(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.
Unroof
Definition:
(v. t.) To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopic unroofing of small müllerian duct cysts appears to be the treatment of choice in young males in whom there is concern for preserving fertility and potency.
(2) The principal deviation from previously described operative techniques is that after identification of appropriate landmarks, the internal auditory canal is first unroofed in its medial portion near the porus rather than following the facial nerve to the fundus of the canal.
(3) For larger exposure of the artery, the foramen transversarium of C1 must be unroofed and the artery dissected in the guttering of the posterior arch of the atlas.
(4) Twenty-eight consecutive patients with infected pancreatic necrosis were managed by extensive unroofing of the superior retroperitoneum, blunt pancreatic sequestrectomy, laparotomy pad packing of the lesser sac over a layer of Adaptic gauze, and scheduled re-explorations at intervals of 2-3 days (open drainage).
(5) Experience with such a case suggests that if the lesion also is visualized endoscopically, transurethral unroofing should be the initial choice of management.
(6) At reoperation on the next day, a partially unroofed coronary sinus was recognized and repaired through a left atriotomy.
(7) Seventeen patients were treated with simple unroofing without complication.
(8) A 36-year-old women with pure unroofed coronary sinus syndrome was reported.
(9) We report the successful management of bilateral seminal vesicle abscesses with transurethral unroofing and drainage of the abscess cavities.
(10) Two technical points are emphasized: 1) optic nerve decompression should be wide and include not only unroofing of the canal but also drilling along both sides of the optic nerve, and 2) the thick, irregular, and highly domed orbital roof should be smoothed down by high-speed drilling to facilitate surgical exposure with minimal retraction of the frontal lobe.
(11) Because of the rapid rise in bilirubin level, relief of supposed obstruction of intrahepatic bile ducts was attempted by unroofing the hepatic cysts.
(12) This pneumatocele was unroofed and the fistula was temponaded by pericranial muscles and the Gelfomas sealed by tissue glue.
(13) Endoscopic incision or open unroofing of a ureterocele was performed in 40 children between 1 day and 15 years old.
(14) In three small infants, unsuccessful attempts were made to unroof pulmonary cysts through the thoracoscope and one patient underwent a talc poudrage.
(15) This report presents a comparison of the complications of surgical exploration with unroofing and renal cyst puncture.
(16) Limited unroofing of the right eye proved to be inadequate and only with additional extensive temporal decompression was the disk edema of the left eye reversed.
(17) There have been no cases of late obstruction at the site of unroofing among 10 patients who underwent the fenestration procedure suggested by Van Praagh.
(18) After unroofing the ureterocele, the retracted, gaping ureteric ostium is advanced and fixed medially to the center of the bladder trigone with three 5-0 polyglycolic acid sutures.
(19) In 6 patients, 5 of whom had situs ambiguous, the unroofed coronary sinus was associated with complex congenital heart disease, and in 5 there was a L(contralateral) SVC.
(20) Each patient responded to unroofing of the cyst wall with either concomitant external or internal drainage.