Roof
[ruːf] or [ruf]
Definition
(noun.) a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building.
(noun.) protective covering on top of a motor vehicle.
(noun.) the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space; 'the roof of the cave was very high'; 'I could see the roof of the bear's mouth'.
(verb.) provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof.
Checker: Rosalind--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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 the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
(n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
(n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
(v. t.) To cover with a roof.
(v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
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Definition
n. the top covering of a house or building: a vault or arch or the inner side of it: a house or dwelling: the upper part of the palate: the loftiest part the roof and crown of things: the top of a subterraneous excavation: (geol.) the overlying stratum.—v.t. to cover with a roof: to shelter.—ns. Roof′er one who roofs; Roof′ing covering with a roof: materials for a roof: the roof itself: shelter.—adj. Roof′less without a roof: having no house or home: unsheltered.—ns. Roof′let a small roof or covering; Roof′-plate a wall-plate which receives the lower ends of the rafters of a roof.—adj. Roof′-shaped shaped like a gable roof.—ns. Roof′-stā′ging a scaffold used in working on an inclined roof; Roof′-tree the beam at the peak of a roof: the roof.—adj. Roof′y having a roof or roofs.—French roof a form of roof with almost vertical sides; Gothic roof a very high-pitched roof; Mansard roof (see Mansard); Square roof one in which the chief rafters meet at a right angle.
Typist: Manfred
Unserious Contents or Definition
To find yourself on a roof in a dream, denotes unbounded success. To become frightened and think you are falling, signifies that, while you may advance, you will have no firm hold on your position. To see a roof falling in, you will be threatened with a sudden calamity. To repair, or build a roof, you will rapidly increase your fortune. To sleep on one, proclaims your security against enemies and false companions. Your health will be robust.
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Examples
- While there's a handful of fire or a mouthful of bed in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Laura had certainly written to say she would pass the night under the roof of her old friend--but she had never been near the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I said he was right there--never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Many varieties of coal produce a quantity of fine dust which settles in the roadways, on roof, and sides, and floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And they alone of all the citizens may not touch or handle silver or gold, or be under the same roof with them, or wear them, or drink from them. Plato. The Republic.
- You can't stand holding the roof up with your hands, for ever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But enter this my homely roof, and see Our woods not void of hospitality. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The roofs fell away from the castle on the hill. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They were of darkened red brick, brittle, with dark slate roofs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Outside the sun was up over the roofs and I could see the points of the cathedral with the sunlight on them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Over the shrubs, before her, were the pale roofs and tower of the old church. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There were the piles of city roofs and chimneys, more free from smoke than on week-days; and there were the distant masts and steeples. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He would be used to climbing, and his head wouldn't fail him on the roofs of the houses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The swallows circled around and I watched them and the night-hawks flying above the roofs and drank the Cinzano. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The singing again commenced, and rang through the high-roofed rooms, while we silently ascended the stair-case. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The building is flat roofed, and a line of sand-bags over the outer walls rendered the top quite a formidable defence for infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It looks as if it might be roofed, from centre to circumference, with inverted saucers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Great snow-eaves weighed down the broad-roofed Tyrolese houses, that were sunk to the window-sashes in snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the grey walls. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The builders had attained the art of using cement, and of roofing a building,--great improvements on the original Burgh. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This roofing tar when heated becomes liquid, and can be applied with a mop to the inside of the silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The building was covered with black roofing paper, and was also painted black inside. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We shall try that this season, and also gas or roofing tar, which I think will be excellent. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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