ceiling

English[edit]

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ceiling

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈsiːlɪŋ/
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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.
(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.

Synonyms[edit]

ceil (poetic)
(mathematics): ceil

Antonyms[edit]

floor

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

upper limit of room

Afrikaans: plafon
Albanian: tavan (sq) m, lëpozë (sq) f
Arabic: سَقْف‎ m (saqf)
Egyptian Arabic: سقف‎ m (saʔf)

Hijazi Arabic: سَقْف‎ m (sagf)
Armenian: առաստաղ (hy) (aṙastał), (rare) առիք (hy) (aṙikʿ)
Old Armenian: ձեղուն (jełun)
Azerbaijani: tavan (az)
Bashkir: түшәм (tüşäm); (Eastern) һайғаҡ (hayğaq), түпә (tüpä), түбәтаҡта (tübätaqta)
Basque: sabai (eu)
Belarusian: столь m (stolʹ)
Bengali: ছাদ (bn) (chad)
Brunei Malay: siling
Bulgarian: тава́н (bg) m (taván)
Burmese: မျက်နှာကြက် (my) (myakhna-krak)
Catalan: sostre (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᏯᎦᏢ (ayagatlv)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 天花板 (tin¹ faa¹ baan²)

Mandarin: 天花板 (zh) (tiānhuābǎn), 天棚 (zh) (tiānpéng)
Chuvash: путалӑх (put̬alăh)
Cornish: nen
Crimean Tatar: tavan
Czech: strop (cs) m
Danish: loft (da) n
Dutch: plafond (nl) n, zoldering (nl) f
Esperanto: plafono
Estonian: lagi (et)
Faroese: loft n
Finnish: katto (fi), sisäkatto (fi), laipio (fi)
French: plafond (fr) m
Galician: teito (gl) m, ceo (gl) m
Georgian: ჭერი (č̣eri)
German: Decke (de) f
Greek: οροφή (el) f (orofí), ταβάνι (el) n (taváni)
Ancient: ὀροφή f (orophḗ)
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Haitian Creole: plafon
Hausa: silin
Hebrew: תִּקְרָה‎ (he) f (tik'ráh)
Hindi: छत (hi) f (chat)
Hungarian: mennyezet (hu), plafon (hu)
Icelandic: loft (is) n
Ido: plafono (io)
Indonesian: langit-langit, plafon (id)
Irish: síleáil f
Italian: soffitto (it) m
Japanese: 天井 (ja) (てんじょう, tenjō)
Kazakh: төбе (kk) (töbe), шек (şek)
Khmer: ពិតាន (km) (pitaan)
Korean: 천장(天障) (ko) (cheonjang)
Kyrgyz: потолок (potolok), шып (ky) (şıp)
Ladino: taván, techo
Lao: ເພດານ (lo) (phē dān), ພິດານ (phi dān), ປະຕຸລາ (pa tu lā)
Latgalian: grīsti, viersejuo greida
Latin: lacunar n
Latvian: griesti
Lithuanian: lubos f pl
Macedonian: таван m (tavan)
Malay: siling (ms)
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Maltese: saqaf m
Marathi: छत (chat)
Mongolian: тааз (mn) (taaz), адар (mn) (adar)
Northern Sami: rohpi
Norwegian: tak (no) n
Bokmål: himling m or f, tak (no) n, loft (no) n
Occitan: plafon (oc) m
Oriya: please add this translation if you can
Pashto: سقف‎ (saqf)
Persian: سقف‎ (fa) (saqf)
Plautdietsch: Bän m
Polish: sufit (pl) m, strop (pl) m
Portuguese: teto (pt) m
Romanian: plafon (ro) n, tavan (ro) n
Russian: потоло́к (ru) m (potolók)
Scottish Gaelic: mullach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: плафон m, строп m

Roman: plafon (sh) m, strop (sh) m
Slovak: strop m
Slovene: strop (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wjerch m
Spanish: techo (es) m, cielorraso m (mostly Latin America), cielo raso m, plafón (es) m (Puerto Rico)
Swahili: dari (sw)
Swedish: tak (sv), innertak (sv) n
Tagalog: kisame
Tajik: шифт (šift), сақф (saqf)
Tatar: түшәм (tt) (tüşäm)
Telugu: లోకప్పు (te) (lōkappu)
Thai: เพดาน (th) (pee-daan)
Turkish: tavan (tr)
Turkmen: potolok
Ukrainian: сте́ля f (stélja)
Urdu: چھت‎ f (chat)
Uyghur: تورۇس‎ (torus), شىپ‎ (ship)
Uzbek: shift (uz), potolok
Vietnamese: trần (vi), trần nhà
Volapük: nufed (vo)
Walloon: plafon (wa) m
Welsh: nenfwd m, nenfydau pl
Yiddish: סופֿיט‎ (yi) m (sufit), סטעליע‎ f (stelye)

upper limit of an object or action

Bulgarian: горна граница f (gorna granica)
Finnish: katto (fi)
French: plafond (fr) m
Hungarian: plafon (hu)
Indonesian: plafon (id), pagu (id)
Polish: pułap (pl) m
Swedish: tak (sv) n

altitude

Bulgarian: таван (bg) m (tavan)
Finnish: lakikorkeus (fi)
Greek: υψόμετρο (el) n (ypsómetro)
Khmer: ពិតាន (km) (pidaan)
Polish: pułap (pl) m
Portuguese: teto (pt) m
Russian: потоло́к (ru) m (potolók)
Spanish: techo (es) m

smallest integer

Czech: horní celá část f
Finnish: ylös pyöristetty luku
French: partie entière par excès (fr) f
Japanese: 天井関数 (tenjō kansū)
Norwegian: tak (no) n
Polish: sufit (pl) m
Russian: потоло́к (ru) m (potolók)
Swedish: tak (sv) n

inner planking of a vessel

Finnish: sisälankutus, karneeraus

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]