The word "sill" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
It is used as a noun to refer to a horizontal piece of material (usually wood or stone) that forms the base of a window or door frame. Example sentence: She placed a pot of flowers on the windowsill to brighten up the room.
Draped across the crimson plush sill of a box in the lower circle is a banner that reads "How Sad is Prudence".
Welch said the Chicago mission has a trained security team that keeps the peace, but the sheer number of people in close quarters sill means tempers flare: "You could have 1,000 Boy Scouts in the building and a fight would break out".
Her tiny mud-brick house boasts such modern conveniences as a computer bought with a loan from relatives, while arranged neatly on the kitchen window sill are her teenage daughter's cosmetics.
New Mexico will likely return to its customary quiet after the excitement of the November election has died down.In London, my adopted home, I propagated New Mexico-variety chilli seeds on my window sill in the early spring, and lovingly grew them to full size in my tiny greenhouse.
A similar process across the floor at the entrance incorporated a cofferdam of interlocking steel sheetpiling, which allowed the sill and gate hinge to be constructed in the dry.
They can be contrasted with sills, which are sheetlike intrusions oriented parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rock: a laccolith's ratio of diameter to thickness should be less than 10; a larger ratio would make the body a sill.
Manicured lawns, panama hats and nicely-trimmed clematis all have their place, but do they really express what it is to be a trowel-wielding, window-sill potting, urban green-fingers in 2012?
Kayumov refereed Lokomotiv's 1-0 win over Amkar Perm at the weekend, but on Monday was spotted by passers-by standing on the window-sill of his seventh-floor flat in western Moscow.
Compared with the Friday meeting, this one can be quite a squeeze, with many attendees standing, perching on window sills or sitting on the floor.
Window and door openings are boxed in with horizontal 2 × 4 lumber called headers at the top and sills at the bottom.
These are thinner, about 0.5 km (0.3 mi) thick or less, and are characterized by radiolarian-rich cherts, basaltic volcanic dikes, sills, and submarine lava flows, as well as silts and clays of the distal ends of turbidity flows.
