Roof

Definition

roof /ru:f/ n ( pl roofs ) ေခါင္မိုး။ အမိုး။ a flat/sloping/pitched roof ❍ a thatched/tiled/slate roof ❍ The roof is leaking again. ❍ fly above the roofs of the city ❍ the roof of one's mouth ❍ The roof of the tunnel caved in, killing twelve miners. See also SUN-ROOF ❍ CAR, HOUSE n v ~ sth (over/in); ~ sth (with sth) အမိုးမိုးသည္။ a garage roofed with tiles ❍ a plan to roof in the stadium. ❏ go through the roof [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ယမ္းပံုမီးက် ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ ေဒါသေပါက္ကြဲသည္။ She went through the roof when I told her I'd crashed her car. ၂။ (ေဈးႏႈန္း) ေခါင္ခိုက္႐ံုမက ထိုးတက္သြားသည္။ Property prices have gone through the roof. ❏ have a roof over one's head [ IDM ] ေနအိမ္ ေခၚစရာ ရိွသည္။ The house is very small but at least we've got a roof over our heads. ❏ -roofed (forming compound adjs ) … အမိုးမိုး ထားေသာ။ red-roofed cottages. ❏ roofing n [U] ၁။ အမိုးမိုးရေသာပစၥည္း။ roofing tiles/slates/felt. ၂။ အမိုးမိုးျခင္းလုပ္ငန္း။ a roofing contractor. ❏ roof-garden n အမိုးေပၚဥယ်ာဥ္။ ❏ roof-rack n ယာဥ္အမိုးတြင္ တပ္ထားေသာ ပစၥည္းတင္စင္။ ❍ car, rack 1 ❏ under one/the same roof [ IDM ] တစ္အိမ္တည္း။ Although divorced, they continued to live under the same roof. ❏ under one's roof [ IDM ] မိမိအိမ္ရိပ္ေအာက္။ I won't have that man under my roof again.

Examples

1. The roof is leaking again.
2. A thatched roof (=made of straw)
3. Rain pattered on the roof of the tent.
4. One man had climbed onto the roof of his car.
5. Rock formations on the roof of the cave