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单词 roof
释义
roof1 nounroof2 verb
roofroof1 /ruːf $ ruːf, rʊf/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINroof1
Origin:
Old English hrof
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • I left my coffee cup on the roof of the car.
  • We'll need a ladder to get up on the roof.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Above their heads the kites moved with a rustle of wings from the Club roof to the branch of a tree.
  • At King Saud Mosque, Jeddah, we covered a large courtyard with an opening lightweight metal roof.
  • At the last second, he jumped from the saddle and swung on the trailer roof as the horse went in.
  • Four silhouettes with rifles, perched at each corner of the roof.
  • He let it slither down the roof to the building's guttering.
  • Is it too heavy for the roof?
  • Mitchell knew they must look predatory on the spread of the low roof.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto get angry
also get mad American · Mike gets very angry when he loses at tennis.get angry at · You have no right to get mad at me. It's not my fault.
to suddenly become angry, especially after you have been trying not to: · As the argument escalated, Mason lost his temper completely.lose your temper with: · You should never lose your temper with the students - it'll only make things worse.
also go mad British informal to suddenly become very angry: · My father blew his top when I told him I was quitting medical school.· "What happened when you told him you wrecked the car?" "Oh, he hit the roof."· Mom would go crazy if she found out you had started smoking.· I'm going to go nuts if that phone doesn't stop ringing.· When Tommy's new bike was stolen, he had a fit.
also go ape American informal to suddenly become very angry: · If my wife ever finds out about this, she'll go berserk.· Joe went ape when we tried to take the car keys away from him outside the bar.
British informal to start behaving and talking to people in an angry way, especially when other people think this is unreasonable: · She's the sort of boss who gets really stroppy if things aren't done her way.· Mel got a bit stroppy when the maitre d' put us at a table he didn't like.
a place for someone to live
the houses, flats etc within a particular area that are available for or are provided for people to live in: · Most of the housing in the area is sub-standard and nothing is being done to improve it.· The council is making a great effort to provide cheap housing and more public facilities.
formal a place where people can live or stay, including houses, flats, hotels etc: · The holiday costs about £400 for a week's accommodation and flights.student/rented/holiday etc accommodation: · I've been looking in the newspapers for student accommodation but it's all so expensive.
a house, flat etc for people to live in - used especially in advertisements or to talk about large numbers of homes: · They want to build forty luxury homes on a disused railway site.· Between 1945 and 1970 the government built 110,000 new homes for low-paid workers.
a place where you can live - use this especially when this is difficult to get: · I'll stay at my grandmother's at first, until I find somewhere to live.· Students looking for somewhere to live can go the university accommodation service.
informal a place to live - use this especially when you are comparing this with the possibility of not having anywhere to live at all: · It doesn't matter what kind of place it is, at least you'll have a roof over your head.· It's hard to be cheerful when you haven't even got a roof over your head.
also housing estate British an area where houses have all been built together in a planned way: · Jane has her own house on a neat housing estate in the south-east.council estate (=an estate built by the local government, especially to be rented): · They live in a block of flats on a bleak council estate.
American informal a group of houses or apartments usually built with government money for poor people to rent: · Under this proposal, Federal money will no longer go to public housing projects but will go instead directly to the people.· Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project· She says she wants something better for her kids than what she had in the projects.
a group of new buildings that have all been planned and built together on the same piece of land: · New developments are springing up all around the town.
to increase quickly or suddenly
if something such as a price, number, or temperature shoots up , it increases quickly and suddenly: · As long as mortgage rates do not shoot up, property should remain a good investment.shoot up to: · US exports to Mexico have already shot up to 130% since 1985.· A year ago the magazine had a circulation of 150,000, but since then that figure has shot up to an astonishing 2 million.
to increase quickly to a high level: soar into: · Temperatures soared into the nineties.· The cost of a business Website can soar into millions of dollars.soar to: · Last year, the drugs haul soared to 130,00 tablets.· The death toll soars to 376 in Chicago from last week's heat wave.soar by 40%/£300/1 million etc: · In the first year of peace, Lebanon's GDP soared by almost 40%.
