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roof
[ roof, roof ]
noun
- the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- a frame for supporting this:
an open-timbered roof.
- the highest part or summit:
The Himalayas are the roof of the world.
- something that in form or position resembles the roof of a house, as the top of a car, the upper part of the mouth, etc.
- a house.
- Mining. the rock immediately above a horizontal mineral deposit.
verb (used with object)
- to provide or cover with a roof.
roof
/ ː /
noun
- a structure that covers or forms the top of a building
- ( in combination )
the rooftop
- ( as modifier )
a roof garden
- the top covering of a vehicle, oven, or other structure
the roof of a car
- anatomy any structure that covers an organ or part
the roof of the mouth
- a highest or topmost point or part
Mount Everest is the roof of the world
- a house or other shelter
a poor man's roof
- mountaineering the underside of a projecting overhang
- hit the roof or go through the roof informal.
- to get extremely angry; become furious
- to rise or increase steeply
- raise the roof
- to create a boisterous disturbance
- to react or protest heatedly
verb
- tr to provide or cover with a roof or rooflike part
Derived Forms
- ˈǴǴڱ, adjective
- ˈǴǴڱ, noun
- ˈǴǴˌ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ǴǴl adjective
- ·ǴǴ verb (used with object)
- -ǴǴڱ adjective
- ܲd·ǴǴ noun
- ܲ·ǴǴڱ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of roof1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of roof1
Idioms and Phrases
- go through the roof,
- to increase beyond all expectations:
Foreign travel may very well go through the roof next year.
- Also hit the roof, Informal. to lose one's temper; become extremely angry.
- raise the roof, Informal.
- to create a loud noise:
The applause raised the roof.
- to complain or protest noisily:
He'll raise the roof when he sees that bill.
More idioms and phrases containing roof
In addition to the idiom beginning with roof , also see go through the roof ; hit the ceiling (roof) ; like a cat on hot bricks (a hot tin roof) ; raise the roof .Example Sentences
For now the cottages stand idle by the glass-walled motel office and its rakishly tilted roof.
"I think the one thing as a parent, you just put a roof over your children's head," Sam said.
The inside of the former Victorian toilet block has now been transformed - with fresh painting, new flooring, a brand new roof and heating being installed.
Members of the public will soon be able to see the rarely-seen view from the roof of Blenheim Palace.
The roof of the emergency room had collapsed.
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What Is The Plural Of Roof?
Plural word for roof
The plural form of roof is roofs (not rooves). Roof is not pluralized by replacing the -f ending with -ves, as is done in many other words ending in -f, such as shelf/shelves, scarf/scarves, and hoof/ǴDZ.
The word roof comes from Old English, and like many Old English-derived words ending in -f, it initially had two plural forms: roofs and rooves. It’s not clear why rooves dropped out of use. It might be simply because we don’t use the plural form of roof very often, compared to more common words like leaf/leaves. Other examples of this pluralization pattern include proof/proofs, chief/chiefs, and brief/briefs.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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