roof
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Is roof a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.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."Synonyms: rooftop, tect, thatch
2. (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
3. (climbing) An overhanging rock wall.
4. (slang, archaic) A hat.Examples: "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."archaicslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.Examples: "A trench about ten feet deep was dug in the ground and roofed over with sticks and earth so as to form a dark tunnel."transitive
2. (transitive, slang) To put into prison, to bird.Examples: "Did you see them, David? I mean, did you see them looking at me? I-I'm walking out of the court, and everybody was practically – yeah, they were gawking. […] I mean, Noah roofed me, I proved it, end of story."; "I’m open, hype off the chronic I was smoking, feeling zooted That Brooklyn shit got me stupid I’m loose, kid – that’s what the overproof did What the ruck you looking at, son? You’ll get roofed, kid!"; "Inhale the mystical, the blue shit See me on the stoop shit, act stupid at the park, the ball, get roofed Baby see the cops, the drugs, she boofed it Foie gras at every meal, that means I triple-goosed it"slangtransitive
3. (transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.Examples: "They reached him: the pieces of rock had roofed him over—he was without injury or scratch."; "It built him softly round, it roofed him warmly over, it rested, all so firm, on selection."transitive
name (English)
1. (astronomy) A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius and Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.Synonyms: Rooftop
Definition source: Wiktionary