roof
IPA: rˈuf
noun
- (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
- The top external level of a building.
- The upper part of a cavity.
- (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- (climbing) An overhanging rock wall.
- (astronomy) A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius and Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.
- To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
- (transitive, slang) To put into prison, to bird.
- (transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.
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Examples of "roof" in Sentences
- The roof of the building was made of tin.
- The roof and the doors are made by aluminum.
- The plan includes raising the roof on the building.
- The supposed floor of the labyrinth seems to be the roof.
- It was originally vaulted at the second floor and the roof.
- The roof structure was the most radical feature of the building.
- The palate is both the roof of the mouth and the floor of the nose.
- The exterior mortar and brick of the building buckled and the roof leaked.
- The clam shell doors met each in the middle of the roof with no centre support.
- The goaf shield is pivotably connected to both the floor sill and the roof cap.