Dome

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A vaulted roof having a circular, polygonal, or elliptical base and a generally hemispherical or semispherical shape.
  • n. A geodesic dome.
  • n. A domelike structure, object, or natural formation.
  • n. Chemistry A form of crystal with two similarly inclined faces that meet at an edge parallel to the horizontal axis.
  • n. Slang The human head.
  • n. Archaic A large, stately building.
  • v. To cover with or as if with a dome.
  • v. To shape like a dome.
  • verb-intransitive. To rise or swell into the shape of a dome.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere, a cupola.
  • n. Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover, e.g. a cake dome.
  • n. head (including the meaning 'oral sex')
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
  • n. A cupola formed on a large scale.
  • n. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  • n. A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
  • n. Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A building; a house; especially, a stately building; a great hall; a church or temple.
  • n. In architecture, a cupola; a vault upon a plan circular or nearly so; a hemispherical or approximately hemispherical coving of a building.
  • n. This restricted application of the term arose from the fact that the churches of Italy were almost universally built with a cupola at the intersection of the nave and the transept, or over the sanctuary. In some instances dome may refer equally well to the church or cathedral, or to the cupola which is its most conspicuous feature.
  • n. Anything shaped like a cupola.
  • n. The dome-shaped part of the roof of an astronomical observatory, placed over a telescope.
  • n. In crystallography, a form whose planes intersect the vertical axis, but are parallel to one of the lateral axes: so called because it has above or below a horizontal edge like the roof of a house; also, one of the faces of such a form.
  • To furnish or cover with a dome; give the shape of a dome to.
  • An obsolete form of doom.
  • n. In geology, an anticlinal fold whose axis equals or approximates a point; an anticlinal fold with quaquaversal dip. Domes are most commonly produced by laccoliths, but they may be due to intersecting folds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a stadium that has a roof
  • n. a hemispherical roof
  • n. informal terms for a human head
  • n. a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
  • Verb Form
    domed    domes    doming   
    Hypernym
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    Cross Reference
    Synonym
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    building    house    edifice    decision    judgment    opinion    vault    cupola    tholus    canopy   
    Rhyme
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    Boehme    Guillaume    Home    Jerome    Nome    Ohm    Rome    boehm    chrome    comb   
    Same Context
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    spire    tower    pillar    arch    building    vault    pyramid    chamber    sphere    canopy