also skyrocket if costs, prices, profits, sales etc rocket , they increase very quickly to a very high level: · Interest rates have skyrocketed as credit has become scarce.· Why has the dollar rocketed against the yen in particular?rocket to: · Gold prices rocketed to their highest level since 1983.
informal if prices go through the roof , they increase to an extremely high level: · Following news of increased profits, the company's share price went through the roof.· Sales of Ray-Ban sunglasses went through the roof after Tom Cruise wore them in 'Risky Business'.
if a debt or the cost of something spirals , it increases very quickly and uncontrollably: · Since the project started five years ago, costs have spiralled.· With inflation spiralling out of control, the country was close to economic collapse.
if numbers or prices take off , they begin to increase quickly after a long period when they did not increase: · With the introduction of user-friendly software, home computer sales suddenly took off.· Internet shopping will really take off when people become convinced that it is secure.
WORD SETS
aisle, nounbelfry, nounbiomass, nounbooth, nounbreakwater, nounbridge, nounbridge, verbclapboard, nouncondemn, verbcondo, nounconstructor, nouncourtyard, nouncubicle, nouncupola, noundais, nounderrick, noundes res, noundeveloper, noundevelopment, noundome, noundomed, adjectivedry rot, nounDumpster, noundump truck, nounduplex, nounDutch barn, noundwelling, noundyke, nouneaves, nounelevator, nounescalator, nounestate, nounexit, nounfarmstead, nounfence, nounfirebrick, nounflagged, adjectiveflagstone, nounfortify, verbfoundation stone, nounfountain, nounfreehold, nounglazier, nounglazing, noungrating, noungroin, noungroyne, nounhandrail, nounhousing estate, nounhut, nouninsulation, nounironwork, nounlandscape architect, nounlandscape gardening, nounlevee, nounlisted, adjectivelow-rise, adjectivelychgate, nounmanor, nounmansion, nounmarble, nounmason, nounmasonry, nounminaret, nounmulti-storey, adjectivemulti-storey, nounopen-plan, adjectivepanel, nounpanelled, adjectivepantile, nounpillar, nounplatform, nounportal, nounportcullis, nounprecast, adjectiveprefab, nounprefabricated, adjectivepre-stressed, adjectivepublic works, nounQuonset hut, nounrailing, nounredecorate, verbredevelop, verbrevolving door, nounriser, nounrising damp, nounrivet, nounrood screen, nounroof, nounroom, nounroughcast, nounrow house, nounsalon, nounsash window, nounseawall, nounshelter, nounstanchion, nounstorey, nounstrut, nounsubside, verbsubsidence, nounsubstructure, nounsuperstructure, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbsurveyor, nounswing bridge, nountar, nountar, verbtower, nountriplex, nounurban renewal, nounwatercourse, nounwicket gate, nounwindbreak, nounwindmill, nounyard, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + roof
· She used to sunbathe on the flat roof.
· The path led to a log cabin with a chalet-style sloping roof.
(=with parts that slope down)· a row of garages with tiled pitched roofs.
(=covered with pieces of baked clay)
(=covered with thin pieces of a grey rock)
(=made of dried straw)· She lived in a pretty country cottage with a thatched roof.
(=one that lets rain in)· We needed to fix the leaky roof.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=the top inside part)· He made a clicking sound with his tongue on the roof of his mouth.
· The roof of the tunnel was a foot above his head.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Since we now insulate above loft ceilings and within flat roof structures, the air space above the insulation is cold.· Those buildings include triple deckers with flat roofs and large roofs such as those on department stores and supermarkets.· Flat repairs I want to make sure my flat extension roof is waterproof for winter.· An adobe box is what it is, with flat roof and copper spouts to drain rainwater at either corner.· Roofs, particularly flat roofs, can be damaged as a result of weight of snow lying on them.· Octagonal cupolas covered by flat pitched roofs were still normal crossing space covering.· There had once been an outside staircase leading up to the flat roof but that, too, had collapsed.· The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.
· It's got this great high roof and loads of trains.· He was unbelievably quick, his hands, feet blurs in the high roof wind.· And counting down. 11.59 High upon the roof of the Butcher Building the boy Jonathan was up and about.· Horses need plenty of fresh air, reasonably high roofs for stable air to get away and space to live in!· Hodson favours the Master because of its high roof and low loading height, which makes it easier for the infirm.· How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground?· There is an immense square tower in the centre and a high pitched roof on either side of it.· Guaranteed for ten years, Sarnafil is the high technology, high performance roof of tomorrow.
