roof

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[edit] English

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Tiled roofs covering buildings

[edit] Etymology

From Old English hrōf, from Proto-Germanic *hrōfa, from Proto-Indo-European *kropo-.

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[edit] Noun

roof (plural roofs or rooves)

  1. the cover at top of a building
  2. the upper part of a cavity
    The palate is the roof of the mouth.
    Archaeologists discovered that the cave's roof was decked with paintings.
    • 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, BBC Sport:
      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.

[edit] Usage notes

  • The plural rooves is uncommon and is usually considered incorrect in American English.
  • In referring to the top of a building, refers both to the object itself (“the roof was blown off in the tornado”) and to the location of being on the roof (“it can be dangerous to go on the roof to fix the antenna”). In the later sense (of “location”) it is often used attributively, largely interchangeably with rooftop.

[edit] Synonyms

  • (cover at top of building): rooftop, tect (obsolete, rare)

[edit] Derived terms

Terms derived from roof (noun)

[edit] Translations

the cover at the top of a building
the upper part of a cavity

[edit] Verb

roof (third-person singular simple present roofs, present participle roofing, simple past and past participle roofed)

  1. to cover or furnish with a roof

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to cover or furnish with a roof

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[edit] Noun

roof m. (plural roven, diminutive roofje)

  1. robbery, robbing, banditry

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roof

  1. first-person singular present indicative of roven.
  2. imperative of roven.
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