Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A roof or vault having a circular, polygonal, or elliptical base and a generally hemispherical or semispherical shape.
- noun A geodesic dome.
- noun A domelike structure, object, or natural formation.
- noun Chemistry A form of crystal with two similarly inclined faces that meet at an edge parallel to the horizontal axis.
- noun Slang The human head.
- noun Archaic A large, stately building.
- intransitive verb To cover with or as if with a dome.
- intransitive verb To shape like a dome.
- intransitive verb To rise or swell into the shape of a dome.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish or cover with a dome; give the shape of a dome to.
- noun In geology, an anticlinal fold whose axis equals or approximates a point; an anticlinal fold with quaquaversal dip. Domes are most commonly produced by laccoliths, but they may be due to intersecting folds.
- An obsolete form of
doom . - noun A building; a house; especially, a stately building; a great hall; a church or temple.
- noun In architecture, a cupola; a vault upon a plan circular or nearly so; a hemispherical or approximately hemispherical coving of a building.
- noun This restricted application of the term arose from the fact that the churches of Italy were almost universally built with a cupola at the intersection of the nave and the transept, or over the sanctuary. In some instances dome may refer equally well to the church or cathedral, or to the cupola which is its most conspicuous feature.
- noun Anything shaped like a cupola.
- noun The dome-shaped part of the roof of an astronomical observatory, placed over a telescope.
- noun In crystallography, a form whose planes intersect the vertical axis, but are parallel to one of the lateral axes: so called because it has above or below a horizontal edge like the roof of a house; also, one of the faces of such a form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.
- noun A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
- noun (Arch.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
- noun 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.
- noun (Crystallog.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A common structural element of
architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of asphere , acupola . - noun Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover, e.g. a cake dome.
- noun slang
head (including the meaning 'oral sex ')
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stadium that has a roof
- noun a hemispherical roof
- noun informal terms for a human head
- noun a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But outside the dome is the Moon itself, desolate, rock-filled, not much to see (except the Earth, lurking beautifully in the background).
MIND MELD: SF/F Books That Would Make A Great TV Series 2010
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"Playing in a dome is a beautiful thing, no wind or field conditions or anything like that," Nedney said.
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The floor of 'the dome is an immense elevator, seventy-five feet in diameter, which carries the observer up and down to follow the eye end of the telescope.
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Also, waterproofing the dome is critical, and the exterior material needs to tolerate a wide range of temperatures and hence a wider range of movement due to thermal expansion and contraction.
The cupola: Spain's gift to Mexico's colonial architecture 2009
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The church's majestic dome is considered the second largest in Latin America.
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The justification lies in the religious belief of the Hindu majority that the inner dome is the birthplace of Ram.
No Property Rights, No Peace Shruti Rajagopalan 2010
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The court favored the Hindu claim because according to the faith and belief of the Hindus the place under the inner dome is the birthplace of Ram.
No Property Rights, No Peace Shruti Rajagopalan 2010
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Subsequently, the dome is now moister and ready for the following day of evaporative cooling.
The cupola: Spain's gift to Mexico's colonial architecture 2009
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The small dome is a "first step" aimed at containing the leak, Suttles said, with shut-down efforts to continue even if it is successful.
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The dome is equipped with inner and outer pipes, one to suck up oil and the other to disperse heated seawater and methanol that will act as antifreeze to prevent frozen natural gas from forming as it did on the larger containment box.
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The oppressive heat that settled in the Pacific Northwest was the result of a wide and deep mass of high-pressure air that, because of a wavy jet stream, parked itself over much of the region. Known as a heat dome, such an enormous high-pressure zone acts like a lid, trapping heat so it accumulates.
Pacific Northwest Continues to Bake Beneath ‘Heat Dome’ By 2021
alexz commented on the word dome
slang for a person's skull.
April 5, 2013