· It washes over the low roofs of the two-storey terraces and dries the dirt on the pavements.· Mitchell knew they must look predatory on the spread of the low roof.· The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end.· The façades are in three stages in black and white marble, surmounted by a low roof and lantern.· This necessitated having a low roof and a side gangway in the upper saloon, reminiscent of the old low-bridge buses.
· We had to staple a polythene vapour barrier to the rafters of a pitched roof.· Timber fascias and barge-boards are standard, while many pitched roof garages feature timber-clad gable ends.· Octagonal cupolas covered by flat pitched roofs were still normal crossing space covering.· The traditional greenhouse shape is a rectangular floor area, near-upright sides and a pitched roof.· High pitched roofs contain the typical ornamental dormers.· It has rubble-stone walls and its steeply pitched roofs make the granite-capped chimneys seem all the higher.· But Ireland is like four pitched roofs built around a central depression.· The late Gothic façades are surmounted with steeply pitched roofs containing tall dormer windows.
· All the medieval buildings were torn down and replaced by stone built ones, with red pantiled roofs.· Outside, the storm lashed the windows, there was nothing to be seen of the sea or the red roofs.· On the floor I saw a toy steam shovel with black sides and a red roof.· The curator has a house downstream there, among the trees - you can see the red roof.· The traditional houses of the living are low to the ground, topped by red tiled roofs.· You can see peeps of the red roof across the fields beyond the chalets.· Oh, sure, you see red tile roofs in Rancho Bernardo and brilliant tile work in Balboa Park fountains and buildings.
· It had a newly thatched roof and was enclosed inside a privet hedge.· Green grass sprouted from the mouldy, neglected thatched roofs.· Nobody was hurt but the thatched roof, and a quantity of hay and peat were destroyed.· The evidence suggests that almost all the village houses in earlier days were built of dried mud with thatched roofs.· Memorable village scenes are created by these traditional building materials, often capped with a thatched roof.· The thatched roof of the lodge creaked as if mourning over the dreadful secrets of the priory.· There is also a hut with a thatched roof and beside it a store room of split poles.· It has a thatched roof over it.
· These timber-framed houses in Northampton Street, with their plastered elevations and tiled roofs, make a quite delightful contrast.· They are permanent construction with cavity walls and tiled roofs to housing specifications.· They passed a small, red-brick house with a tiled roof.· Rain and hail bounced on the tiled roof with such venom that Tom and Willie were quite deafened.· Two storeys high, the walls made of wood, it had a tiled roof and one half had been refurbished.· Constructed of stone and with a tiled roof, it went out of use shortly after the First World War.· Zen stood in the fading sunlight watching the courtship of two pigeons on the tiled roof of a shed below.· The mill still survives and is constructed of stone, with a slate tiled roof.
NOUN
· A glass roof flashed in the sun, far, far.· The gallery is divided into three areas, all under its glass roof.· A glass roof, hundreds of feet above us, kept out the rain.· The original plans optimistically called for cooling coils at the peak of the 85-foot glass roof over the jungle section.· Moonlight lay on the glass roof of the sun-lounge, blue sheets of it, like lightning paralysed.· Under a glass roof we sat side by side, a deux, on a banquette.· The 60 shops, with a glass roof over the courtyard, have a marketing committee on which he sits.· One of the most striking features of the Gyle shopping mall is its glass roof.
· Secondly, I want a good ¾ length roof rack for my vehicle but can only locate rather basic utilitarian models.· People climbed over the bonnet or sat on the roof rack.· Stacked on the floor around their legs was all the luggage that wouldn't fit on the roof rack.· A Hillman Imp, a roof rack, the beak of an upturned canoe overshooting its windscreen.· The roof rack was a test item and did not prove successful.· Harvey connected the roof rack to two batteries.· The lights fixed to the roof rack came on, but paper cones prevented them from being visible from the shore line.
