dome
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| 1. | Architecture.
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| 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. |
| 11. | to cover with or as if with a dome. |
| 12. | to shape like a dome. |
| 13. | to rise or swell as a dome. |
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domelike, adjective
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n.
v. domed, dom·ing, domes v. tr.
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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"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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| 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 |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
dome [doum] noun
a roof shaped like half a ball
Example: the dome of the cathedral
See also: domedExample: the dome of the cathedral
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Brach`y*dome\, n. [Gr. brachy`s short + E. dome.] (Crystallog.) A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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Cli"no*dome`\, n. [Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. dome.] (Crystallog.) See under Dome.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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