–noun

1.	a body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.

2.	d3e South Atlantic States. an arm of a swamp.

3.	a recess of land, partly surrounded by hills.

4.	an arm of a prairie or swamp, extending into woods and partly surrounded by them.

–noun

1.	an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.

2.	such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed.

3.	the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening: Finally the builders put in the windows.

4.	a windowpane.

5.	anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address.

6.	a period of time regarded as highly favorable for initiating or completing something: Investors have a window of perhaps six months before interest rates rise.

7.	Military. chaff 1 (def. 5).

8.	Geology. fenster.

9.	Pharmacology. the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic.

10.	Aerospace. a. launch window. b. a specific area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must reenter to arrive safely at its planned destination.

11.	Computers. a section of a display screen that can be created for viewing information from another part of a file or from another file: The split screen feature enables a user to create two or more windows.

–verb (used with object)

12.	to furnish with a window or windows.

13.	Obsolete. to display or put in a window.

–noun

1.	an act or manner of treating.

2.	action or behavior toward a person, animal, etc.

3.	management in the application of medicines, surgery, etc.

4.	literary or artistic handling, esp. with reference to style.

5.	subjection to some agent or action.

6.	Movies, Television. a preliminary outline of a film or teleplay laying out the key scenes, characters, and locales.

1430, "figure, image, symbol," from L. idea "idea," and in Platonic philosophy "archetype," from Gk. idea "ideal prototype," lit. "look, form," from idein "to see," from PIE *wid-es-ya-, suffixed form of base *weid- "to see" (see vision). Sense of "result of thinking" first recorded 1645.