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Transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle
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windscreen
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British Australia New Zealand English) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of the its occupants to protect them from the wind and weather. vb. (cx transitive English) To install a windscreen ...
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n. transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle [syn: windshield ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES windscreen wiper COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN car ▪ Jimmy was temporarily blinded by the orange light which suddenly illuminated the car windscreen . ▪ He had reason to be proud he thought, as he gazed through his ...
Usage examples of windscreen.
A couple of bullets struck the windscreen on the flybridge and flew out the other side.
He held the car steady as a rock as Krebs, with bare feet, went over the windscreen and scrambled along the shining bonnet, his knife in his hand.
Mist formed quickly on the inside of the windscreen and Mackie rubbed it away impatiently with her glove.
Ross saw the soldier peering through the open window, his dark eyes flitting from the official passes on the windscreen to the one Tsao was holding out to him.
Hurtling into the path of the descending gunships, Mace reached through the Force to seize the support strut that divided the windscreen of the gunship in the middle, and pulled.
Slug impacts pounded prismatic dents across the transparis-teel windscreen.
It was too loud to complain, so I just hung on, one hand cemented around the rollbar, one clamped to my side of the windscreen, not trusting the stringy seatbelt as it cut into my vital organs.
He felt glad that Father Quixote had not seen her in that state, half on her side against the wall, the windscreen in smithereens, one door wrenched off its hinges, the other caved in, her tyres flattened by the bullets of the Guardia: there was no more of a future for Rocinante than for Father Quixote.
The sun gleamed off windscreens: the windscreens of half-tracks and lorries, and of an odd, boxy van with a steel loop on its roof, like the frame of a giant tennis racket.
She half closes her eyes as the evening sun glints on the windscreens of passing cars.
The cabbie touched a sensor plate, and the windscreen of the cab lit with a closeup of LeShaun Kinnison's oversharp face on heads-up display.
He cobbed the throttle to zone three afterburner, flew less than two hundred feet above the Tupolev-22M bomber, waited until he was clear, did two barrel rolls right in front of the Backfire's cockpit windscreen, then started a fast climb.
There were two men in the cab of the lead truck, One was a subaltern, Craig could make out his cap, badge and the glitter of his shoulder pips even through the dusty windscreen.
Beside Craig, Comrade Lookout was firing his AK through the gaping hole where the windscreen had been shot away, and overhead the heavy machinegun returned the fire from the kopje with a fluttering ear-numbing clatter.
He crosschecked the angle of attack with the reference marks he had drawn on the windscreen.