dome
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
business
chemistry
crystallography
geography
geology
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sewing
textiles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.
Inflected forms:
form: domes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: domes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: domed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: domed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
pos: noun
examples: geodesic dome
gloss: Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: a cake dome
lava dome
The heatwave, caused by what meteorologists described as a dome of high pressure, extends from California up through areas in Canada’s Arctic territories and was worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.
gloss: A person's head.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.
Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone
Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome
I got five Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones,
Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.
gloss: head, oral sex
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.
gloss: A building; a house; an edifice.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
poetic
examples: pleasure dome
Approach the dome, the social banquet share.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: steam dome
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
pos: noun
gloss: A press stud or snap fastener.
pos: noun
gloss: To give a domed shape to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]
[…] the general effect being to dome the cover upward at least 1,000 and probably 2,000 feet, and to metamorphose the limy sediments into hornstones […]
gloss: To shoot in the head.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
slang
transitive
examples: That guy just got domed!
You can get hit with the fifth / Twisted with the biscuit / Blasted with the ratchet / Jacked with the MAC / Bodied with the shotty / Dumped with the pump / Rocked with the Glock / Sprayed with the 'K / Domed with the chrome
A wise man once said six bullets is more than enough to kill anything that moves. But unlike that man, I'd rather not spend half the fight slowly reloading while getting domed by enemy gunfire.
gloss: To perform fellatio on.
pos: verb
tags: US
colloquial
slang
transitive
Derived words: airdome
astrodome
biodome
bonedome
brachydome
cheese dome
chrome-dome
chrome dome
Clingmans Dome
clinodome
cryptodome
domal
dome car
domeless
dome light
domelike
dome nut
dome piece
dome pit
dome-shaped
domeshaped
domic
domical
domish
domophobia
domy
double-dome
doubledome
endome
enormodome
geodesic dome
geodome
give dome
heat dome
hemidome
interdome
Iron Dome
lava dome
macrodome
megadome
minidome
mud dome
myodome
Norton's dome
off the dome
off the top of one's dome
onion dome
orthodome
pleasure dome
radar dome
radome
rotodome
salt dome
sand dome
semidome
skydome
snowdome
soundome
steam dome
Thunderdome
zome
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