Definition of Dome

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Definition of Dome

Dome

A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.

A cupola formed on a large scale.

Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

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Dome Quotations

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John Ruskin

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
Milan Kundera

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
Mary Lou Retton

I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.
George Duke

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.
George William Norris

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.
Howard Finster

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
Andrew Taylor Still

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home- yea, I'm always at Om.
Eden Ahbez

Dome Translations

dome in Dutch is koepel
dome in German is Kuppel, Dom, Kuppel
dome in Italian is cupola
dome in Norwegian is kuppel
dome in Swedish is dom, kupol

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