named after the Holy Apostle Peter, a disciple of Jesus Christ, born in a fisherman's family. St. Petersburg became the port of Russia on the Baltic Sea.

Italian about Russia

However, for the first time, the expression “window to Europe” relative to the new Russian capital was not used by Alexander Sergeyevich, but by a completely different person. He was a traveler and art connoisseur from Italy, Francesco Algarotev. In one of his writings, entitled “Letters on Russia,” written in 1759, he used this expression.

But it became widely known nevertheless thanks to Pushkin, who wrote The Bronze Horseman in 1833. But in the note to the poem, Alexander Sergeyevich makes a reference specifically to the Italian, who was the first to call Petersburg the window through which Russia looks to Europe.