roof
/ɹuːf/ noun A2- The external covering at the top of a building. · The roof was blown off by the tornado.
- The top external level of a building. · Let's go up to the roof.
- The upper part of a cavity. · The palate is the roof of the mouth.
- The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- An overhanging rock wall.
Plural roofs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And warmly on the roof it looks,
There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!” She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
catch hold of this rope—Will the roof bear?—Mind that loose slate—Oh, it’s coming down!
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