Definition of Roof

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Definition of Roof

Roof

The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.

That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.

The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

To cover with a roof.

To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.

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Roof Quotations

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
Carol Burnett

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.
Harry Houdini

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
Jim Harrison

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Ramakrishna

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
Dick Butkus

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell

Roof Translations

roof in Danish is tag
roof in Dutch is kap, dak, overkapping
roof in Finnish is katto
roof in French is toit
roof in German is Dach
roof in Italian is tetto
roof in Norwegian is tak
roof in Portuguese is telhado
roof in Spanish is techado, tejado
roof in Swedish is tak

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