windscreen

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/ˈwɪn(d).skɹiːn/

noun 4verb 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

front, rear | car

VERB + WINDSCREEN

clean, scrape, wipe

The driver wiped the windscreen to remove the rain and improve visibility.

break, chip, crack, shatter, smash | fit, put in, replace, take out

clear, demist

He turned on the heating to demist the windscreen before driving through the fog.

WINDSCREEN + VERB

mist up | crack, shatter

WINDSCREEN + NOUN

wiper

PREP

on a/the ~

A thick layer of frost covered the windscreen this morning, so I had to scrape it off.

through a/the ~

Rain streamed through the windscreen as the car pulled into the garage.

Definitions

noun

A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather.

Oh no! A vandal has just smashed our windscreen! Susan, can you go and call the insurance company?

A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.

A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.

A draught screen at the side of a passenger train doorway.

As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.

verb

To install a windscreen on.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a v

windshield

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Oh no! A vandal has just smashed our windscreen! Susan, can you go and call the insurance company?

Wiktionary

Windscreen wipers are useless against ice.

Tatoeba · #749933

Someone broke the windscreen of my new car.

Tatoeba · #749947

The windscreen is the large glass window at the front of a vehicle.

Tatoeba · #749954

We went for a swim in the sea and afterwards dried our wet bathing things, sticking them under the windscreen wipers of the car.

Tatoeba · #2515011

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