Roofs Or Rooves Oxford Dictionary

The plural of roof is roofs or rooves.

Roofs or rooves oxford dictionary.

Tim climbed on to the garage roof. Throughout history roofs have been constructed of thatch clay palm leaves wood and many other building materials. 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. Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves.

Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. You must be methuselah. 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 roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. Go through the roof slang 1. Get a rooves mug for your girlfriend yasemin.

Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century.

Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days. The roof of the cave fell in. 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. Roof third person singular simple present roofs present participle roofing simple past and past participle roofed transitive to cover or furnish with a roof.

Operating costs went through the roof last year.