dome
IPA: dˈoʊm
noun
- (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
- (informal) A person's head.
- (slang) head, oral sex
- (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
- (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To give a domed shape to.
- (transitive, colloquial, slang) To shoot in the head.
- (transitive, US, African-American Vernacular, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.
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