"windscreen" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwɪn(d).skɹiːn/ Audio: en-au-windscreen.ogg [Australia] Forms: windscreens [plural]
Etymology: From wind + screen. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wind|screen}} wind + screen Head templates: {{en-noun}} windscreen (plural windscreens)
  1. (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather. Tags: Australia, British, Ireland, New-Zealand, Singapore Categories (topical): Artillery, Wind
    Sense id: en-windscreen-en-noun--MdqfBEs Disambiguation of Artillery: 28 6 31 25 10 Disambiguation of Wind: 40 21 18 18 3 Categories (other): Australian English, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English, Singapore English, English endocentric compounds, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English endocentric compounds: 35 8 21 24 12 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 2 16 39 4 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 48 2 20 26 4 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 42 2 24 26 6
  2. A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing. Translations (microphone cover): tuulisuoja (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-windscreen-en-noun-GB1IP~ZQ Disambiguation of 'microphone cover': 11 76 8 4
  3. (military) A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range. Categories (topical): Military, Artillery, Auto parts
    Sense id: en-windscreen-en-noun-c3lNuGnJ Disambiguation of Artillery: 28 6 31 25 10 Disambiguation of Auto parts: 26 3 42 25 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 2 16 39 4 Topics: government, military, politics, war
  4. A draught screen at the side of a passenger train doorway. Categories (topical): Artillery
    Sense id: en-windscreen-en-noun-hMlklsHu Disambiguation of Artillery: 28 6 31 25 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 2 16 39 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: windshield [North-America] Derived forms: windscreen phenomenon, windscreen washer, windscreen wiper Related terms: car glass

Verb

IPA: /ˈwɪn(d).skɹiːn/ Audio: en-au-windscreen.ogg [Australia] Forms: windscreens [present, singular, third-person], windscreening [participle, present], windscreened [participle, past], windscreened [past]
Etymology: From wind + screen. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wind|screen}} wind + screen Head templates: {{en-verb}} windscreen (third-person singular simple present windscreens, present participle windscreening, simple past and past participle windscreened)
  1. (transitive) To install a windscreen on. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-windscreen-en-verb--D1A7khR

Inflected forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/83/En-au-windscreen.ogg/En-au-windscreen.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/En-au-windscreen.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "windscreen"
  ],
  "word": "windscreen"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.