Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
A wind-eye, an opening in a wall or roof.
Modern meaning
An opening for light and air; also a framed space on a computer screen.
Research lens
A room-opening metaphor that became one of the operating system's most natural-seeming abstractions.
Meaning trail
Root
wind-eye
The old image is literal air and sight through an opening.
Older sense
wall or roof opening
Architecture supplied the physical frame.
Now
screen frame
Computing borrowed the opening and kept the enclosure.