roof
(ruːf )
Word forms: roofspronunciation note: The plural can be pronounced (ruːfs ) or (ruːvz ).
1. countable noun A2
The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather.
...a small stone cottage with a red slate roof.
A pail stood in one corner of the room to catch the drips where the roof leaked.
2. countable noun A2
The roof of a car or other vehicle is the top part of it, which protects passengers or goods from the weather.
The car rolled onto its roof, trapping him.
3. countable noun
The roof of your mouth is the highest part of the inside of your mouth.
She clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth. [+ of]
4. countable noun
The roof of an underground space such as a cave or mine is the highest part of it.
The cave roof collapsed.
5. go through the roof phrase
If the level of something such as the price of a product or the rate of inflation goes through the roof, it suddenly increases very rapidly indeed. [informal]
Prices for Korean art have gone through the roof.
6. to hit the roof phrase
If you hit the roof or go through the roof, you become very angry indeed, and usually show your anger by shouting at someone. [informal]
Sergeant Long will hit the roof when I tell him you've gone off.
7. roof over one's head phrase [head inflects] B2
If you have a roof over your head, you have somewhere to live.
I am just thankful that we have a roof over our heads.
8. to raise the roof phrase
If a group of people inside a building raise the roof, they make a very loud noise, for example by singing or shouting.
He raised the roof when he sang his own version of the national anthem.
9. under one roof/under the same roof phrase B2
If a number of things or people are under one roof or under the same roof, they are in the same building.
The firms intend to open together under one roof.
...the strains brought about by three generations living under the same roof.
10. under sb's roof phrase [PHRASE after verb, verb-link PHRASE]
If something happens under your roof, it happens in your home.
Lionel has forbidden her ever to mention that name again under his roof.
Vocabulary Builder
HOUSE: EXTERIOR roof chimney window aerial shutter gutter gate drainpipe gable front door garage driveway Idioms:
go through the roof
if the level of something such as the price of a product goes through the roof, it suddenly increases very rapidly
House prices were going through the roof.
to suddenly become very angry, and usually show your anger by shouting at someone
I admitted I had ordered a racing car, and found myself in terrible trouble. He went through the roof!
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raise the roof
to make a very loud noise, for example by cheering, singing, or shouting
Best audience I've ever had in my life – they practically raised the roof.
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Collocations:
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A couple had a miraculous escape yesterday when a gas explosion blew the roof off their home.
The Sun (2010)
The ferocious storm overturned lorries, closed major ports and blew the roofs off buildings.
The Sun (2012)
One house had its roof blown off and walls almost entirely destroyed.
The Sun (2017)
He drove an old green Land Rover with a canvas roof and an eagle design on the spare wheel cover.
The Sun (2009)
He leapt onto a lorry in Calais and cut through the canvas roof to hide inside.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
And now it comes with a full-length folding canvas roof so you can enjoy the sunshine at a touch of button.
The Sun (2013)
Cars with an electric folding roof are the most sought after.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The rudimentary manually folding roof could really only be enjoyed by the rear passengers.
The Sun (2016)
It's roomy, with a folding metal roof and a reasonably sized boot, especially when the roof is up.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I climbed up a wall and over a garage roof and a shed.
The Sun (2014)
Some people stranded on a garage roof were rescued by boat.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The snow had slid off her garage roof.
The Sun (2006)
Does your children's school still have a leaky roof?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The homes were wrecks, with boarded-up doors and leaky roofs.
The Sun (2015)
Dozens of people had leaky roofs fixed or heating installed.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But the cost of fitting a folding metal roof has rendered the car utterly useless.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It's roomy, with a folding metal roof and a reasonably sized boot, especially when the roof is up.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A large part of the metal roof of the train had caved in under the impact.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
All we had to do was to repair the roof.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is dangerous to repair the roof of a house in the middle of a storm.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Now, the roof is repaired, there's a brand-new toilet block and a computer room.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The roof was ripped clean off and left lying on the road.
The Sun (2008)
While filming Jurassic Park a hurricane struck, ripping the roof off the hut where the cast were sheltering.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Terrified residents watched as roofs were ripped off, chimneys crashed down and trees were uprooted.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The leadcovered wood structure, 93 metres tall, crashed on to the transept, bringing down the roof timbers at the height of last year's fire.
Times,Sunday Times
When we bought a house two years ago, the surveyors reported evidence of wood-boring beetles in the roof timbers.
Times, Sunday Times
Consider insulating under your roof timbers, too, or the roof could get damp.
The Sun
Dry rot in the roof timbers was also treated.
