Synonyms for sill
sɪlsill

Princeton's WordNet

1. sillnoun

   structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure

2. sillnoun

   (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock

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1. • Geology
   • Rock
   • Structural Member

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1. sillnoun

   Synonyms:
   lower piece of a frame (as of a door or a window)

2. sillnoun

   Synonyms:
   ground-sill, ground-plate

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1. sillnoun

   Synonyms:
   threshold, window sill

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1. List of paraphrases for "sill":

   tonalite, threshold, herring, ledge

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1. James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002:

   We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

2. Pete Geren:

   I called my chief of staff, requested a plane, and we flew to Sill the next morning, we met with the soldiers who lived in the barracks, the commanding officer, viewed the mold firsthand, committed to fix the problem and we did.

3. John Carter:

   It is outrageous that this administration would even consider using our military installations to shelter illegal immigrants who have crossed our southern border, president Obama needs to enforce our immigration laws and secure our border, not undermine our military at a time when our country is facing increased threats from radical Islamic terrorists. Last year, amid a surge of unaccompanied children streaming in from Central America, the Pentagon began housing thousands of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, in Texas, Naval Base Ventura County, in California, and at Fort Sill, in Oklahoma. More than 10,000 unaccompanied minor children have streamed into United States over the Mexican border since October 1, the result of unchecked corruption and gang violence in their Central American homelands, and an effort by Mexican drug cartels to diversify into the very lucrative migrant smuggling business. The Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Refugee Relocation is required to take control of unaccompanied children once they enter the U.S., and the agency is once again being stretched to the limit by a surge that has reached an estimated 10,000 since October. In a statement, Fort Hood spokesman Tony Rheinlander said it is n’t even up to the Pentagon whether or not Fort Hood is used.

4. James Carroll:

   We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

5. Pete Geren:

   Bob had read news reports of mold in the barracks at Fort Sill, Okla., bob said ‘Let’s get a plane and get out there. The soldiers and their families need to meet face-to-face with the secretary of the army.’.