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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parts of buildings: windows & parts of windows
architrave
bay window
bi-fold
bow window
casement
glass something in/over
glaze
glazed
glazing
lattice window
multi-paned
pane
picture window
reglaze
rose window
storm window
transom
triple glazing
unglazed
window ledge

skylight | American Dictionary

skylight
noun[ C ]
us/ˈskɑɪˌlɑɪt/
a window built into a roof

Examples of skylight

skylight
The blue object is illuminated with the mixture of candlelight and skylight that illuminated the unshadowed area in the first case.
The sugar caster throws a blue shadow in the region where the paper is illuminated only by skylight.
The entire sheet of paper is then illuminated purely by skylight, as previously was the shadowed area.
The engine room skylight was damaged and the pumps stopped.
The small skylights produce a very dimmed ambience particularly well adapted to hot and sunny climates.
Both the flue and hearth are provocatively daylit, an adjacent window for the flue and skylight for the hearth, aligning these elements.
The interior lighting, based on skylight through the windows, reflected sunlight, and interior area sources, is excellent.
The room had skylights, and a fine tiled floor.
The intermediate circles represent the chromaticity of light reflected from the plaque in intermediate positions, when it is illuminated by both sunlight and skylight.
One of these is skylight; the other is the yellowish light of direct sunlight.
An unusual central island is surrounded by the glazed roof of the arcade, and itself lit by a skylight.
Instead of bands of horizontal windows contributing to overlook conditions, the entry bridge has a high glass roof; a bubble skylight is also visible.
Although most windows were openable, the skylights were sealed.
No sunlight penetrates through the skylight during the one hundred shortest days, because the sun hangs too low in the sky.
If a small object is placed on the paper, then it will cast a blue shadow in the region where the surface is illuminated only by skylight.
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