Roofs Or Rooves Oxford Dictionary

Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building.

Roofs or rooves oxford dictionary.

Operating costs went through the roof last year. 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. The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.

Go through the roof slang 1. The top inner surface of a covered area or space. 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. Roof third person singular simple present roofs present participle roofing simple past and past participle roofed transitive to cover or furnish with a roof.

Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. You must be methuselah. To grow intensify or rise to an enormous often unexpected degree. Get a rooves mug for your girlfriend yasemin.

The roof of the cave fell in. The plural of roof is roofs or rooves. The structure that covers or forms the top of a building or vehicle. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century.

Tim climbed on to the garage roof. Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word. Throughout history roofs have been constructed of thatch clay palm leaves wood and many other building materials. Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect.

Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves.