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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
windshield
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
windshield wiper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wiper
▪ There was a parking ticket neatly tucked under the windshield wiper.
▪ All along the windshield wipers they got wedged under with legs and wings in disarray.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An effective windshield can save time and fuel.
▪ And a couple of those packages went right through the windshields of a few keepers' cars.
▪ Considering its robustness and the all-round windshield, weight is kept low and it packs neatly away into the small bag supplied.
▪ Then he saw the glowing tip of some one's cigarette behind the windshield.
▪ We needed a new propeller, windshield, wing struts, rudder and other parts to repair the fabric.
▪ When you hit them, you knock out their spindly legs and their big bodies come flying right through your windshield.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
windshield

1902, from wind (n.1) + shield (n.). U.S. alternative to British windscreen (which is attested from 1905 in this sense).

Wiktionary
windshield

n. (context North America English) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind and weather. vb. (context transitive English) To install a windshield on.

WordNet
windshield

n. transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle [syn: windscreen]

Wikipedia
Windshield

The windshield ( North America) or windscreen ( EU & Commonwealth countries) of an aircraft, car, bus, motorbike or tram is the front window. Modern windshields are generally made of laminated safety glass, a type of treated glass, which consists of two (typically) curved sheets of glass with a plastic layer laminated between them for safety, and are bonded into the window frame. Motorbike windshields are often made of high-impact acrylic plastic.

Usage examples of "windshield".

Bonner popped another beer and offered it to his son, but the boy--man, Bonner had to start thinking of him as a man--shook his head and instead touched the padded dash, the windshield, the incredible smoothness of the side.

Nefandi was pushed up against the windshield, and he saw the pangolin first.

It wrapped itself around a thin, mauve-faced bearded man, who was beating at it with a squeegee stick, the kind of squeegee that people like him use to smear across car windshields at traffic lights.

Thorn had finished filling the tank, he came like a conscientious attendant to treat the windshield with a squeegee no one had bothered to lock away.

She started the truck, put on her seatbelt, pulled the GPS out of her backpack, unfolded the little suction cup thingy and slapped it on the windshield.

Drummond looked at the tourer, a dark claret-colored Rolls-Royce convertible fitted with a small windshield between the front and rear seats.

It pours past unpreventably, like the reflection on a windshield as the car speeds through city or forest.

Norman Ashkenazi had thought, watching it through the windshield of the Mercedes, seen so much solid god-damned vertical water in my life.

A woman made it to her car, and sat in terror behind closed windows as bees crashed against the windshield like small stones.

I glanced over at Betsey and saw a grim look on her face as she stared out the windshield.

The Patent Leather Kid calmly, and swung his car wide so that Bill Brakey would have a clear shot around the side of the windshield.

Silently they came out of the night, flying westward in these eastbound lanes, came by the hundreds, by the thousands, great winged multitudes, dividing into parallel currents that flowed around the flanks of the vehicle, forming a third current that swept across the hood, up and over the windshield, following the slipstream away into the night, as hushed as birds in a dream without sound.

Harvath alternated between staring at the temperature reading, which was now down to minus fifteen degrees Celsius, and staring out the windshield toward the far edge of the field.

It was the same silent pilot who had taken him to dinner with the Cutters, and they whirred across the island with the pilot scowling out the windshield, seemingly wish ing to avoid even looking at Adam.

And more importantly, Captain Glassman was in the front wag, his hands on the windshield to keep standing.