· Dorchester Terrace was a row of tall red houses with sloping slate roofs.· Ranks of houses stretched away into the distance like waves breaking on a rocky shore, their slate roofs glistening.· All can be used with tile-covered roofs, or as a contrast, with slate roofs.· Porous state My slate roof is leaking through general wear.· It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front.· At the foot of the bed, a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs.· Outside the snow was already melting on the slate roofs of the houses.· Because the sun shone so brightly the slate roof blazed like a slab of silver.
· What he called his workshop was a conversion of the roof space over the detached garage.· The upper stalls, above that, were raked like a ship heeling over, crammed into the roof space.· The cherry berets made meticulous house-searches, even digging up the floors of some places, going into roof spaces with torches.· Being top-hung, there is no encroachment into the roof space to consider, as there is with centre-pivoting roof windows.· The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge, or close to it, so using almost all the roof space.· Power point. access to insulated roof space with light.· Is the roof space clean and clear of rubbish?· The raiders removed tiles to climb into the roof space.
· A few were thatched, but most had iron or tile roofs.· Oh, sure, you see red tile roofs in Rancho Bernardo and brilliant tile work in Balboa Park fountains and buildings.· I have tended, I confess, to sneer at white stucco walls and red tile roofs.· It makes a faint clack against the tile roof.
· The house we were in was solid Victorian in style, both inside and out, except that it had a tin roof.· I was rescued momentarily by the first drops of rain, pinging on the tin roof above us.· In the night a ferocious hail-storm rattles on the tin roof.· It was easy duty: all paperwork, no humping, a tin roof over his head.· The tin roof of the verandah is home to all sorts of creatures.· Wooden posts supported a tin roof Most people at Holy Trinity had dined in more gracious picnic shelters.· I have a tin roof instead of bamboo.
VERB
· This property has been built with properly sloping roofs and mountain architecture.· Near the bunker was a small, wood-framed building with a corrugated roof on it.· And here was I, thinking you could not be building a roof without nails.· In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower.· The Volvo Cup is the world indoor championship, but Del Mar's new stadium has been built without a roof.· He built the roofs and pocketed all the money.
· They could not open the door, so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window.· They climbed to the roofs of the terminals, broke windows and shutters and created an ear-splitting din.· Is there a handy dustbin or a down-spout that will assist the thief to climb on to the roof?· He climbed on to the roof and counted the missing shingles he would replace.· Dean climbed off the roof and let himself into the car the way he had come.· The raiders removed tiles to climb into the roof space.· Raiders lifted tiles and climbed in through the roof space to take the guns and 150 rounds of ammunition.
· Suddenly there was a terrible crash of thunder, and the branch of a tree fell on to the roof.· Peggy fell off the roof of their house while fixing the cooler one summer.· The man who fell through the roof wasn't after any of the family jewels.· Nicola Giandomenico said it appeared more stones fell from the roof and the facade during the latest aftershock.· Part of the chimney fell through the roof and injured Carol, Brenda's daughter.· Any fool could throw him-self in front of a car; or fall off a roof.· The plaintiff fell through a roof and was injured.· Bricks had fallen and then the roof caved in, pinning Lewis under a concrete lintel.
· Two shells hit the roof and one exploded in the corridor during the night.· Top editors hit the roof Maybe one picture, but a page full of pictures of black women?· He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit.· The shell hit the roof of the building and made a mess of the inside of the building.· He hit the roof as soon as Peter came in.· What would Old Chao do if he saw them, hit the roof on his way into outer space?· Its hitting the roof so soon had stopped the process.· Well, honey, I hit the roof.
· His house is large, and his children are old enough to be free, though all still live under his roof.· Throughout the last decade, information age companies struggled to find places where their disparate workforce could live under one roof.· The rural family was a close-knit one with, at times, three generations living under the one roof.· Yet Shaker men and women lived under the same roof in large dormitory-like houses.· She only knew she was bitterly disappointed that she and Seb would not be living under the same roof.· There were, quite literally, hundreds of boys and young men who lived under its cavernous roof.
· And raising the roof ... the house where lightning struck twice.· They raised the roof, his battalion of coughs.
