Definitions for roofing

roofing roof·ing

Spelling: [roo-fing, roo f-ing]
IPA: /ˈru fɪŋ, ˈrʊf ɪŋ/

Roofing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in roofing (fginoor).

Definitions for roofing

noun

  1. the act of covering with a roof.
  2. material for roofs.
  3. a roof.
  4. the external upper covering of a house or other building.
  5. a frame for supporting this:
  6. the highest part or summit:
  7. something that in form or position resembles the roof of a house, as the top of a car, the upper part of the mouth, etc.
  8. a house.
  9. Mining. the rock immediately above a horizontal mineral deposit.

Idioms

  1. go through the roof, to increase beyond all expectations: Also, hit the roof. Informal. to lose one's temper; become extremely angry.
  2. raise the roof, Informal. to create a loud noise: to complain or protest noisily:

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide or cover with a roof.

Origin of roofing

First recorded in 1400-50, roofing is from the late Middle English word rovyng. See roof, -ing1

Examples for roofing

Robert and Gary Allen are brothers who run a small Michigan roofing company.

roofing companies are mostly small shops, which makes them hard to organize.

Cumnor, see that dugout with side-thatch and roofing of tule?

Coupeau was then finishing the roofing of a new three-storied house.

They came to a cleft where an arch of stone was chiseled out as a roofing.

The building was unfinished; the sky could be seen through the joists of the roofing.

The roofing which remains is executed entirely in stone, but not arched or vaulted.

That dream -– that American Dream -– is what drove the Allen Brothers to reinvent their roofing company for a new era.

The roofing of these two rooms and some ironwork on the gate remained to be completed.

The leaf of the sago is preferable for the roofing of houses to the nibong.

Word Value for roofing
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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