windscreen
Speech parts
1. windscreen - Noun
2. windscreen - Verb
Meaning
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore) 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.
(military) A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.
windscreen (third-person singular simple present windscreens, present participle windscreening, simple past and past participle windscreened)
(transitive) To install a windscreen on.
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Besides a sign stuck to the windscreen identifying their vehicles as an MOH conveyance service, there is nothing else to distinguish them from other taxis on the roads.
A driver displays Uber and Lyft ride sharing signs in his car windscreen in Santa Monica, California, U.S., May 23, 2016.
Dakar debutant Fernando Alonso (left), the two-time former Formula One champion, lost more than an hour after double rolling his car, an accident that saw the Spaniard carry on driving with no windscreen.
Cut into it and you’ll find the granite riddled with long spidery lines like a shattered car windscreen.
Graham, 1996, p. 160. The outer windscreen of the cockpit was made of quartz and was fused ultrasonically to the titanium frame.
A piece of large plastic came off the windscreen of the boat and decapitated Campbell.