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2. Verb. (third-person singular of roof) (to install a roof). ¹

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Definition of Roofs

1. roof [v] - See also: roof

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roofs

Literary usage of Roofs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock (1880)
"n5&"^s still retain their original roofs of marble, t>rV war,HI roofs were ... A few roofs of this date still ex- on the nave of Hales Owen Church, ..."

2. The True Principles of Pointed Or Christian Architecture: Set Forth in Two by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1841)
"This is beautifully exemplified in ancient roofs, either of churches or domestic buildings: the construction of these, so far from being concealed, ..."

3. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"roofs. A Study of Roof Trusses. N. Clifford Ricker. ... 90535 N. Analytical Design of Vaulted roofs (Analytische Berechnung von ..."

4. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine (1872)
"As to the construction and weight of varions sorti of covering for roofs, see Article 337, p. 468. To the sorte d covering there described there may now be ..."

5. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1904)
"roofs. Roof construction does not differ materially from floor ... roofs built in place over an iron framework and monolithic roofs require forms for their ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1920)
"During a number of years, Barrois, P. Bertrand and some other geologists had studied the roofs of coal beds and they succeeded in classifying them into (i) ..."

7. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson (1905)
"CONCRETE roofs Concrete roofs are designed and laid in much the same manner ... The strength of the concrete may also play a smaller part in roofs than in ..."

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