dome
noun
- architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /dəʊm/
name
Etymology: Various origins: * English occupational surname for a judge, from Old English dēma (“judge”). * Borrowed from French Dome, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Hungarian Döme, a hypocoristic form of the personal name Demeter.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.
- A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
“geodesic dome”
- Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
“a cake dome”
“lava dome”
- A person's head.
“Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.”
“Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome”
- head, oral sex
“Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.”
- A building; a house; an edifice.
“pleasure dome”
“Approach the dome, the social banquet share.”
- Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
“steam dome”
- A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- A press stud or snap fastener.
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.
- To give a domed shape to.
“The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]”
“[…] the general effect being to dome the cover upward at least 1,000 and probably 2,000 feet, and to metamorphose the limy sediments into hornstones […]”
- To shoot in the head.
“That guy just got domed!”
“You can get hit with the fifth / Twisted with the biscuit / Blasted with the ratchet / Jacked with the MAC / Bodied with the shotty / Dumped with the pump / Rocked with the Glock / Sprayed with the 'K / Domed with the chrome”
- To perform fellatio on.