domen.

Brit.

/dəʊm/, U.S.

/doʊm/

Forms: Also 1600s dosme, 1700s doom.

Etymology: In sense 1, apparently directly < Latin domus house, home; in other senses, < French dome (15–16th cent.; sometimes dosme, whence < modern French dôme), < Italian duomo house, house of God, ‘chiefe Church or Cathedrall Church in a citie’ (Florio), high cupola, dome (as a distinguishing feature of Italian cathedrals) < Latin domus house.

1. A house, a home; a stately building, a mansion. Now only as a poetical or dignified appellation.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial

palacec1300

dome1553

residencea1616

great house1623

mansion house1651

palazzo1657

châteauc1739

mansion1815

palacio1839

haveli1871

puri1935

1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados xiii. Prol. 93 Unto my dome [= in my dwelling] I saw, ȝou neuir are.

1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 166 Dated at my Dome, or rather Mansion place in Lincolneshire.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dome..a Town-House, Guild-Hall, a State-House, Meeting-house in a city, from that of Florence, which is so called.

1724 J. Swift Riddle vii. 51 Sad charnel-house! a dismal dome, For which all mortals leave their home.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 74/2 They built temples..and other sacred domes.

1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 305 Gladly as he, we seek the dome, And as reluctant turn us home.

figurative.1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. vi. 64 Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul.1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xliii. 53 Hoary crime would come Behind, and fraud rebuild religion's tottering dome.

†2. A cathedral church; = dom n.² Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > principal place of worship > [noun]

minsterOE

architemple1297

cathedral church1297

High Churchc1325

seec1325

mother churcha1387

parish churcha1387

High Kirk1422

see churchc1449

duomo1549

basilica1563

parish kirk1563

cathedral1587

dome1691

basilic1703

dom1861

domchurch1864

1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 71 The Ceremony..Celebrated..at the Dome (so they call the Cathedral Churches in Italy).

1707 London Gaz. No. 4382/3 There was a Jew Christen'd last Sunday in the Dome of this City [Berlin].

1718 J. Addison Remarks Italy (ed. 2) 45 Pope Lucius, who lyes buried in the Dome.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. i. iii. 15 There is also the dome, which is a cathedral church.

a. A rounded vault forming the roof of a building or chief part of it, and having a circular, elliptical, or polygonal base; a cupola.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > dome or cupola

tipe1532

cupola1549

thole1633

dome1656

tholosc1660

imperial1826

onion dome1868

domelet1883

geodesic dome1952

geodetic dome1957

geodesic1977

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dome..a flat round Loover, or open roof to a Steeple, Banqueting-house, &c. Somewhat resembling the bell of a great Watch.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 114 The Kings Palace..was built square, with a Dosme.

1712 London Gaz. No. 5058/2 The Dome of the Cathedral was illuminated.

1760 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. (ed. 3) II. 311 The roof of the Pantheon is a round doome [1757 dome], without pillars or windows.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 66 The whispering gallery in the dome of St. Paul's cathedral, London.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 229 I defined a dome as the covering of a circular space produced by the revolution of an arch round its central vertical axis.

b. The hemispherical roof of an astronomical observatory, made to revolve and open so as to direct the telescope towards any part of the heavens.

ΚΠ

1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 30/2 Since the year 1852, a time-ball has been dropped on the dome of the Observatory..at precisely one o'clock.

a. transferred. The vaulted roof of a cavern or natural hollow; the concave vault of the sky; a vaulted canopy; a canopy of trees, etc.; a beehive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > like a vault or dome

vault1530

cope1667

dome1726

umbrella type1913

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iii. 37 Whence the Astronomers descend into a large Dome..called..the Astronomers Cave.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 179 The tender race, By thousands, tumbles from their honey'd domes.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. ii. 57 The whole dome of the sky had an appearance of transparency.

1817 Combe's Devil upon Two Sticks (ed. 5) VI. xxiv. 59 In a large bed, with a dome to it.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights iv, in Poems 50 Imbowered vaults of pillared palm,..the dome Of hollow boughs.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 18 Some bubbles..had lifted the coating here and there into little rounded domes.

b. The convex rounded summit of a mountain, a wave, etc. In U.S., frequently entering into the names of rounded mountain peaks.

ΚΠ

1788 W. Jones Tartars v, in Wks. (1799) I. 52 A stupendous edifice, the beams and pillars of which are many ranges of lofty hills, and the dome, one prodigious mountain.]

1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend v. 253 The billows..upon their flowing dome..poise her.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) x. 366 Tabor with its rounded dome.

1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 58 Velvets..‘studded’ with polished domes.

