ROOF
\ɹˈuːf], \ɹˈuːf], \ɹ_ˈuː_f]\
Definitions of ROOF
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof
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protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
By Princeton University
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provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof
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protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
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To cover with a roof.
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To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
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To cover with a roof.
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To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
By Noah Webster.
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The top covering of a building; any similar top covering, as of a car or a cave.
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To cover with, or as with, a roof.
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Roofing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The top covering of a house or building: a vault or arch, or the inner side of it: a house or dwelling.
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To cover with a roof: to shelter.
By Daniel Lyons
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To cover with a roof: to shelter.
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The covering of a house or building; a vault or arch in the interior; a house or dwelling; the upper part of the mouth; the palate.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The top part or cover of a house or other building; the inner side of a vault or arch; the interior upper part; a house or dwelling.
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To cover or furnish with a roof; to shelter.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] The cover or upper part of any building house, barn &c. :—classified according to the material of which it is formed, as wood, slate, tile, brick, stone, &c.;— also classified accounting to its external form, as shed roof, one-sided sloping roof: — gable roof, two-sided sharp sloping roof: — open roof, sloping concavely from the ridge and convexly to the eaves;— hip roof, four-sided sloping roof;- M roof, two gable roofs united in the form of the letter M;—Mansard roof, root divided into two slopes by an under set of rafters inclining slightly inwards, and an upper set inclining more towards the ridge—called also curb roof;—conical roof, circular roof tapering towards the ridge;—fat roofs are used only in the 'East;— in carpentry, the frame-work of timber which forms the Interior of a roof;- that which resembles the interior of a roof;—a vault: an arch: an overhanging canopy, as the sky;-the upper part of the mouth: the palate.
