Roofs Or Rooves Oxford Dictionary

Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days.

Roofs or rooves oxford dictionary.

Get a rooves mug for your girlfriend yasemin. The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. 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.

Operating costs went through the roof last year. You must be methuselah. Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century.

To grow intensify or rise to an enormous often unexpected degree. Roof third person singular simple present roofs present participle roofing simple past and past participle roofed transitive to cover or furnish with a roof. 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 roof of the cave fell in.

Go through the roof slang 1. The structure that covers or forms the top of a building or vehicle. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. The plural of roof is roofs or rooves.

Tim climbed on to the garage roof. Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building. Throughout history roofs have been constructed of thatch clay palm leaves wood and many other building materials. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.

The top inner surface of a covered area or space.