roof
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
business
climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
sports
Etymology: From Middle English rof, from Old English hrōf (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”). Cognate with Scots ruif (“roof, ceiling”), Dutch roef (“cabin on a boat”), Icelandic hróf (“shed”), Irish cró (“pen, barn, cabin”), Proto-Slavic *stropъ (“roof, ceiling”). Compare Faroese rógv (“something high up”).
Inflected forms:
form: roofs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rooves
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
uncommon
form: roofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The external covering at the top of a building.
pos: noun
examples: The roof was blown off by the tornado.
'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof
(Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
We don't need no water: Let the motherfucker burn!
Burn, motherfucker, burn!
gloss: The top external level of a building.
pos: noun
examples: Let's go up to the roof.
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...
gloss: The upper part of a cavity.
pos: noun
examples: The palate is the roof of the mouth.
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.
gloss: The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
pos: noun
gloss: An overhanging rock wall.
pos: noun
gloss: A hat.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
examples: 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.
gloss: To cover or furnish with a roof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A trench about ten feet deep was dug in the ground and roofed over with sticks and earth so as to form a dark tunnel.
gloss: To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
pos: verb
gloss: To put into prison, to bird.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Did you see them, David? I mean, did you see them looking at me? I-I'm walking out of the court, and everybody was practically – yeah, they were gawking. […] I mean, Noah roofed me, I proved it, end of story.
I’m open, hype off the chronic I was smoking, feeling zooted
That Brooklyn shit got me stupid
I’m loose, kid – that’s what the overproof did
What the ruck you looking at, son? You’ll get roofed, kid!
Inhale the mystical, the blue shit
See me on the stoop shit, act stupid at the park, the ball, get roofed
Baby see the cops, the drugs, she boofed it
Foie gras at every meal, that means I triple-goosed it
You don’t want war, you’re shook of it
Hella man dash when their friend got roofed
gloss: To shelter as if under a roof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They reached him: the pieces of rock had roofed him over—he was without injury or scratch.
It built him softly round, it roofed him warmly over, it rested, all so firm, on selection.
Derived words: barrel roof
blow the roof off
built-up roof
burn the roof
butterfly roof
catslide roof
coach roof
curb roof
deck roof
deroof
disroof
ecoroof
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
Hutton Roof
lantern roof
like a cat on a hot tin roof
low-slope roof
mansard roof
moonroof
moon roof
M roof
nonroof
overroof
pavilion roof
peaked roof
pent roof
pitched roof
protected membrane roof
pyramid hip roof
pyramid roof
raise the roof
reroof
roofage
roof assembly
roofball
roofbeam
roofbolt
roofbox
roof-brain chatter
roof comb
roof curb
roof deck
roof flap
roofful
roof garden
roof knocking
roofless
rooflet
roof light
rooflike
roofline
roof of the mouth
Roof of the World
roof over one's head
roof over the head
roof-plate
roof prism
roof rabbit
roof rack
roof rake
roof rat
roof riding
roofscape
roofspace
roof square
roofstone
roof tax
rooftile
roof tile
rooftop
rooftree
roof tree
roof turret
roofward
roofwise
roofwork
roofy
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
subroof
sunroof
sunshine roof
through the roof
tin roof ice cream
tin roof pie
tin roof sundae
turf roof
turf-roof
under one roof
underroof
under someone's roof
unroofed
V roof
unroof
roofer
roof over
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