roof

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

other parts of houses or other buildings HOUSE, BUILDING
- the part of a building, vehicle, etc, that covers the top of it: roof
a flat roof ◎ to climb onto the roof
- a round roof on a building: dome
the dome of St Paul's Cathedral
- the space inside the roof of a house: attic, loft
We have converted our loft into a bedroom for the children.
- the long metal or plastic pipe that is fixed under the edge of a roof to carry away rainwater: gutter
a blocked gutter
- smoke from a fireplace in a house goes up above the roof through a chimney; the narrow pipe at the top of a chimney: chimney pot
※—† what roofs are made of
- a piece of baked clay that fits together with others in rows to cover a roof: tile; adjective: tiled
a tiled roof
- a type of dark grey rock that can easily be split into thin, flat pieces and used to cover a roof: slate (noun U); one of these pieces: slate
a slate roof ◎ Several of the slates came off in the storm.
- a roof that is covered with dried straw is thatched; the straw that is used for this: thatch (noun U)
a thatched cottage
- a hard, grey metal which is used in sheets that are shaped into folds: corrugated iron (noun U)
a hut with a corrugated iron roof

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ceiling, cap