Crossword clues for awning
awning
- In one part of house, install new canopy
- Shade source
- Street shader
- Sign of sleepiness
- Window canopy
- Storefront shade maker
- Storefront shade
- Storefront canopy
- Patio covering
- Doorway shelter
- Canvas shade source
- Velarium, e.g
- Storefront projection, often
- Storefront projection
- Storefront feature
- Storefront device
- Store canopy
- Sidewalk shade
- Protection for window-shoppers
- Porch shader
- Doorway shade provider
- Canvas shade maker
- Canvas covering over, say, a patio
- Café shade provider
- Storefront sight
- Cafe sunshade
- Storefront cover
- Shade provider
- Sun shade
- Cafe feature
- Shade maker
- Deck cover
- Overhang
- Shop shelter
- Store window shader
- A canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun
- Velarium, e.g.
- Shelter of a sort
- Canvas shelter
- Shade producer
- Sidewalk shade source
- Canopy
- Crawling fellow leaves cover outdoors
- Canvas cover over a shop entrance
- Canvas canopy
- Shade, new, installed in a part of building
- Blind gaping, scratching head
- It blocks the sun after start of daybreak
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Awning \Awn"ing\ ([add]n"[i^]ng), n. [Origin uncertain: cf. F. auvent awing, or Pers. [=a]wan, [=a]wang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered from wind and weather, E. haven.]
A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
(Naut.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1624, origin uncertain (first recorded use is by Capt. John Smith), perhaps from Middle French auvans, plural of auvent "a sloping roof," "itself of doubtful etym[ology]" (OED). A nautical term only until sense of "cover for windows or porch" emerged 1852.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2 (context nautical English) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An awning or overhang is a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building. It is typically composed of canvas woven of acrylic, cotton or polyester yarn, or vinyl laminated to polyester fabric that is stretched tightly over a light structure of aluminium, iron or steel, possibly coot or transparent material (used to cover solar thermal panels in the summer, but that must allow as much light as possible in the winter). The configuration of this structure is something of a truss, space frame or planar frame. Awnings are also often constructed of aluminium understucture with aluminium sheeting. These aluminium awnings are often used when a fabric awning is not a practical application where snow load as well as wind loads may be a factor.
The location of an awning on a building may be above a window, a door, or above the area along a sidewalk. With the addition of columns an awning becomes a canopy, which is able to extend further from a building, as in the case of an entrance to a hotel. Restaurants often use awnings broad enough to cover substantial outdoor area for outdoor dining, parties, or reception. In commercial buildings, an awning is often painted with information as to the name, business, and address, thus acting as a sign or billboard as well as providing shade, breaking strong winds, and protecting from rain or snow. In areas with wintry weather, most awnings do not have to be taken down at the end of the summer - they can remain retracted against the building all winter long, or be designed and built for those conditions.
Awning is an outdoor 1976 painted aluminum sculpture by Canadian artist Douglas Senft, located near Southwest 3rd Avenue and Southwest Market Street in downtown Portland, Oregon. The sculpture was selected and funded by the Portland Development Commission from more than 200 proposals in a request for art intended to "humanize the modern architecture" of the Portland Center. Senft was 26 years old when Awning was installed. It is part of the collection of the Regional Arts & Culture Council. The yellow-colored work is mounted to the side of 200 Market along a pedestrian trail that serves as an extension of Third Avenue.
Usage examples of "awning".
Langeron and Yekaterininskaya streets, directly opposite the huge Fankoni Cafe where stockbrokers and grain merchants in Panama hats sat at marble-topped tables set out right on the pavement, Paris-style, under awnings and surrounded by potted laurel trees, the cab in which Auntie and Pavlik were travelling was all but overturned by a bright-red automobile driven by the heir to the famous Ptashnikov Bros, firm, a grotesquely bloated young man in a tiny yachting cap, who looked amazingly like a prize Yorkshire pig.
When he was able to make out details, he saw the pallet waiting for him beneath the awning that protected the saddle and harness.
All that mattered was that after a moment that seemed to last a year, the dragon sighed, heaved himself out of the wallow with a groan, ducking his head to avoid the canvas awning, and stepped up onto the stone verge.
Kashet, and had left it under the awning where Vetch kept his few belongings.
Instead, he and his companions camped on the deck, sleeping on raffia mats under a canvas awning that slanted steeply from the rail of the quarterdeck to a cleat by the cargo well.
They sat on rolled raffia mats under the awning, their faces lit by a single candle which flickered in a resin holder.
The boy squatted in front of his master in the shade of the awning and watched him eat with a tender anxiety.
Oncus sat cross-legged on the main deck under the awning, between Yama and Captain Lorquital, who lay on her side, propped by bolsters and puffing calmly on her pipe.
Pandaras, sitting bare-chested and cross-legged in the shade of the awning at the far end of the main deck, looked up from the embroidery work he was doing on the collar of his shirt.
In front of them, on a single pillow at the edge of the awning, half under the awning, half out under the open sky, sat the man on whom all attention was fixed.
After a moment, Veselov rose and walked out the side of the awning and around to the semicircle.
Charles nodded, he stepped under the awning, leaving his attendants behind.
Bakhtiian halted five paces outside the awning of the tent and inclined his head toward Charles Soerensen.
Cara helped him lift her up and steer her out from under the awning and into the covering darkness between the two large tents.
Now, waiting, the pillows were empty, except for a single figure sitting under the center of the awning, writing painstakingly in a book.