noun. undefined

noun. The exterior surface and its supporting structures on the top of a building.

noun. The upper exterior surface of a dwelling as a symbol of the home itself.

noun. The top covering of something.

noun. The upper surface of an anatomical structure, especially one having a vaulted inner structure.

noun. The highest point or limit; the summit or ceiling.

transitive verb. To furnish with a roof or cover.

idiom. (go through the roof) To grow, intensify, or rise to an enormous, often unexpected degree.

idiom. (go through the roof) To become extremely angry.

idiom. (raise the roof) To be extremely noisy and boisterous.

idiom. (raise the roof) To complain loudly and bitterly.

An obsolete preterit of rive.

To cover with a roof, in any sense of that word.

To inclose in a house; shelter.

To arch or form like a roof.

noun. The external upper covering of a house or other building.

noun. Anything which in form or position corresponds to or resembles the covering of a house, as the arch or top of a furnace or oven, the top of a carriage or coach or car, an arch or the interior of a vault, the ceiling of a room, etc.; hence, a canopy or the like.

noun. A house.

noun. The upper part of the mouth; the hard palate.

noun. Figuratively, the loftiest part.

noun. In geology, the overlying stratum.

noun. In mining, the top of any subterranean excavation: little used except in coal-mining.

noun. A roof but slightly inclined for the discharge of water. Roofs of this form are common in city buildings, especially in the United States, and are usually covered with sheet-metal.

transitive verb. To cover with a roof.

transitive verb. To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.

noun. The cover of any building, including the roofing (see roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.

noun. That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house

noun. The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

noun. etc. (Arch.) See under Bell, French, etc.

noun. undefined

noun. A roof nearly horizontal, constructed of such material as allows the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination.

noun. See Plate, n., 10.

noun. The cover at top of a building.

noun. The upper part of a cavity.

verb. To cover or furnish with a roof.

noun. the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space

noun. protective covering on top of a motor vehicle

verb. provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof

noun. a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building

noun. an upper limit on what is allowed

""What comes from the roof," may not be very intelligible; still _roof_ is the word in the original edition of Gibbon, where it corresponds to _toit_ in"

ceiling  dutch roof  false roof  fan roof  flat roof  

french roof  

roofed  roofer  roofing  unroof  

cover  covering  natural covering  

aloof  goof  hoof  poof  proof  

arch  bed  building  ceil  deck  

Dymaxion house  French roof  M roof  White House  abiding place  

roofing  

roofed  roofing  roofs  rooves