roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːf/
ipa: /ɹʊf/
ipa: /ɹuf/
ipa: /ɹʊf/
ipa: /ɹuːf/
ipa: /ɹuf/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʊf
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: roofs
form: rooves
Etymology: From Middle English rof, from Old English hrōf (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”).
Senses: examples: text: The roof was blown off by the tornado.
text: 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof
(Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.
ref: 1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward, draft:
text: The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
We don't need no water: Let the motherfucker burn!
Burn, motherfucker, burn!
ref: 1984, Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three, “The Roof Is on Fire”:
topics: architecture
glosses: The external covering at the top of a building.
examples: text: Let's go up to the roof.
text: When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face,
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
And there, the world below can't bother me...
ref: 1962, Gerry Goffin et al., “Up on the Roof”:
glosses: The top external level of a building.
examples: text: The palate is the roof of the mouth.
text: As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.
ref: 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The upper part of a cavity.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An overhanging rock wall.
examples: text: Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: A hat.
Synonyms: sense: cover at top of building
word: rooftop
sense: cover at top of building
word: tect
sense: cover at top of building
word: thatch
sense: in a cavity
word: ceiling
Derived terms: barrel roof
blow the roof off
built-up roof
burn the roof
butterfly roof
catslide roof
coach roof
curb roof
deck roof
family roof
fix the roof while the sun is shining
French roof
gable roof
gambrel roof
green roof
hammer beam roof
hip roof
hipped roof
hit the roof
house-roof
lantern roof
like a cat on a hot tin roof
low-slope roof
mansard roof
moonroof
moon roof
M roof
pavilion roof
peaked roof
pent roof
pitched roof
protected membrane roof
pyramid hip roof
pyramid roof
raise the roof
roof assembly
roof-brain chatter
roof comb
roof curb
roof deck
roof garden
roof knocking
roof light
roof of the mouth
Roof of the World
roof over one's head
roof-plate
roof prism
roof rabbit
roof rack
roof rake
roof rat
roof riding
roof square
roof tax
roof tile
rooftile
rooftop
roof tree
rooftree
saddle roof
shed roof
single-ply roof
snow on the roof
snow on the roof top
sod roof
span roof
square roof
steep-slope roof
sunroof
sunshine roof
through the roof
tin roof ice cream
tin roof pie
tin roof sundae
turf-roof
turf roof
under one roof
under someone's roof
unroof
unroofed
V roof