car window
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- noun
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ventanilla
- The children enjoyed the fresh breeze coming through the open car window.
I mean, and then so he put a brick through someone's car window.
- I mean, and then so he put a brick through someone's car window.
- And then out of nowhere a man dressed in all white smashed through the car window with a hatchet shouting about trespassing.
- People think you have to explain why people are like, you know, crashing police car windows with a bat.
- And just to come back and see a car window smashed and my items gone was just, it was, it was shocking.
- People who go to a Ren fairs are called Rennie's, so keep that in mind if you're ever yelling at one out an open car window.
- But, and then we smashed a car window and all over.
- And every week you put out content and marketing strategies and and upsell strategies that now help other mobile car window tinting dudes.
Examples
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Meredith peered out of the car window, her eyes scanning the scenery.
Fiction book (1996) -
When driving through animal compounds, please keep all car windows closed.
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And yes, I did hang my camera outside of my car window to film the street.
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If you stick your hand out of the car window and you turn it slightly, what happens?
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Oh, I had the car window open.
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You are not sticking your head out of a car window.
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I stared out the car window at the traffic and franchise signs along the road.
Fiction book (1998) -
Faith is staring forlornly out the car window as the driver gets in and turns over the engine.
Fiction book (1994) -
Isabel stared out the car window at the lighted boathouses on the opposite shore.
Fiction book (1998) -
He smiled and came over to where I was leaning out the car window, He took the matches from my hand, hum, "Thank you, ma'am," just as if he's been living in Texas all his life.
Synonyms
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An opening in a wall, roof, or vehicle with glass that lets light in and lets you see outside
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a window that is part of a car' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'car' and 'window' — a standard noun+noun compound denoting a window belonging to or part of a car. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Car window comes from putting car and window together to name the window that is part of a car. People kept the word window used for openings on older vehicles when cars arrived, so car window now means the glass you can open to 'see outside' or 'get fresh air'.