Roofs Or Rooves Oxford Dictionary

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Roofs or rooves oxford dictionary.

Throughout history roofs have been constructed of thatch clay palm leaves wood and many other building materials. Tim climbed on to the garage roof. Operating costs went through the roof last year. Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days.

The plural of roof is roofs or rooves. Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves. The roof of the cave fell in. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident.

Go through the roof slang 1. The plural of roof for people old enough to read the oxford dictionary of the english language in fact old enough to know that the real napoleon was not dynamite or a brandy. To grow intensify or rise to an enormous often unexpected degree. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.

The top inner surface of a covered area or space. Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word. Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.

Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building. The structure that covers or forms the top of a building or vehicle. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century. These are special liners on the sides and sometimes the roof and back of an oven which are treated with a material that absorbs those greasy splashes.

The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked.