(n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
(n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
(n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
(v. t.) To cover with a roof.
(v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(2) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
(3) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(4) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
(5) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(6) For the roof, different odorants produced different activity patterns, which had profiles not simply described as regions of maximal and minimal responsiveness.
(7) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
(8) They were about to put the roof on it,” Hickman said.
(9) Just one problem (apart from the old roof falling off): it's 60 miles from my desk.
(10) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
(11) I have to put a roof over my son’s head.” Junior doctors will be balloted to decide whether to strike over a radical new contract imposed on them by the Department of Health, which redefines their normal working week to include Saturday and removes overtime rates for work between 7pm and 10pm every day except Sunday.
(12) Hydrogen sulfide poisoning from inhalation of roofing asphalt fumes is a rare but devastating injury.
(13) The keratinocytes of the blister roof showed aggregation of the tonofibrils at the periphery, and vacuolization of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.
(14) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
(15) Glasgow Central station was also closed to the public after flying debris shattered part of the building's glass roof.
(16) Berkeley has launched a new design called the Urban House, a three-storey house with a private roof garden instead of a back garden.
(17) Now the fabric of the school is visibly crumbling: roofs leak and skylights are broken; the estimated cost of repairs is £1m.
(18) I went inside, and the sound of the rain on the roof and the darkness inside made me very afraid.
(19) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(20) The operative method involves removal of portions of the orbital rim, orbital roof, and sphenoid bone.
Roofer
Definition:
(n.) One who puts on roofs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost all of Moscow’s roofers speak of having a unique relationship with the traffic-clogged, cacophonous city of 12 million inhabitants.
(2) The gang convicted today were: Lea Rusha, 35, a former roofer of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; car salesman Stuart Royle, 49, of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kent; unemployed Jetmir Bucpapa, 26, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; garage owner Roger Coutts, 30, of The Green, Welling, south-east London; and Emir Hysenaj, 28, a Post Office worker, of New Road, Crowborough, East Sussex.
(3) The problem of early degenerative lesions of knee joints in occupational groups of floorers and roofers has been presented.
(4) Roofers and iron foundry workers with high exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) were monitored for levels of covalent PAH serum albumin adducts, quantitated in enzymatically digested samples by a sensitive competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
(5) We’re going home early,” said Shaun Carter, an industrial roofer from Suffolk who was on a break with Claire Clarke.
(6) It’s just churning out energy, year after year.” Last year, I moved to a south-facing house and this summer found a good deal for solar PV: my standard 16 panels cost £4,630 to supply and install, which was done in a day in August by an electrician and two roofers who were recent converts to solar employment.
(7) Writing in Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City, academic Bradley Garrett uses edgework to explain why roofers climb cranes, teeter on the edges of towering structures or hang from insanely high buildings.
(8) This adduct has been found in the DNA of peripheral leukocytes of workers in foundries, aluminum manufacturing plants, roofers, and coke oven plants, and also in cigarette smokers.
(9) With each climb, roofers exploit a city’s architectural flaws to provide an alternative narrative to the one of security and round-the-clock surveillance promoted by the state.
(10) Suzanne Kervin, a bricklayer and roofer, told the TUC women’s conference in March about her experiences as the only woman working “on the tools” in her housing association.
(11) In the biomarker studies 10 of 12 roofers, but only 2 of 12 comparison subjects, had detectable levels of aromatic DNA adducts by 32P-postlabelling assay (p less than 0.01).
(12) It’s a way of finding some space in a 24-hour megapolis.” Trophy shots Prekrasnyy and Zolotov are “roofers”, a group of urban climbers who scale buildings, cranes, bridges and landmarks for breathtaking views of the city, which they capture on camera.
(13) But the 48-year-old former roofer, who turned up at Bolton Citizens Advice Bureau's drop-in advice clinic last month, is anxious.
(14) This article examines the severe eye and skin irritations prevalent among roofers and also explores other issues, such as the potential carcinogenicity of roofing material.
(15) The two non-roofers with detectable adducts had levels at or near the detection limit of 2 adducts per 10(9) nucleotides.
(16) Occupations with a high risk situation for the diabetic himself (like roofer, diver etc.)
(17) The new age Unlike the “old” roofers who came before them — the intrepid climbers whose vertigo-inducing ascents included the Shanghai Tower — the “new age” one are more interested in racking up climbs than adding buildings of towering significance to their list of conquests.
(18) To assess the utility of skin wipes as an index of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), simultaneous skin wipe and breathing zone air samples were obtained for 10 roofers.
(19) "The construction and solar industry work in close partnership, with roofers up and down the country now being trained to install solar electric roof tiles.
(20) A much bigger and faster London-wide programme to upgrade the energy performance of all homes could create up to 15,000 new jobs for builders, joiners, plumbers, electricians, roofers, heating and structural engineers and builders supply merchants.