Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A window sash that opens outward by means of hinges.
- n. A window with such sashes.
- n. A case or covering.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In architecture: A frame for glass, as forming a window or part of a window, and made to open by swinging on hinges which are generally affixed to a vertical side of the opening into which it is fitted.
- n. A compartment between the mullions of a window
- n. A deep hollow molding used chiefly in cornices, and similar to the scotia of classical or cavetto of Italian architecture. Oxford Glossary. Sometimes, erroneously, casemate.
Wiktionary
- n. a window sash that is hinged on the side and opens outward
- n. a window having such sashes; a casement window (Wikipedia)
- n. military a casemate
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Arch.) A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a window sash that is hinged (usually on one side)
Etymologies
- Middle English, a hollow molding, possibly from Middle English case, chest, frame; see case2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To express it in the same idle imagery it would be the fact that even a casement is a part of a house, as a kettle is a part of a household.”
“Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks.”
“` Drop the Bible into the room, 'for I had seen that the casement was a little open.”
“The only object of attraction to be seen from the casement was a fine view of the sea; but Ernest had been too long a sojourner on the wild waste of waters, not to have become weary of their monotony, and tired of gazing at what had been so long a familiar object, he turned his attention to the interior of the room.”
“The casement was a double one, but I felt sure I could drive a bullet through one of them.”
“The grills on each side of the entrance to the main hall were open; that is, the casement windows were thrown back.”
“Through a rent in the wall, forming a kind of casement, and about ten feet from the ground, the light now broke over the matted and rank soil, embedded, as it were, in vast masses of shade, and streaming through a mouldering portico hard at hand.”
“Glancing up to the window casement, she noted the sun was high in the morning sky.”
“Billy gap-grinning and breathing hard, bracing for another blow, shouting across the cul-de-sac at the propped casement window beneath the canopy porch of the dressing room where Baby crouches, watching...”
“If you want your Shakespeare in hock to unrelenting beats, populated by pimps and gimps, blow-up dolls and globetrotting MC crews - and performed with more zest than a casement of lemons - this is the transatlantic hiphop party musical for you.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘casement’.
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Cases of cases
Inspired by the Staircase bookcase.
staircase, bookcase, basket case, lowercase, uppercase, any case, nominative case, subjective case, oblique case, accusative case, dative case, cold case and 65 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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librarygoblin's words
crystal, ghost, mist, snow, labyrinth, citadel, tomb, mystery, arcane, conundrum, echo, dynamo and 389 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 more...
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King Lear
Some less-than-common words, significant themes, or excellent phrases from my favourite play.
moiety, brazed, champain, felicitate, interess, propinquity, betwixt, sith, forevouch, wat'rish, benison, ingraff and 111 more...
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You May Tell Yourself, "This Is Not M...
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cornice, balustrade, dado, bargeboard, buttress, clerestory, crenellation, cupola, corbel, dentil, vergeboard, quatrefoil and 101 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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Architecture
mullion, jamb, stile, transom, sash, casement, lites, muntin, wainscoting, dado, lincrusta, pilaster
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