Definitions for roofs

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roofs roof

Spelling: [roof, roo f]

IPA: /ruf, rʊf/

Roofs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in roofs (foors).

Definitions for roofs

noun

1. the external upper covering of a house or other building.
2. a frame for supporting this:
3. the highest part or summit:
4. 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.
5. a house.
6. 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 roofs

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English hrōf; cognate with Dutch roef cover, cabin, Old Norse hrōf

Examples for roofs

They looked from the windows of the hospital, and from the roofs of houses.

Homeowners may want them on their roofs—but not for $30,000 upfront.

“It pretty much looks like taking a central solar plant and allocating it across 3,000 roofs,” said Rumido.

The roofs are all gone and all the partitions inside the houses show.

Gargoyles at the foot of the flying buttresses carried off the water from the roofs.

Rooftop solar—individual homeowners putting generating systems on their roofs—is also booming in Arizona.

I know the poorer neighborhoods where the people slept on the roofs and would look at us in awe when we asked for their help.

How carefully I packed my pipe, gazing serenely over the roofs of Paris.

Chili peppers were everywhere, drying on mats, on roofs, and in fields.

If they fall upon houses, the roofs are crushed by the weight.