Sash

Quick meaning: Sash is a noun meaning (clothing) A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.

Meaning

(clothing) A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.

More Meanings

1. (clothing) A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
2. (transitive) To adorn with a sash.
3. The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
4. (software, graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
5. (chemistry) A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.
6. (sawmilling) The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
7. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of shash (“the scarf of a turban”).

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: casement

Each hood is equipped with two sliding sashes, glazed with polished plate wire-glass; […]

One Morning he pulls off his Diamond Ring, and vvrites upon the Glaſs of the Saſh in my Chamber this Line, You I Love, and you alone.

So much for the ſilk in Judea called Sheſh in Hebrevv, vvhence haply, that fine linen or ſilk is called Shaſhes vvorn at this day about the heads of eaſtern people.

Word Forms

• sashes
• sashing
• sashed

Synonyms for sash

Depending on context, synonyms include belt, cummerbund, obi, waistband, casement, splitter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include waistband, waistcloth, girdle, cincture, scarf, cummerbund.

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