Roofs Or Rooves Oxford Dictionary

Get a rooves mug for your girlfriend yasemin.

Roofs or rooves oxford dictionary.

Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century.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 roof of the cave fell in.

The top inner surface of a covered area or space. 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. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.

Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves. To grow intensify or rise to an enormous often unexpected degree. Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building. The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked.

Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word. Tim climbed on to the garage roof. The plural of roof is roofs or rooves. Go through the roof slang 1.

The structure that covers or forms the top of a building or vehicle. Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days. Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.

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.