Definition of Ceiling

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Ceiling

of Ceil

The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.

The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

The inner planking of a vessel.

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Ceiling Quotations

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
Bill Shankly

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
M. C. Escher

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
Mark Messier

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.
Sharon Gless

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.
Sharon Gless

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
Kevin Spacey

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
William Weld

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.
Juice Newton

Ceiling Translations

ceiling in Danish is loft
ceiling in Dutch is hoogtegrens, plafon, plafond
ceiling in Finnish is laipio
ceiling in French is plafond
ceiling in German is Decke(Zimmer), Obergrenze, Obergrenze
ceiling in Hungarian is plafon, mennyezet
ceiling in Italian is soffitto
ceiling in Portuguese is tecto, teto
ceiling in Spanish is techo
ceiling in Swedish is innertak

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