Definitions for dome

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dome dome

Spelling: [dohm]

IPA: /doʊm/

Dome is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in dome (demo).

Definitions for dome

noun

1. Architecture. a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions. a domical roof or ceiling. a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
2. any covering thought to resemble the hemispherical vault of a building or room:
3. anything shaped like a hemisphere or inverted bowl.
4. (in a dam) a semidome having its convex surface toward the impounded water.
5. Crystallography. a form having planes that intersect the vertical axis and are parallel to one of the lateral axes.
6. Geology. upwarp.
7. Also called vistadome. Railroads. a raised, glass-enclosed section of the roof of a passenger car, placed over an elevated section of seats to afford passengers a full view of scenery.
8. Horology. an inner cover for the works of a watch, which snaps into the rim of the case.
9. a mountain peak having a rounded summit.
10. Slang. a person's head:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as if with a dome.
2. to shape like a dome.

verb (used without object)

1. to rise or swell as a dome.

Origin of dome

1505-15; Middle French dome Italian duomo Medieval Latin domus (Deī) house (of God), church; akin to timber

Examples for dome

In the application of the dome to the octagon no pendentives are employed.

The weight of the drum and dome rests on the pendentives and dome-arches.

The dome could be rebuilt by 2021 if work stays on schedule, according to workers at the site.

My saloon luckily has a dome, and under the dome we placed it.

Alas, CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler has already said that if Extant is a hit like dome, it will return next year.

No doubt the prelate had good-naturedly offered to conduct them to the dome.

Local bigwig Jim Rennie (Dean Norris), a used-car salesman and councilman, looks to use the dome to seize control of the town.

From deep within, looking up at the tropical sky is like staring through the dome of some kind of earthen cathedral.

The Hebrew word used in Genesis for the sky is “raqia” which means “bowl” or “dome.”

The dome on the new court-house is expected to be completed by domesday.