Lintel vs. Sill

Lintelnoun

(architecture) A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.

Lintelnoun

A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.

Lintelnoun

horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

Lintelnoun

a horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window.

Lintel

A lintel or lintol is a structural horizontal block that spans the space or opening between two vertical supports. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item.

Sillnoun

(architecture) (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.

Sillnoun

(construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.

Sillnoun

(geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.

Sillnoun

A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

Sillnoun

(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.

Sillnoun

The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.

Sillnoun

(UK) A young herring.

Sillnoun

The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Sillnoun

The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.

Sillnoun

The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Sillnoun

A young herring.

Sillnoun

structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure

Sillnoun

(geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock