ceiling
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈsiːlɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
- Homophone: sealing
- Hyphenation: ceil‧ing
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English celing (“paneling; (bed) cover or hanging”), from celen (“to cover or panel walls”) (from Old French celer (“to conceal”)) + -ing (gerund-forming suffix).
Noun[edit]
ceiling (plural ceilings)
- The overhead closure of a room.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[1]:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
- The dining room had an ornate ceiling.
- The upper limit of an object or action.
- 2008, N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics (volume 1, page 114)
- Market forces naturally move the economy to the equilibrium, and the price ceiling has no effect on the price or the quantity sold.
- 2008, N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics (volume 1, page 114)
- (aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft can safely maintain flight.
- (meteorology) The measurement of visible distance from ground or sea level to an overcast cloud cover; under a clear sky, the ceiling measurement is identified as "unlimited."
- Even though it was cloudy, there was still enough ceiling for the Blue Angels to perform a great show.
- (mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.
- The ceiling of 4.5 is 5; the ceiling of −4.5 is −4.
- (nautical) The inner planking of a vessel.
- (finance) The maximum permitted level in a financial transaction.
- (architecture) The overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.
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Translations[edit]
upper limit of room
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upper limit of an object or action
altitude
smallest integer
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inner planking of a vessel
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Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
ceiling
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