windowed

1. 1
   adjective

   Fitted with windows, often of a particular kind; in heraldry, having window openings shown in a stated color.

   The architect favored a heavily windowed facade to flood the atrium with daylight.

   On the shield, the tower stands windowed in a contrasting color against its pale wall.

   Similarglazed, fenestrated

   Oppositewindowless

   Note

   The word is simply window plus -ed, already spelled wyndowed in Middle English. It thrives in compounds: many-windowed in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor (1857), golden-windowed in Siegfried Sassoon's "Morning Glory" (1917). Shakespeare's King Lear stretches it to rags full of holes: "loop'd and window'd raggedness." In heraldry it describes a tower or castle whose openings are drawn in a tincture different from its walls.

2. 2
   adjective

   Displayed within a window that covers only part of the screen rather than the entire display.

   Running the editor windowed lets you drag files in from the desktop behind it.

   Many players prefer a windowed setup so alerts from other programs stay visible.

   Note

   Game and software settings pair it with its opposite, full-screen: a program runs in windowed mode or in full-screen mode. It most often sits before mode, though it can also follow a verb on its own, as in run it windowed. Because it names an on-or-off setting, it takes no comparative, and nothing is more windowed than something else.

3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of window.

   Note

   One regular form serves three different verbs: furnishing a building with windows, placing something at or in a window, and, in signal processing, applying a window function to a signal (the samples were windowed before analysis). In the first meaning the participle is hard to tell from the adjective "fitted with windows", because a windowed tower can name either a finished act or a lasting state.

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