[ UK /ɹˈuːf/ ]
[ US /ˈɹuf, ˈɹʊf/ ]
NOUN
  1. an upper limit on what is allowed
    there was a roof on salaries
    he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him
    they established a cap for prices
  2. the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space
    I could see the roof of the bear's mouth
    the roof of the cave was very high
  3. protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
  4. a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
VERB
  1. provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof
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How To Use roof In A Sentence

  • The buildings are usually gabled, with rows of tiles along the ridges of the roofs.
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  • Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
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  • The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
  • The couples agreed on a discreet slate-tiled mansard roof extension that gave each house an additional 30sq m of floor space. Times, Sunday Times
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