1890 M. Townsend U.S.: Index to United States Amer. 138 Carter Dome, New Hampshire; The Dome, State of New York.

c. Geology. Any of various kinds of geological structure resembling a dome in shape (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > dome or cap

cap rock1867

dome1900

louderback1930

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. xxi. 289 Suppose the five formations to lie in horizontal stratification at the bottom of the sea; then let a movement from below press them upwards into the form of a flattened dome, and let the crown of this dome be afterwards cut off.]

1900 Rep. Geol. Surv. Louisiana 1899 228 The dome of the salt is situated on the northeast of the island.

1900 Rep. Geol. Surv. Louisiana 1899 229 A very distinct anticline, or better, elongated dome.

1909 J. P. Iddings Igneous Rocks I. i. viii. 301 Since the more siliceous lavas are generally the more viscous when extruded, they are oftener found in domes than the less siliceous ones.

1930 Engineering 10 Jan. 39/3 A sulphur salt dome in Louisiana has yielded 9,000,000 tons of sulphur.

1936 C. M. Nevin Princ. Struct. Geol. (ed. 2) iii. 46 A dome is a roughly symmetrical upfold, the beds dipping in all directions, more or less equally, from a point.

1938 Nature 2 Apr. 599/1 The productive domes are fairly typical of the oil fields, being of small extent but giving large yields.

1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. vi. 73 Domes and basins represent the limiting cases in which the beds dip in all directions, outwards from, or inwards towards, the centre of the structure.

1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xvi. 349 Salt domes are curious structures occurring in great numbers along the Gulf Coast of the United States.

1962 E. A. Vincent tr. A. Rittmann Volcanoes i. 26 The slowly extruded lava piles up into a dome over the mouth of the vent.

d. The head. slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun]

nolleOE

headOE

topa1225

copc1264

scalpa1300

chiefc1330

crownc1330

jowla1400

poll?a1400

testea1400

ball in the hoodc1400

palleta1425

noddle?1507

costard?1515

nab?1536

neck1560

coxcomb1567

sconce1567

now1568

headpiece1579

mazer1581

mazardc1595

cockcomb1602

costrel1604

cranion1611

pasha1616

noddle pate1622

block1635

cranium1647

sallet1652

poundrel1664

nob1699

crany?1730

knowledge box1755

noodle1762

noggin1769

napper1785

garret1796

pimple1811

knowledge-casket1822

coco1828

cobbra1832

coconut1834

top-piece1838

nut1841

barnet1857

twopenny1859

chump1864

topknot1869

conk1870

masthead1884

filbert1886

bonce1889

crumpet1891

dome1891

roof1897

beanc1905

belfry1907

hat rack1907

melon1907

box1908

lemon1923

loaf1925

pound1933

sconec1945

nana1966

1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 305/2.

1918 C. Sandburg Cornhuskers 60 Your bony head..Those grappling hooks..The dome and the wings of you.

1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean ix. 160 He got tired of trying to shove the book stuff into ivory domes like yours.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 155 Children go in for short sharp words, as..‘bonce’, ‘block’, and ‘dome’ for head.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 196 ‘Dong him on the dome’ (head).

5. Technical senses.

a. Manufacturing. The cover of a reverberatory furnace, etc.

ΚΠ

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Dome ..among chymists, a kind of arched Cover for a Reverberatory Furnace.

1823 Johnson Specif. Patent 4747 2 The..uppermost vessel..must have a close dome or cover applied to it.

1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 127 The dome ought to be made as flat as possible consistent with durability, in order to reflect the heat down upon the coal.

b. Crystallography. (See quot.)

ΚΠ

1864 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 344 Dome, a term used in crystallography to designate a trimetric, monoclinic, or triclinic prism, whose faces and edges are parallel to one of the secondary axes.

1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §326 The term dome is employed not in contradistinction to the term prism or prismatid, but, like the latter term, conventionally and merely to distinguish these forms from one another.

c. In locomotive engines, the raised conical part of the boiler, forming a steam-chamber, the steam-dome (Weale Dict. Terms, 1849–50). In railway carriages, the raised roof, forming a space for ventilation and light (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech., 1874).

ΚΠ

1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 259/2 The steam-dome and similar parts are double.

d. Watchmaking. The back part of the inner case of a watch to which sometimes the works are attached.

