Word Finder - roof

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The external covering at the top of a building.

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The roof was blown off by the tornado.

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The top external level of a building.

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Let's go up to the roof.

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The upper part of a cavity.

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The palate is the roof of the mouth.

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The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

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(rockclimbing) An overhanging rock wall

He tapped the roof of his truck with his fingernails.

A metal roof replaced the old shingles.

It would take a lot of money to repair the roof and erase the water damage.

Thunder exploded and then the hail started, drumming on the roof like large marbles.

The crowd was evidently watching for the roof to fall in, and Alpatych watched for it too.

You're living under the same roof.

On the roof? asked the girl.

The rain on the roof was soothing.

It roared on the tin roof and plunged off the eves, where the wind caught it and drove it across the yard in horizontal sheets.

Ully cursed as he moved to seek cover from the downpour.  Safe beneath his jungle roof, Toby watched him.  The brave, cheerful Ully that sat with him in Hell seemed lost in the underworld, and Toby began to suspect there was another reason their jailer, Jared, had freed them.

If Eden succeeded, Xander died, a fact he didn't learn for many years after she left him writhing in agony on the roof of a tavern.

A swan dive off the roof sounds good right about now.

The child was now taken out to walk on the roof of the Tower.

No matter what she said, getting him back meant financial security - a roof over her head and everything that went along with it.

She strode to the edge of the roof.

Giovanni, dating from 1576, is famous for its rich inlaid marbles, its Brussels tapestries, its roof painted by Matteo Preti (1661-1699), the picture by Michael Angelo da Caravaggio of the beheading of John the Baptist, numerous memorials of the knights and other relics.

The sun reflected across several large dents in the hood and roof.

They went to the edge of the stone roof.

If the ore is in pieces of the size of a walnut Or upwards, it is roasted in plain" kilns "or" burners,"provided with a grating of suitable construction for the removal of the cinders, with a side door in the upper part for charging in the fresh ore on the top of the partially burned ore, and with an arch-shaped roof, from which the burnergas is carried away in a flue common to a whole set of kilns.

Its vaulted roof is a fine specimen of Saracenic brickwork.

The fact of the inclusion of his statue in the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus; the hole cut in the temple roof so that he might be worshipped in the open air as being, like Jupiter, a god of 1 Agathocles was a native of Thermae.

The term is also used generally of a supporting frame or structure, especially in the construction of a roof or a bridge.

It forms gigantic deposits of almost constant thickness, embedded between a floor of limestone and a roof of porphyry.

The separate existence of Aimer, who refused to sleep under a roof, and spent his whole life in warring against the infidel, is proved.

The great hall, with its fine open-timbered oak roof, is adorned with a splendid stained-glass window and several statues of notable men, including one (by Louis Francois Roubiliac) of Duncan Forbes of Culloden, lord president of the court of session (1685-1747), and now forms the ante-room for lawyers and their clients.

The Golden Chapel on the south side is rich late Perpendicular, with a roof of fan-tracery, showing signs of the original decoration in colours.

During the siege of the Acropolis in 1827, the roof of the north portico was thrown down and the building was otherwise much damaged.

The roof is supported on wooden pillars and walls are provided only at the sides.

The parish church of St Mary is Perpendicular, with a fine carved roof of the 17th century.

The surface tramway system of London cannot be complete, as, within an area roughly represented by the boroughs of Chelsea, Kensington and Fulham, the city of Westminster and a considerable district north thereof, and the city of London, the ' Charing Cross station was the scene of a remarkable catastrophe on the 5th of December 1905, when a large part of the roof collapsed, and the falling debris did very serious damage to the Avenue theatre, which stands close to the station at a lower level.

Like most of the lesser apartments, it is lined with white Italian marble, and in spite of its enormous dimensions the roof is unsupported by pillars.

The parish church of St James is a fine Perpendicular building, with a lofty spire, and a beautiful open-work roof over the nave.

There are two western towers, but in the centre a low square tower hardly rises above the pitch of the roof.

The fan-traceried roof, with its carved stone pendants, is the most exquisite architectural feature of the chapel.

Unless such places are carefully dug out or re-puddled before the work of filling is resumed, the percolation may increase along the vertical plane where it is greatest, by the erosion and falling in of the clay roof, as in the other cases cited.

The durbar hall, which is a separate building, is 60 yards long by 20 broad, with a painted roof supported by two rows of pillars.

The elliptical Tabernacle (5870) has a rounded, turtle-shell shaped roof, unsupported by pillars or beams, seats nearly 10,000, and has a large pipe organ (5000 pipes).

The wonderful mosaics, the wooden roof, elaborately fretted and painted, and the marble incrustation of the lower part of the walls and the floor are very fine.

The principal buildings are the church of St Helen, Witton, noted for its finely carved roof of the 17th century, a museum and free library and market house.

The roof of the mouth is formed by the palate, terminating behind by a muscular, contractile arch, having in man and a few other species a median projection called the uvula, beneath which the mouth communicates with the pharynx.

The profusion of turrets, pinnacles, and dormer windows which decorates the roof of this, the chief portion of the château, constitutes the main feature of the exterior, while in the interior are a well-preserved chapel of the 16th century and a famous double staircase, the construction of which permits two people to ascend and descend respectively without seeing one another.

Wires are frequently stretched across a room overhead, probably with the idea that they will prevent the voice from reaching the roof and being reflected there, but there is no reason to suppose that they are efficient.

Noticeable for its high roof, low tower and dwarf spire, the church consists of an aisleless nave, chancel (adorned with Chantrey's statue of the 1st duke) and transepts.

The fine wooden roof of the interior is by Antonio da Sangallo the younger (1519-25).

Outside, the rain drummed wildly on the roof.

Suddenly a man appeared through a hole in the roof next to the one they were on and stepped into plain view.

The man had taken a step or two across the glass roof before he noticed the presence of the strangers; but then he stopped abruptly.

He reached the edge of the tall roof, stepped one foot out into the air, and walked into space as calmly as if he were on firm ground.

The girl, greatly astonished, ran to lean over the edge of the roof, and saw the man walking rapidly through the air toward the ground.

So, with a snort and a neigh and a whisk of his short tail he trotted off the roof into the air and at once began floating downward to the street.