Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To provide or cover with a ceiling.
- v. Nautical To provide (a ship) with interior planking or lining.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A canopy of state.
- To canopy; provide with a canopy or hangings.
- To overlay or cover the interior upper surface of (a room or building) with wood, plaster, cloth, or other material. See ceiling, 2. Formerly with special reference to ornamental hangings, or, as in the first (quotation, to carved woodwork, either on the roof or the sides of a room: in the latter use, same as definition 3.
- To wainscot; also, by extension, to floor.
Wiktionary
- v. To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.
- n. poetic a ceiling
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling.
- v. To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.
Etymologies
- From French ciel ("heavens"), from Latin caelum. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English celen, probably from Old French *celer, from Latin caelāre, to carve, from caelum, chisel; see Caelum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We're locked in some kind of holding ceil, probably awaiting orders.”
“The owls knew how to launch their bombs upward against an opponent pinned against the ceil - ing, so "upsmanship" was not the only strategy.”
“Most newer CPUs have various built in functions for round, floor and ceil all of which are variants of the standard round we all know.”
“All modern CPUs have built-in round, ceil, and floor functions and typically their behaviors are configurable though you may have to operate at the assembly level.”
“Net languages, the round function by default rounds towards zero ie floor when +ve, ceil when -ve.”
“From dirty flock bedding, drip dropping through the ceil — ing, with two sisters of charities on the front steps and three eva — cuan cleansers at the back gaze, single box and pair of chairs”
“Buried in the ceil-ing, dehumidifiers hummed efficiently, working around the clock to give the station's living quarters the desic-cated feel of the deserts of home.”
“Eight dormer * ndows jutted out of the sloped ceil -”
“The creatures had no visible teeth, and clung to the ceil-ing of the shelter with six stubby legs.”
“He found himself in a bright two-bedroom apartment with typically low ceil - ings and small rooms.”
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- Oscar Wilde, 'La Sainte Courtisane'. Jun 6, 2009