Roofs Or Rooves Oxford Dictionary

To grow intensify or rise to an enormous often unexpected degree.

Roofs or rooves oxford dictionary.

Tim climbed on to the garage roof. The plural of roof for people old enough to read the oxford dictionary of the english language in fact old enough to know that the real napoleon was not dynamite or a brandy. The structure that covers or forms the top of a building or vehicle. Operating costs went through the roof last year.

The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. Go through the roof slang 1. Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect. You must be methuselah.

Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. Roof third person singular simple present roofs present participle roofing simple past and past participle roofed transitive to cover or furnish with a roof. Throughout history roofs have been constructed of thatch clay palm leaves wood and many other building materials. To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.

Transitive slang to put into prison to bird. Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building. The top inner surface of a covered area or space. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century.

Get a rooves mug for your girlfriend yasemin. The plural of roof is roofs or rooves. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves.

Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word.