· The steel racking is used to support wall and roof cladding and is an integral part of the system.· Wooden posts supported a tin roof Most people at Holy Trinity had dined in more gracious picnic shelters.· A thin steel cord was bolted to the beam that supported the boxcar roof.· Cast-iron columns and a curved rib framework support the conical roof which has a diameter of 180 feet.· The great beams supporting the roof were held in place by equally impressive timbers.· The masts extend upwards to support the central roof and are joined together with three stages of horseshoe timber arches and timber boarding.· We had to construct a cradle to support the roof while parts of the wood beams were replaced.· The verandah is long and overgrown with climbing plants, which are wrapped around the varnished poles that support the tin roof.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► under the same roof/under one roof► under somebody’s roof
  • The Warriors were leading, with only a few minutes of the game to go, when the roof fell in.
  • It may not be long before the roof falls in.
  • It's hard to be cheerful when you haven't even got a roof over your head.
  • It doesn't matter what kind of place it is, at least you'll have a roof over your head.
  • We always had food on the table and a roof over our heads.
  • At least they would have a roof over their heads in the winter.
  • I have a bed and a roof over my head and three meals a day, so I should not complain.
  • Many of the homeless on London's streets would be glad of warm clothes and a roof over their head.
  • Married to a man I despise just to have a roof over my head and a ring on my finger!
  • Now she did not have a roof over her head.
  • The first night passed quietly enough as the newcomers were thoroughly examined and were glad to get a roof over their heads.
  • To stress the importance of a roof over your head. 2.
  • Who would offer a woman and three children a roof over their heads?
  • Following news of increased profits, the company's share price went through the roof.
  • Put that back before Dad sees you and hits the roof!
  • Sales of Ray-Ban sunglasses went through the roof after Tom Cruise wore them in 'Risky Business'.
  • And the price is going through the roof.
  • He could predict business to go through the roof.
  • Inflation had accelerated and commodity prices had gone through the roof.
  • No wonder inflation is going through the roof and our environment ends up choked with litter.
  • Sales of those products went through the roof.
  • The second day went through the roof with a whopping 573,604.
  • They criticise the poll tax, but when they were in office the rates went through the roof.
  • An' the third one's brain had bin pulverised - by a blow delivered through the roof of its mouth!
  • Clench the jaws, as if chewing hard, while pushing your tongue hard against the roof of your mouth.
  • Her tongue was glued to the roof of her mouth.
  • I can eat no more of the wild rice which tastes nutty and clings to the roof of my mouth.
  • I rubbed it across my tongue, the roof of my mouth, and I ground it between my teeth.
  • It burns the roof of my mouth.
  • My tongue froze to the roof of my mouth; my eyeballs dropped from their sockets and clattered at my feet.
  • The brittle wafer dissolving against the roofs of their mouths was their promise of life in a world beyond Holy Hill.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit.
  • One tankard hit the ceiling, another broke a window.
  • The shell hit the roof of the building and made a mess of the inside of the building.
  • The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor.
  • Then, he proceeded to hit the ceiling.
  • Top editors hit the roof Maybe one picture, but a page full of pictures of black women?
  • Two shells hit the roof and one exploded in the corridor during the night.
  • What would Old Chao do if he saw them, hit the roof on his way into outer space?
► low-pitched roof
  • The crowd's cheers raised the roof.
  • And raising the roof ... the house where lightning struck twice.
  • They raised the roof, his battalion of coughs.
1the structure that covers or forms the top of a building, vehicle, tent etc:  They finally found the cat up on the roof.roof of We can probably strap the cases to the roof of her car.slate/tiled/thatched etc roof a flat roof a pitched roof (=sloping roof)red-roofed/metal-roofed etc a wooden-roofed theatre2the top of a passage under the ground:  Suddenly, the whole tunnel roof caved in.3a roof over your head somewhere to live:  I may not have a job, but at least I’ve got a roof over my head.4go through the roof informal a) (also hit the roof) to suddenly become very angry:  Put that back before Dad sees you and hits the roof! b)if a price, cost etc goes through the roof, it increases to a very high level5the roof of somebody’s mouth the hard upper part of the inside of your mouth6under the same roof/under one roof in the same building or home:  If we’re going to live under the same roof, we need to get along. Here you can buy food, clothes, and electrical goods all under one roof.7under somebody’s roof spoken in your home:  As long as you live under my roof, you’ll do as I say.8the roof falls/caves in informal especially American English if the roof falls in or caves in, something bad suddenly happens to you when you do not expect it → raise the roof at raise1(24), → sunroofCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + roofa flat roof· She used to sunbathe on the flat roof.a sloping roof· The path led to a log cabin with a chalet-style sloping roof.a pitched roof (=with parts that slope down)· a row of garages with tiled pitched roofs.a tiled roof (=covered with pieces of baked clay)a slate roof (=covered with thin pieces of a grey rock)a thatched roof (=made of dried straw)· She lived in a pretty country cottage with a thatched roof.a leaky/leaking roof (=one that lets rain in)· We needed to fix the leaky roof.
