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An intrusion of igneous rock which spreads along bedding planes in a nearly horizontal sheet. This level sheet may be up to 300 m in thickness. The best-known British example is the Great Whin Sill, which runs across the Pennines.

1. A horizontal timber, at the bottom of the frame of a wood structure, which rests on the foundation.
2. A doorsill.
3. The horizontal bottom member of a window frame or other frame.

sill, 1

A tabular, parallel-sided sheet of igneous rock, formed underground, that is parallel to the layered rocks around it.

An intrusive shet of lava that squeezed into sedimentary strata. The Palisades across the Hudson River from New York City are a good example. Also called a sheet.

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• Materials, Formations, and Substances - sill: thin layer of igneous rock extruded between layers of sedimentary rocks or volcanic ejecta
• Building and Machine Parts - sill: horizontal member at base of window or door

Look up sill or sills in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Sill may refer to:

• Sill (geology), a subhorizontal sheet intrusion of molten or solidified magma
• Sill plate, a construction element

• Window sill, a more specific construction element than above
• Automotive sill, also known as a rocker; see Glossary of automotive design#R

• Sill (river), an Austrian tributary
• Mount Sill, a California mountain
• Sill (geostatistics)
• Sill, Swedish word for herring (the Norwegian and Danish equivalent is sild, the Icelandic is síld)

Name

• Sills Cummis & Gross (formerly Sills, Beck, Cummis, Radin, Tischman & Zuckerman), a U.S. corporate law firm
• Beverly Sills (1929–2007), American operatic soprano
• Douglas Sills (born 1960), American actor
• Lester Sill (1918–1994), American record label executive
• Joshua W. Sill (1831-1862) American Civil War brigadier general
• Judee Sill (1944–1979), American singer and songwriter
• Paul Sills (1927–2008), director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago's The Second City
• Tim Sills (born 1979), English footballer
• Fort Sill, a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma, named for Joshua W. Sill

See also

• Cill
• Still, a permanent apparatus used to distill miscible or immiscible (e.g. steam distillation) liquid mixtures by heating to selectively boil and then cooling to condense the vapor
• Still (disambiguation)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - karm, tærskel, dørtrin

Nederlands (Dutch)
vensterbank, drempel

Français (French)
n. - seuil, rebord, appui, bas de caisse (d'une voiture)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schwelle, Sims

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οικοδ.) περβάζι, κατώφλι, αναβαθμός, στηθαίο, (γεωλ.) στρωματοειδής φλέβα

Italiano (Italian)
soglia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - peitoril (m) de janela, soleira (f) de porta

Русский (Russian)
наружный подоконник, порог, лежень, грязевой поток, сель

Español (Spanish)
n. - umbral, alféizar, solera

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fönsterbräda, syll, bottenbjälke

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
基石, 窗台, 门槛

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 基石, 窗臺, 門檻

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (기둥의) 토대, 문지방, (지질) 관입 암상

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 窓敷居, 敷居, 土台

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عتبه ألباب أو ألنافذة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אדן-חלון, סף‬

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