Roofs Or Rooves Oxford Dictionary

Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.

Roofs or rooves oxford dictionary. Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves. The structure that covers or forms the top of a building or vehicle. Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word. Roof third person singular simple present roofs present participle roofing simple past and past participle roofed transitive to cover or furnish with a roof.

To grow intensify or rise to an enormous often unexpected degree. Operating costs went through the roof last year. Tim climbed on to the garage roof. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.

The roof of the cave fell in. The plural of roof is roofs or rooves. 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. 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.

You must be methuselah. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. The top inner surface of a covered area or space.

Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect. Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days. Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building. Transitive slang to put into prison to bird.

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