Roof Definition Oxford Dictionary

1 material for constructing a building s roof.

Roof definition oxford dictionary.

To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. The rain woke him hammering on the roof. To put a roof on a building. To cover something with a 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. Go through the roof. A car with a vinyl roof. Put the luggage on the roof of the car.

The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. An upper limit. Roof of your mouth the top of the inside of your mouth.

The top covering of a vehicle oven or other structure the roof of a car. The covering that forms the top of a building vehicle etc. Roof something in over the shopping centre is not roofed over. In combination the rooftop.

Tim climbed on to the garage roof. Roof something with in something their cottage was roofed with green slate. The top of an underground space such as a tunnel or cave the roof of the tunnel was starting to collapse. Anatomy any structure that covers an organ or part the roof of the mouth.

Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. The car rolled onto its roof trapping him. 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.

The roof upper surface of the cave is 50 metres up. Material used for a roof. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. Houses in villages are commonly rectangular and are dried mud bamboo or red brick structures with thatch roofs.

The cave had a very low roof. Roofed in adjectives having the type of roof mentioned flat roofed buildings. Countable noun the roof of your mouth is the highest part of the inside of your mouth. The house has a sloping flat tiled thatched roof.

Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. The cover of a building. The highest point. The roof of a car or other vehicle is the top part of it which protects passengers or goods from the weather.

1 the structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle. As modifier a roof garden. Entry 1 of 2 1 a 1.