roof

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɹuːf/    美 /ɹuːf/|/ɹʊf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The external covering at the top of a building.
    — The roof was blown off by the tornado.
  2. The top external level of a building.
    — Let's go up to the roof.
  3. The upper part of a cavity.
    — The palate is the roof of the mouth.
  4. The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
  5. An overhanging rock wall.
  6. A hat. archaic,slang
    — Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.
动词 v.
  1. To cover or furnish with a roof. transitive
    — A trench about ten feet deep was dug in the ground and roofed over with sticks and earth so as to form a dark tunnel.
  2. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
  3. To put into prison, to bird. slang,transitive
    — Did you see them, David? I mean, did you see them looking at me? I-I'm walking out of the court, and everybody was practically – yeah, they were gawking. […] I mean, Noah roofed me, I proved it, end of story.
  4. To shelter as if under a roof. transitive
    — They reached him: the pieces of rock had roofed him over—he was without injury or scratch.

词形变化

roofs plural rooves UK,plural,uncommon roofs present,singular,third-person roofing participle,present roofed participle,past roofed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English rof, from Old English hrōf (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”). Cognate with Scots ruif (“roof, ceiling”), Dutch roef (“cabin on a boat”), Icelandic hróf (“shed”), Irish cró (“pen, barn, cabin”), Proto-Slavic *stropъ (“roof, ceiling”). Compare Faroese rógv (“something high up”).
词源 2
From Middle English rofen, roven (“to roof”), from the noun (see above).
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