Meaning of roof | Babel Free

Definitions

1. ceiling
2. The external covering at the top of a building.
3. A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius and Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
4. A surname.
5. The top external level of a building.
6. first-person singular present indicative of techar
7. The upper part of a cavity.
8. The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
9. An overhanging rock wall.
10. A hat.
    archaic, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The roof was blown off by the tornado.”

“'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.”

“The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof (Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.”

“The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! We don't need no water: Let the motherfucker burn! Burn, motherfucker, burn!”

“Let's go up to the roof.”

“When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space On the roof, it's peaceful as can be And there, the world below can't bother me...”

“The palate is the roof of the mouth.”

“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.”

“Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.”

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