Roofs Or Rooves Oxford Dictionary

Transitive slang to put into prison to bird.

Roofs or rooves oxford dictionary.

Go through the roof slang 1. To grow intensify or rise to an enormous often unexpected degree. The roof of the cave fell in. Throughout history roofs have been constructed of thatch clay palm leaves wood and many other building materials.

Get a rooves mug for your girlfriend yasemin. Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves. You must be methuselah. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.

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. 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 traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century.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 corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. The plural of roof is roofs or rooves. Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days. The top inner surface of a covered area or space.

Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building. Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word. Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect. Tim climbed on to the garage roof.

Operating costs went through the roof last year.