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
Black Buffalo expects to wrap up printing the house Thursday afternoon, and Boxer Property plan to have a ribbon cutting in the fall once the roof and interior construction is complete.—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024 Inspect your shutters, roof and fences in case repairs or replacements are needed.—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
Verb
There are two elements to roof maintenance costs: the roof inspection and the roof repairs.—Sara Kendall, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024 During his lifetime in the sixth and seventh centuries, early Muslim leaders issued calls from its doorway or roof to summon believers to prayer.—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 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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