Roof Definition Oxford Dictionary

To put a roof on a building.

Roof definition oxford dictionary.

The rain woke him hammering on the roof. Roofed in adjectives having the type of roof mentioned flat roofed buildings. Roof something with in something their cottage was roofed with green slate. The car rolled onto its roof trapping him.

The covering that forms the top of a building vehicle etc. Go through the roof. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. Anatomy any structure that covers an organ or part the roof of the mouth.

The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. Roof third person singular simple present roofs present participle roofing simple past and past participle roofed transitive to cover or furnish with a roof. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. The house has a sloping flat tiled thatched roof.

The highest point. A house with corrugated iron roofing. 1 material for constructing a building s roof. As modifier a roof garden.

The roof upper surface of the cave is 50 metres up. Put the luggage on the roof of the car. 1 the structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle. The cover of a building.

Entry 1 of 2 1 a 1. The roof of a car or other vehicle is the top part of it which protects passengers or goods from the weather. Houses in villages are commonly rectangular and are dried mud bamboo or red brick structures with thatch roofs. The top covering of a vehicle oven or other structure the roof of a car.

Countable noun the roof of your mouth is the highest part of the inside of your mouth. Roof of your mouth the top of the inside of your mouth. Tim climbed on to the garage roof. An upper limit.

To cover something with a roof. Glass windows and tin roofing might be added to traditional adobe or log homes but daily routines within those dwellings rarely changed radically. Built of a strong timber frame and wooden floors the roofing was galvanized corrugated iron sheeting. Roof something in over the shopping centre is not roofed over.

The cave had a very low roof. Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. In combination the rooftop. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.

The roof of a dwelling conventionally designating the home itself didn t have a roof over my head they share the same roof. A car with a vinyl roof. The top of an underground space such as a tunnel or cave the roof of the tunnel was starting to collapse.