(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.
Solarium
Definition:
(n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.
(n.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(2) The latter procedure, however, appeared to prevent changes in blood lymphocyte subsets that are induced by solarium radiation as well as the reduction in Langerhans cell numbers in skin biopsies taken after exposure to solarium radiation.
(3) We have previously shown that UVR from sun or solarium beds may induce systemic effects in human subjects.
(4) Because risk increases with the approximate square of annual solarium exposure, it is not possible to define a 'safe' level of exposure.
(5) Application of the sunscreen agent also did not protect against effects of solarium exposure on recall antigen skin tests and immunoglobulin production in vitro in pokeweed mitogen-stimulated cultures of B and T cells.
(6) Instead, it is shown that weekly use of a UVA solarium from age 20 until middle age (40-50) gives a relative cumulative incidence of 1.3 compared with non-users of sun beds and sun canopies.
(7) In the present study we tried to determine whether the effects on NK cell activity were caused by the UVB or the UVA components of radiation from solarium lamps by filtering out UVB with Mylar sheeting.
(8) Another patient with a solarium-pseudoporphyria is presented, and a review of the cases published so far is given.
(9) The risk of non-melanoma skin cancer in northern Europeans who indulge in sunbathing or use a UVA solarium was estimated using a mathematical model of skin cancer incidence that makes allowance for childhood, occupational and recreational sun exposure.
(10) The highest daily doses were equivalent to the doses received during one session in a commercial solarium.
(11) Previous studies have shown that ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from solarium lamps suppressed natural killer (NK) cell activity in the blood and that sunscreen lotions offered no protection against this effect.
(12) We are truly talking about trivial costs when UV protection is contrasted to what people spend on getting extra UV exposure at the solarium, spa, ski slopes, beach, mountains, etc.
(13) Groups of 12 normal subjects were exposed to radiation from solarium lamps after application of a sunscreen agent or the base used in its preparation.
(14) In subjects hypersensitive to nickel we have investigated local and systemic effect of whole body exposure of cumulative suberythema UVB doses as well as solarium-UVA exposure.
(15) The use of a UVA solarium is also shown to increase the risk of skin cancer.
(16) NK cell activity was depressed in the group exposed to solarium radiation and this was not prevented by filtration through Mylar.
(17) Bogn Engiadina, which celebrates its 20th anniversary next year, is a huge spa with six indoor and outdoor pools, steam room, solarium, sauna and fitness centre, drawing visitors in winter and summer.
(18) "The facilities include a sauna, solarium and video studio."