Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The exterior surface and its supporting structures on the top of a building.
- noun The upper exterior surface of a dwelling as a symbol of the home itself.
- noun The top covering of something.
- noun The upper surface of an anatomical structure, especially one having a vaulted inner structure.
- noun The highest point or limit; the summit or ceiling.
- transitive verb To furnish with a roof or cover.
- idiom (go through the roof) To grow, intensify, or rise to an enormous, often unexpected degree.
- idiom (go through the roof) To become extremely angry.
- idiom (raise the roof) To be extremely noisy and boisterous.
- idiom (raise the roof) To complain loudly and bitterly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete preterit of
rive . - To cover with a roof, in any sense of that word.
- To inclose in a house; shelter.
- To arch or form like a roof.
- noun The external upper covering of a house or other building.
- noun Anything which in form or position corresponds to or resembles the covering of a house, as the arch or top of a furnace or oven, the top of a carriage or coach or car, an arch or the interior of a vault, the ceiling of a room, etc.; hence, a canopy or the like.
- noun A house.
- noun The upper part of the mouth; the hard palate.
- noun Figuratively, the loftiest part.
- noun In geology, the overlying stratum.
- noun In mining, the top of any subterranean excavation: little used except in coal-mining.
- noun A roof but slightly inclined for the discharge of water. Roofs of this form are common in city buildings, especially in the United States, and are usually covered with sheet-metal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cover with a roof.
- transitive verb To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
- noun (Arch.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see
roofing ) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault theroof , and the outer protection theroof mask . It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering. - noun That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house
- noun (Mining.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- noun etc. (Arch.) See under
Bell ,French , etc. - noun (Arch.) A roof nearly horizontal, constructed of such material as allows the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination.
- noun (Arch.) See
Plate , n., 10.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
cover attop of abuilding . - noun The
upper part of acavity . - verb To
cover orfurnish with a roof.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space
- noun protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
- verb provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof
- noun a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
- noun an upper limit on what is allowed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"What comes from the roof," may not be very intelligible; still _roof_ is the word in the original edition of Gibbon, where it corresponds to _toit_ in
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The main body of the house is 14 feet high to the plates; the lower rooms are 9 feet high; the roof has a pitch of 35° from a horizontal line, giving partially-upright chambers in the main building, and _roof_ lodging rooms in the rear.
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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Has it ever occurred to you to ask the question, what effect the cottage would have upon your feelings if it had _no roof_? no visible roof, I mean; -- if instead of the thatched slope, in which the little upper windows are buried deep, as in a nest of straw -- or the rough shelter of its mountain shales -- or warm coloring of russet tiles -- there were nothing but a flat leaden top to it, making it look like a large packing-case with windows in it?
Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 John Ruskin 1859
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A redesigned hardtop has larger rear side windows and the roof is available in painted body color.
2011 Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, and Jeep vehicles are updated and show promise 2010
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In the center of the pillared gazebo-like structure beneath the opening in the roof is a pool of swirling meta-liquids.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum 2009
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If spencer or his father-in-law were to complain about the cost of fixing the roof, I would remind them that the cost of not fixing the roof is at least as great.
Social Security Transition Cost, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The north end of the roof is also designed to accomodate photo voltaic solar panels.
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The main walls are made of plaited palm fronds; the roof is a plastic sheet.
Did you know? A plastic island is constructed in Mexico 2008
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But when one reaches the front of the church and looks up at a statue of the crucified Jesus, looming over it in a window near the roof is a depiction of a single eye inside a pyramid with yellow and orange sun rays emanating from behind.
Why Does The Illuminati Eye Infest Christian Churches? | Disinformation 2008
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The main walls are made of plaited palm fronds; the roof is a plastic sheet.
Did you know? A plastic island is constructed in Mexico 2008
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