Noun
the roof of a car
The roof of the old barn collapsed.
He bit into a hot slice of pizza and burned the roof of his mouth. Verb
fed and roofed the emergency volunteers for a week
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The 60-foot-thick granite roof regulates the temperature so the home stays cool in the summer and warm in the winter.—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024 At multiple points throughout the video, the man is seen continuing to throw pieces of furniture off the roof, putting his arms up in the air, screaming and waving to onlookers, and getting into arguments with bystanders yelling at him from several floors below.—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
Verb
The employee was attaching the panels to roof brackets using a drill/driver, according to OSHA.—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024 The best way to figure out what your roof maintenance will cost is to get quotes from roofing pros.—Sara Kendall, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for roof
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English hrōf; akin to Old Norse hrōf roof of a boathouse and perhaps to Old Church Slavonic stropŭ roof
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)
: the vaulted upper boundary of the mouth supported largely by the palatine bones and limited anteriorly by the dental lamina and posteriorly by the uvula and upper part of the fauces
2
: a covering structure of any of various parts of the body other than the mouth
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