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dome

Audio Help [dohm] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, domed, dom·ing.

–noun

Architecture.

a.	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.

b.	a domical roof or ceiling.

c.	a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.

2.	any covering thought to resemble the hemispherical vault of a building or room: the great dome of the sky.

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: I wish I could get the idea into that thick dome of yours.

–verb (used with object)

11.	to cover with or as if with a dome.

12.	to shape like a dome.

–verb (used without object)

13.	to rise or swell as a dome.

[Origin: 1505–15; < MF dome < It duomo < ML domus (Deī) house (of God), church; akin to timber

]

—Related forms

domelike, adjective

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dome Audio Help (dōm) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A vaulted roof having a circular, polygonal, or elliptical base and a generally hemispherical or semispherical shape.
2. A geodesic dome.
A domelike structure, object, or natural formation.
Chemistry A form of crystal with two similarly inclined faces that meet at an edge parallel to the horizontal axis.
Slang The human head.
Archaic A large, stately building.

v. domed, dom·ing, domes

v. tr.

To cover with or as if with a dome.
To shape like a dome.

v. intr.
To rise or swell into the shape of a dome.

[From French dôme, dome, cathedral (from Italian duomo, cathedral, from Latin domus, house; see dem- in Indo-European roots) and from French dôme, roof (from Provençal doma, from Greek dōma, house; see dem- in Indo-European roots).]

dom'al (dō'məl) adj.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
dome

"round, vaulted roof," 1656, from Fr. dome, from Prov. doma, from Gk. doma "house, housetop" (especially a style of roof from the east), related to domos "house" (see domestic). In the Middle Ages, Ger. dom and It. duomo were used for "cathedral" (on the notion of "God's house"), so Eng. began to use this word in the sense "cupola," an architectural feature characteristic of It. cathedrals. Used in U.S. also with ref. to round summits of mountains.

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dome
noun
1.	a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
2.	informal terms for a human head [syn: attic]
3.	a stadium that has a roof
4.	a hemispherical roof

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
dome [doum] noun

a roof shaped like half a ball
Example: the dome of the cathedral

Arabic:	قُبَّه
Chinese (Simplified):	圆屋顶
Chinese (Traditional):	圓屋頂
Czech:	kopule
Danish:	kuppel
Dutch:	koepel
Estonian:	kuppel
Finnish:	kupoli
French:	dôme
German:	die Kuppel
Greek:	θόλος
Hungarian:	kupola
Icelandic:	hvolfþak
Indonesian:	kubah
Italian:	cupola

Japanese:	丸屋根
Korean:	반구형의 지붕, 틈
Latvian:	kupols
Lithuanian:	kupolas
Norwegian:	kuppel
Polish:	kopuła
Portuguese (Brazil):	cúpula
Portuguese (Portugal):	cúpula
Romanian:	dom
Russian:	купол
Slovak:	kupola
Slovenian:	kupola
Spanish:	cúpula
Swedish:	kupol
Turkish:	kubbe

See also: domed

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A circular or elliptical area of uplifted rock in which the rock dips gently away, in all directions, from a central point.
A wedge-shaped mineral crystal that has two nonparallel, similarly inclined faces that intersect along a plane of symmetry.