roof

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space

   the roof of the cave was very high

2. 2
   verb

   provide a building with a roof

   cover a building with a roof

3. 3
   noun

   The external covering at the top of a building.

   The roof was blown off by the tornado.

4. 4
   noun

   The top external level of a building.

   Let's go up to the roof.

5. 5
   noun

   The upper part of a cavity.

   The palate is the roof of the mouth.

6. 6
   noun

   A hat.

   Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.

7. 7
   verb

   To cover or furnish with a roof.

   A trench about ten feet deep was dug in the ground and roofed over with sticks and earth so as to form a dark tunnel.

8. 8
   verb

   To put into prison, to bird.

   Did you see them, David? I mean, did you see them looking at me? I-I'm walking out of the court, and everybody was practically – yeah, they were gawking. […] I mean, Noah roofed me, I proved it, end of story.

Etymology

From Middle English rof, from Old English hrōf (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”). Cognate with Scots ruif (“roof, ceiling”), Dutch roef (“cabin on a boat”), Icelandic hróf (“shed”), Irish cró (“pen, barn, cabin”), Proto-Slavic *stropъ (“roof, ceiling”). Compare Faroese rógv (“something high up”).