Roof Definition Oxford Dictionary

The cave had a very low roof.

Roof definition oxford dictionary. Countable noun the roof of your mouth is the highest part of the inside of your mouth. The roof upper surface of the cave is 50 metres up. 1 the structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle. The car rolled onto its roof trapping him.

The highest point. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. The rain woke him hammering on the roof. A car with a vinyl roof.

1 material for constructing a building s roof. Roof third person singular simple present roofs present participle roofing simple past and past participle roofed transitive to cover or furnish with a roof. To put a roof on a building. The covering that forms the top of a building vehicle etc.

Roofed in adjectives having the type of roof mentioned flat roofed buildings. Glass windows and tin roofing might be added to traditional adobe or log homes but daily routines within those dwellings rarely changed radically. Material used for a roof. As modifier a roof garden.

The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. An upper limit. The top covering of a vehicle oven or other structure the roof of a car.

Roof something in over the shopping centre is not roofed over. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. Built of a strong timber frame and wooden floors the roofing was galvanized corrugated iron sheeting. The roof of a dwelling conventionally designating the home itself didn t have a roof over my head they share the same roof.

The top of an underground space such as a tunnel or cave the roof of the tunnel was starting to collapse. Houses in villages are commonly rectangular and are dried mud bamboo or red brick structures with thatch roofs. The roof of a car or other vehicle is the top part of it which protects passengers or goods from the weather. A house with corrugated iron roofing.

A structure that covers or forms the top of a building. The cover of a building. Anatomy any structure that covers an organ or part the roof of the mouth. To cover something with a roof.

In combination the rooftop. Entry 1 of 2 1 a 1. Go through the roof. Put the luggage on the roof of the car.

Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. Roof of your mouth the top of the inside of your mouth. Tim climbed on to the garage roof.