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English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹuːf/, /ɹʊf/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹuf/
- (Inland Northern American) IPA(key): /ɹʊf/
Audio (Inland Northern American): (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹuːf/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ɹuf/
- Rhymes: -ʊf, -uːf
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English rof, from Old English hrōf (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”).
Noun
[edit]- (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
- The roof was blown off by the tornado.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
- 1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward, draft:
- The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof
(Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.
- 1984, Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three (lyrics and music), “The Roof Is on Fire”:
- The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
We don't need no water: Let the motherfucker burn!
Burn, motherfucker, burn!
- The top external level of a building.
- Let's go up to the roof.
- 1962, Gerry Goffin et al. (lyrics and music), “Up on 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...
- The upper part of a cavity.
- The palate is the roof of the mouth.
- 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- 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.
- (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- (climbing) An overhanging rock wall.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- barrel roof
- blow the roof off
- built-up roof
- burn the roof
- butterfly roof
- catslide roof
- coach roof
- curb roof
- deck roof
- family roof
- fix the roof while the sun is shining
- French roof
- gable roof
- gambrel roof
- green roof
- hip roof, hipped roof
- hit the roof
- house-roof
- lantern roof
- like a cat on a hot tin roof
- low-slope roof
- mansard roof
- moonroof
- moon roof
- M roof
- pavilion roof
- peaked roof
- pent roof
- pitched roof
- protected membrane roof
- pyramid hip roof
- pyramid roof
- raise the roof
- roof assembly
- roof-brain chatter
- roof curb
- roof knocking
- roof light
- roof of the mouth
- roof over one's head
- roof-plate
- roof prism
- roof rabbit
- roof rack
- roof rake
- roof rat
- roof riding
- roof square
- roof tax
- roof tile
- rooftile
- rooftop
- roof tree
- rooftree
- 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
- sunroof
- sunshine roof
- through the roof
- tin roof ice cream
- tin roof pie
- tin roof sundae
- turf roof
- turf-roof
- under someone's roof
- unroof
- unroofed
Translations
[edit]the cover at the top of a building
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the upper part of a cavity
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English rofen, roven (“to roof”), from the noun (see above).
Verb
[edit]roof (third-person singular simple present roofs, present participle roofing, simple past and past participle roofed)
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 264:
- 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.
- To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
- (transitive, slang) To put into prison, to bird.
- 1998 March 4, “Law and Disorder”, in Beverly Hills, 90210, season 08, episode 22:
- 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.
- 2000 January 1, “Stupid”, in Mr. Metaphor (lyrics), The Will Tell Compilation Vol. 1: Thats Right Inc., performed by Word A' Mouth, Block McCloud, and Mr. Metaphor:
- 2012 November 15, “Brown Bag Wrap”, in Rare Chandeliers, performed by Action Bronson:
- 2018 May 5, “Attempted 1.0”, AM (lyrics), performed by Skengdo & AM of 410:
- You don’t want war, you’re shook of it
Hella man dash when their friend got roofed
- (transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.
- 1865, Thomas Greenbury, Pleasant Rambles Over Moors, Mountains, Mines, and Waterfalls[2]:
- They reached him: the pieces of rock had roofed him over—he was without injury or scratch.
- 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors[3]:
- It built him softly round, it roofed him warmly over, it rested, all so firm, on selection.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to cover or furnish with a roof
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch roof, from Old Dutch *rōf, *rouf, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz. More at robe.
Noun
[edit]roof m (plural roven, diminutive roofje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Negerhollands: roof
Verb
[edit]roof
- inflection of roven:
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch rōve. Cognate with Old High German ruf (Luxembourgish Roff), Old Norse hrufa (English dandruff). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewp-.
Noun
[edit]roof f (uncountable)
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]roof
- Alternative form of rof
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