Definition of Dome

1. Noun. A concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward.


2. Noun. Informal terms for a human head.
Exact synonyms: Attic, Bean, Bonce, Noggin, Noodle
Generic synonyms: Human Head
Derivative terms: Bean

3. Noun. A stadium that has a roof.
Exact synonyms: Covered Stadium, Domed Stadium
Generic synonyms: Arena, Bowl, Sports Stadium, Stadium

4. Noun. A hemispherical roof.

Definition of Dome

1. n. A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.

2. n. Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

Definition of Dome

1. Noun. A common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere, a cupola. ¹

2. Noun. Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover, e.g. a cake '''dome'''. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) head (including the meaning 'oral sex') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dome

1. to cover with a dome (a rounded roof) [v DOMED, DOMING, DOMES]

Medical Definition of Dome

1. 1. A building; a house; an edifice; used chiefly in poetry. "Approach the dome, the social banquet share." (Pope) 2. A cupola formed on a large scale. "The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom; and it is supposed that the word in its present English sense has crept into use from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted by a cupola." 3. 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. 4. 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. If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome. Origin: F. Dome, It. Duomo, fr. L. Domus a house, domus Dei or Domini, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. House, to build, and E. Timber. See Timber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dome

domain theory
domain wall
domainal
domaine
domainer
domainers
domaines
domaining
domainless
domains
domal
domanial
domatia
domatium
dombeya
dome cell
dome light
domed
domed stadium
domeless
domelike
domes
domesday
domesdays
domeshaped
domesman
domesmen
domestic
domestic-debt

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