roof1 nounroof2 verb
roofroof2 verb [transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
roof
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyroof
he, she, itroofs
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyroofed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave roofed
he, she, ithas roofed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad roofed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill roof
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have roofed
Continuous Form
PresentIam roofing
he, she, itis roofing
you, we, theyare roofing
PastI, he, she, itwas roofing
you, we, theywere roofing
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been roofing
he, she, ithas been roofing
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been roofing
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be roofing
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been roofing
word sets
WORD SETS
adobe, nounasphalt, nounbatten, nounbeam, nounblueprint, nounboard, nounboom, nounbreeze-block, nounbrick, nounbricklayer, nounbrickwork, nounbucket, nounbuilder, nounbuilding contractor, nounbuilding site, nounbulldoze, verbbulldozer, nounbuttress, nouncaisson, nouncantilever, nouncastellated, adjectivecavity wall, nouncement, nouncement, verbconcrete, adjectiveconcrete, nounconcrete, verbconduit, nounconstruct, verbcrane, nouncrosspiece, noundaub, noundigger, noundowel, noundrain, noundrainage, noundraughtsman, noundry-stone wall, noundry wall, nounduckboards, noundustsheet, nounembankment, nounerect, verberection, nounfence, verbfencing, nounfiberboard, nounfibreboard, nounfloor plan, nounfoundation, noungantry, noungatepost, noungirder, noungreenfield site, nounhalf-timbered, adjectivehard hat, nounhod, nounhousing association, nounhousing project, nounjackhammer, nounjib, nounjoist, nounkeystone, nounlath, nounleading, nounmansard, nounmortar, nounpanelling, nounpanel pin, nounpave, verbpavement, nounpebbledash, nounpier, nounpile driver, nounplank, nounplanking, nounplaster, nounplaster, verbplasterboard, nounplasterer, nounplate glass, nounpoint, verbPortakabin, nounprime, verbprimer, nounproperty developer, nounputty, nounquantity surveyor, nounrebuild, verbreconstruct, verbreconstruction, nounrefurbish, verbreinforced concrete, nounrendering, nounrenovate, verbrevetment, nounroof, nounroof, verbroofing, nounrooftop, nounrubble, nounsand, verbsandstone, nounsaw, verbscaffold, nounscaffolding, nounshovel, nounsite, nounskip, nounslab, nounslate, nounspan, verbstarter home, nounsteam shovel, nounstilt, nounstucco, nounsurface, verbsuspension bridge, nounthatch, nounthatched, adjectivetile, nountile, verbtiling, nountimber, nountopcoat, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=the top inside part)· He made a clicking sound with his tongue on the roof of his mouth.
· The roof of the tunnel was a foot above his head.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit.
  • One tankard hit the ceiling, another broke a window.
  • The shell hit the roof of the building and made a mess of the inside of the building.
  • The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor.
  • Then, he proceeded to hit the ceiling.
  • Top editors hit the roof Maybe one picture, but a page full of pictures of black women?
  • Two shells hit the roof and one exploded in the corridor during the night.
  • What would Old Chao do if he saw them, hit the roof on his way into outer space?
► low-pitched roof
  • The crowd's cheers raised the roof.
  • And raising the roof ... the house where lightning struck twice.
  • They raised the roof, his battalion of coughs.
 to put a roof on a buildingbe roofed with something a cottage roofed with the local slateGRAMMAR Roof is usually passive.roof something ↔ in/over phrasal verb British English to cover an open space by putting a roof over it:  We’re going to roof in the yard to make a garage.
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