ΚΠ

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 88 Used for attaching a watch movement to a dome case.

e. dome of silence n. the trade name of a type of castor (castor n.² 2) fitted to furniture; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > foot > castor

dome of silence1924

glider1926

1924 Trade Marks Jrnl. 12 Mar. 551 Domes of Silence...Metal Castors for Furniture.

1925 A. Christie Secret of Chimneys xvii. 170 Those boots of yours aren't exactly domes of silence, are they, Bill?

1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 161 One of those cases of circumstantial evidence, in which you feel the jurymen's anxiety—because mistakes have been made—like domes of silence muting the court.

1960 Woman 13 Feb. 3/4 Domes of silence, small metal fittings for the legs of tables or chairs.

f. In full dome fastener. A press-stud consisting of a rounded portion which clips into a socket, used esp. as a fastener for gloves.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > glove > parts of > other

welt1883

palm1892

dome1910

1910 Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 6/4 Ladies' Kid Gloves..with 2 or 3 dome fasteners.

1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 Jan. 7/1 (advt.) Dome Fasteners. Black or White, assorted sizes.

1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 172 Press studs are called domes [in New Zealand].

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as dome-case, dome-cover, dome-face, dome-form, dome-head, dome-span, dome-spire, dome-theatre, dome-top, dome-vaulting; dome-like, dome-shaped adjs.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > dome or cupola

coupled1615

cupolated1645

cupola'd1673

domic1823

dome-shaped1832

domy1833

domical1846

domed1855

domal1928

1797 College: a Satire 6 Science trailed her pall Through the dome-theatre and spacious hall.

1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 128 Its [the beaver's] house has an arched dome-like roof.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) Dome-vaulting..is lighter than any that can cover the same area.

1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 60 The dome-shaped roof.

1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 149/2 Dome Cover, in locomotive engines, the brass or copper cover which encloses the dome, to prevent the radiation of heat.

1863–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 147 When trimetric crystals are bounded only by prismatic and dome-faces.

1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §328 Dome-forms with the general symbol (0kl).

C2.

dome-headed adj. having a large, well-rounded head.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > types of head > [adjective] > having

headedOE

cop-headed1519

small-headedc1540

jolt-headed1552

chuff-headed1563

ass-headed1584

two-headed1596

golden-headed1598

hard-headed1601

big-headed1614

bicipitous1646

buffle-headed1654

female-headed1655

heavy-headed1684

bullet-headed1699

jolter-headed1748

pinheaded1771

pigheaded1774

thin-headed1804

roundhead1842

bulbous-headed1860

blob-headed1865

occipital1873

fat-headed1883

mesopic1885

peanut-headed1906

dome-headed1910

1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly vii. 158 A certain high-browed gentleman living at Highbury... This dome-headed monster of intellect alleges [etc.].

1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 75 A sage, dome-headed, grey, Who looked a child.

dome-light n. a dome-shaped lamp.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > defined by shape

bell-lamp1836

dome-light1956

1956 Archit. Rev. 119 354/4 The metal combined curbs and linings made for use with glass domelights.

1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed iii. 23 She sat back under the winking domelight.

Derivatives

ˈdomeless adj. not having a dome.

ΚΠ

1870 Athenæum 20 Aug. 232/3 In that domeless Domkirche of Cologne.

Draft additions 1993

[ < astrodome n. 2.] A sports stadium with a domed roof. Frequently as the final element in the names of stadiums of this kind. North American.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun]

ring?a1400

rink1489

game place1542

playing field1583

rink-room1594

stadium1603

cirque1644

xystus1664

amphitheatre1710

field1730

grandstand1754

chunk-yard1773

sports ground1862

park1867

sports field1877

pitch1895

close1898

sports centre1907

padang1909

sports stadium1911

bowl1913

field house1922

sportsdrome1951

sports complex1957

astrodome1964

dome1965

sportsplex1974

1965 Sports Illustr. 12 Apr. 45 (heading) Giltfinger's golden dome [= Houston Astrodome].

1984 Toronto Star 28 Mar. a6/1 The Mississauga dome, which would be constructed on a site just to the west of the airport, would, like all the other prospective domes, require heavy government support.