Times,Sunday Times
It's a thrill to find the main bedroom set beneath the magnificent roof timbers of a 32ft great hall, with four sturdy arched trusses.
Times, Sunday Times
An operator cut a vital steel support beams on a roof truss.
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Interior embellishments such as the exposed roof truss were left intact.
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For a roof truss, the diagonal members are called rafters, and the horizontal member may serve as a ceiling joist.
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The fire that was thus started destroyed the roof truss, with the water from the firehoses also leaving stains.
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Slippage of a slip critical joint in a roof truss could result in unintended ponding effects.
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Second, a small fan motor blows out hot air from the roof vent on top of the clock.
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Unfortunately, they spent more on the mechanics than expected, and had to put in roof vents to get more light inside.
Times, Sunday Times
The main area can be closed off at both ends and reacts to the weather outdoors through a sequence of programmed louvers and roof vents.
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Another example would be the emissions from an automobile paint shop with multiple roof vents or multiple open windows.
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In less populated areas with good air movement dissolution and dispersal techniques for odour management may be employed i.e. ventilation from high points such as a chimney or roof vents.
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The cabin has a stone and concrete floor, log walls, and a wood shake roof.
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The schoolhouse was a simple one-room building with no floor and a shake roof.
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An oak board porch with a wood shake roof was later constructed on top of this dock.
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Inside were three holes, while outside was shiplap siding and a cedar shake roof.
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The cabin has saddle-notched corners and a wood shake roof which abuts the cliff face.
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The house - built of stone, with a pitched slate roof - has 1,560 sq ft of living space.
Times, Sunday Times
It's an attractive building with a smart red-brick frontage and tall chimney stacks, large windows and a slate roof.
Times, Sunday Times
It had a porch over the front door, which nobody ever used, and a red slate roof that came halfway down the house.
Times, Sunday Times
The slate roof on the house had to be replaced and the electrics in the loft and bedroom had to be reinstated.
Times, Sunday Times
Though structurally the house appears sound and well maintained, with a new slate roof, inside you step into another era.
Times, Sunday Times
There was so much snow piled on the steep roof that it might slide down and bury me, she warned.
Times, Sunday Times
The steep roof of the building with its clock tower was removed, and the glazed front elevation reconstructed.
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The steep roof has a gable at one end and a hip roof at the other.
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The house has the characteristic asymetric design with a steep roof and bay windows that are characteristic of the style.
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The western gate, flanked by two buttresses, finishes with a very sharp curve which supports a very steep roof.
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A huge brick column rises through the centre of the space and fans out above your head to support the roof.
Times, Sunday Times
Because the pillars are there simply to support the roof, rather than to absorb the impact of hitting a bridge, they are thin and spidery.
Times, Sunday Times
The check-in and baggage reclaim areas are underneath the runway apron and hundreds of marble pillars support the roof.
Times, Sunday Times
They are rather like splendid maypoles that go right through the fabric of the property and support the roof.
Times, Sunday Times
The criss-cross timbers that support the roof have been left exposed.
Times, Sunday Times
A storm had also torn off the roof of the main tower and damaged the vaults within.
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During that time, in 1955, the building suffered some serious flood damage, tearing off the roof of the first front porch.
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Winds tore off the roof of a shelter for special needs people in an elementary school.
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After destroying the home, the tornado caused major damage to the upper portion of another home and tore off the roof of another.
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He leaned back against one of the wooden pillars which were supporting the thatch roof.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR (2001)
There's a thatched roof with exposed beams, and polished hardwood floors.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It was a squat pink construction with louvred doors and a thatched roof.
YELLOW BIRD
Ours also came with an enormous outdoor bathroom, with a sunken bath under its own thatched roof.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Her red tiled roof was blown off.
The Sun (2009)
Broken beams hung down from the tiled roof.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
And why was a flat roof allowed to replace the more reliable sloping tiled roof that was there?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Above me is an enormous vaulted wooden roof.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A huge bathroom has a sunken bath, the drawing room a vaulted roof.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Setting the balcony back under the vaulted roof would be more discreet, but would limit the views to the woods only.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Translations:
Chinese: 屋顶
Japanese: 屋根
- all right
- all-round
- all round
- all-rounder
- all-round performance
- all sb ever does
- all-seater
- all's fair in love and war
- all-singing all-dancing
- all-singing, all-dancing
- all smiles
- all sorts
- allspice
- allspice berry
- all-star
- all-star cast
- all-star team
- all sweetness and light
- all that
- all that glitters is not gold
- all the best
- all the better
- all the more
- all the rest of it
- all the same