roof
verb
- put a roof on
noun
- top covering of a building
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹuːf/ / /ɹʊf/ / /ɹʉf/
name
Etymology: * As an English surname, spelling variant of Rolfe. * As a German surname, from a personal name ultimately derived from Proto-West Germanic *hrōþi (“fame, glory, renown”); also Americanized from Ruff, itself shortened from Rudolf (and from the same root).
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English rof, from Old English hrōf (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”). Cognate with Scots ruif (“roof, ceiling”), Dutch roef (“cabin on a boat”), Icelandic hróf (“shed”), Irish cró (“pen, barn, cabin”), Proto-Slavic *stropъ (“roof, ceiling”). Compare Faroese rógv (“something high up”).
- The external covering at the top of a building.
“The roof was blown off by the tornado.”
“'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.”
- The top external level of a building.
“Let's go up to the roof.”
“When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space On the roof, it's peaceful as can be And there, the world below can't bother me...”
- The upper part of a cavity.
“The palate is the roof of the mouth.”
“As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.”
- The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- An overhanging rock wall.
- A hat.
“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.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English rofen, roven (“to roof”), from the noun (see above).
- To cover or furnish with a roof.
“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.”
- To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
- To put into prison, to bird.
“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!”
- To shelter as if under a roof.
“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.”