1986 TV Guide (U.S.) 6 Dec. 20/2 NFL teams hate playing in the Kingdome because the crowd noise disrupts their offense.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dome
释义	domen. Brit. /dəʊm/, U.S. /doʊm/ Forms: Also 1600s dosme, 1700s doom. Etymology: In sense 1, apparently directly < Latin domus house, home; in other senses, < French dome (15–16th cent.; sometimes dosme, whence < modern French dôme), < Italian duomo house, house of God, ‘chiefe Church or Cathedrall Church in a citie’ (Florio), high cupola, dome (as a distinguishing feature of Italian cathedrals) < Latin domus house. 1. A house, a home; a stately building, a mansion. Now only as a poetical or dignified appellation. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial palacec1300 dome1553 residencea1616 great house1623 mansion house1651 palazzo1657 châteauc1739 mansion1815 palacio1839 haveli1871 puri1935 1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados xiii. Prol. 93 Unto my dome [= in my dwelling] I saw, ȝou neuir are. 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 166 Dated at my Dome, or rather Mansion place in Lincolneshire. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dome..a Town-House, Guild-Hall, a State-House, Meeting-house in a city, from that of Florence, which is so called. 1724 J. Swift Riddle vii. 51 Sad charnel-house! a dismal dome, For which all mortals leave their home. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 74/2 They built temples..and other sacred domes. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 305 Gladly as he, we seek the dome, And as reluctant turn us home. figurative.1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. vi. 64 Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul.1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xliii. 53 Hoary crime would come Behind, and fraud rebuild religion's tottering dome. †2. A cathedral church; = dom n.² Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > principal place of worship > [noun] minsterOE architemple1297 cathedral church1297 High Churchc1325 seec1325 mother churcha1387 parish churcha1387 High Kirk1422 see churchc1449 duomo1549 basilica1563 parish kirk1563 cathedral1587 dome1691 basilic1703 dom1861 domchurch1864 1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 71 The Ceremony..Celebrated..at the Dome (so they call the Cathedral Churches in Italy). 1707 London Gaz. No. 4382/3 There was a Jew Christen'd last Sunday in the Dome of this City [Berlin]. 1718 J. Addison Remarks Italy (ed. 2) 45 Pope Lucius, who lyes buried in the Dome. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. i. iii. 15 There is also the dome, which is a cathedral church. 3. a. A rounded vault forming the roof of a building or chief part of it, and having a circular, elliptical, or polygonal base; a cupola. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > dome or cupola tipe1532 cupola1549 thole1633 dome1656 tholosc1660 imperial1826 onion dome1868 domelet1883 geodesic dome1952 geodetic dome1957 geodesic1977 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dome..a flat round Loover, or open roof to a Steeple, Banqueting-house, &c. Somewhat resembling the bell of a great Watch. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 114 The Kings Palace..was built square, with a Dosme. 1712 London Gaz. No. 5058/2 The Dome of the Cathedral was illuminated. 1760 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. (ed. 3) II. 311 The roof of the Pantheon is a round doome [1757 dome], without pillars or windows. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 66 The whispering gallery in the dome of St. Paul's cathedral, London. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 229 I defined a dome as the covering of a circular space produced by the revolution of an arch round its central vertical axis. b. The hemispherical roof of an astronomical observatory, made to revolve and open so as to direct the telescope towards any part of the heavens. ΚΠ 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 30/2 Since the year 1852, a time-ball has been dropped on the dome of the Observatory..at precisely one o'clock. 4. a. transferred. The vaulted roof of a cavern or natural hollow; the concave vault of the sky; a vaulted canopy; a canopy of trees, etc.; a beehive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > like a vault or dome vault1530 cope1667 dome1726 umbrella type1913 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iii. 37 Whence the Astronomers descend into a large Dome..called..the Astronomers Cave. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 179 The tender race, By thousands, tumbles from their honey'd domes. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. ii. 57 The whole dome of the sky had an appearance of transparency. 1817 Combe's Devil upon Two Sticks (ed. 5) VI. xxiv. 59 In a large bed, with a dome to it. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights iv, in Poems 50 Imbowered vaults of pillared palm,..the dome Of hollow boughs. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 18 Some bubbles..had lifted the coating here and there into little rounded domes. b. The convex rounded summit of a mountain, a wave, etc. In U.S., frequently entering into the names of rounded mountain peaks. ΚΠ 1788 W. Jones Tartars v, in Wks. (1799) I. 52 A stupendous edifice, the beams and pillars of which are many ranges of lofty hills, and the dome, one prodigious mountain.] 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend v. 253 The billows..upon their flowing dome..poise her. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) x. 366 Tabor with its rounded dome. 1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 58 Velvets..‘studded’ with polished domes. 