roof
/ɹuːf/noun, verb1 syllable
Roof means: an upper limit on what is allowed.
Synonyms for roof5
What does roof mean?5
noun
1
an upper limit on what is allowed“he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him”
2
a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
3
protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
4
the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space“the roof of the cave was very high”
verb
1
provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with roof?6
Roof in a sentence
- There can be walls without a roof, but no roof without walls.darinmex
- There wasn't a hurricane, but the house doesn't have a roof.astynk
- When the wind blew part of our roof off, we started worrying.CK
- As you can see, the roof needs to be replaced.CK
- In this parking place, the trailer would bump into the roof.Amittai
- Thanks to their branches, twigs, and leaves, the trees form as a roof.Eccles17
- The lava punctured the boat's roof, leaving a gaping hole.Hybrid
- The house is dilapidated, and the roof is leaking.AlanF_US
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Forms of roof
as a noun
- plural
- roofs
as a verb
- past tense
- roofed
- present participle
- roofing
- third-person singular
- roofs
- past participle
- roofed