1890 M. Townsend U.S.: Index to United States Amer. 138 Carter Dome, New Hampshire; The Dome, State of New York. c. Geology. Any of various kinds of geological structure resembling a dome in shape (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > dome or cap cap rock1867 dome1900 louderback1930 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. xxi. 289 Suppose the five formations to lie in horizontal stratification at the bottom of the sea; then let a movement from below press them upwards into the form of a flattened dome, and let the crown of this dome be afterwards cut off.] 1900 Rep. Geol. Surv. Louisiana 1899 228 The dome of the salt is situated on the northeast of the island. 1900 Rep. Geol. Surv. Louisiana 1899 229 A very distinct anticline, or better, elongated dome. 1909 J. P. Iddings Igneous Rocks I. i. viii. 301 Since the more siliceous lavas are generally the more viscous when extruded, they are oftener found in domes than the less siliceous ones. 1930 Engineering 10 Jan. 39/3 A sulphur salt dome in Louisiana has yielded 9,000,000 tons of sulphur. 1936 C. M. Nevin Princ. Struct. Geol. (ed. 2) iii. 46 A dome is a roughly symmetrical upfold, the beds dipping in all directions, more or less equally, from a point. 1938 Nature 2 Apr. 599/1 The productive domes are fairly typical of the oil fields, being of small extent but giving large yields. 1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. vi. 73 Domes and basins represent the limiting cases in which the beds dip in all directions, outwards from, or inwards towards, the centre of the structure. 1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xvi. 349 Salt domes are curious structures occurring in great numbers along the Gulf Coast of the United States. 1962 E. A. Vincent tr. A. Rittmann Volcanoes i. 26 The slowly extruded lava piles up into a dome over the mouth of the vent. d. The head. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] nolleOE headOE topa1225 copc1264 scalpa1300 chiefc1330 crownc1330 jowla1400 poll?a1400 testea1400 ball in the hoodc1400 palleta1425 noddle?1507 costard?1515 nab?1536 neck1560 coxcomb1567 sconce1567 now1568 headpiece1579 mazer1581 mazardc1595 cockcomb1602 costrel1604 cranion1611 pasha1616 noddle pate1622 block1635 cranium1647 sallet1652 poundrel1664 nob1699 crany?1730 knowledge box1755 noodle1762 noggin1769 napper1785 garret1796 pimple1811 knowledge-casket1822 coco1828 cobbra1832 coconut1834 top-piece1838 nut1841 barnet1857 twopenny1859 chump1864 topknot1869 conk1870 masthead1884 filbert1886 bonce1889 crumpet1891 dome1891 roof1897 beanc1905 belfry1907 hat rack1907 melon1907 box1908 lemon1923 loaf1925 pound1933 sconec1945 nana1966 1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 305/2. 1918 C. Sandburg Cornhuskers 60 Your bony head..Those grappling hooks..The dome and the wings of you. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean ix. 160 He got tired of trying to shove the book stuff into ivory domes like yours. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 155 Children go in for short sharp words, as..‘bonce’, ‘block’, and ‘dome’ for head. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 196 ‘Dong him on the dome’ (head). 5. Technical senses. a. Manufacturing. The cover of a reverberatory furnace, etc. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Dome ..among chymists, a kind of arched Cover for a Reverberatory Furnace. 1823 Johnson Specif. Patent 4747 2 The..uppermost vessel..must have a close dome or cover applied to it. 1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 127 The dome ought to be made as flat as possible consistent with durability, in order to reflect the heat down upon the coal. b. Crystallography. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1864 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 344 Dome, a term used in crystallography to designate a trimetric, monoclinic, or triclinic prism, whose faces and edges are parallel to one of the secondary axes. 1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §326 The term dome is employed not in contradistinction to the term prism or prismatid, but, like the latter term, conventionally and merely to distinguish these forms from one another. c. In locomotive engines, the raised conical part of the boiler, forming a steam-chamber, the steam-dome (Weale Dict. Terms, 1849–50). In railway carriages, the raised roof, forming a space for ventilation and light (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech., 1874). ΚΠ 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 259/2 The steam-dome and similar parts are double. d. Watchmaking. The back part of the inner case of a watch to which sometimes the works are attached. ΚΠ 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 88 Used for attaching a watch movement to a dome case. e. dome of silence n. the trade name of a type of castor (castor n.² 2) fitted to furniture; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > foot > castor dome of silence1924 glider1926 1924 Trade Marks Jrnl. 12 Mar. 551 Domes of Silence...Metal Castors for Furniture. 1925 A. Christie Secret of Chimneys xvii. 170 Those boots of yours aren't exactly domes of silence, are they, Bill? 1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 161 One of those cases of circumstantial evidence, in which you feel the jurymen's anxiety—because mistakes have been made—like domes of silence muting the court. 1960 Woman 13 Feb. 3/4 Domes of silence, small metal fittings for the legs of tables or chairs. f. In full dome fastener. A press-stud consisting of a rounded portion which clips into a socket, used esp. as a fastener for gloves. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > glove > parts of > other welt1883 palm1892 dome1910 1910 Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 6/4 Ladies' Kid Gloves..with 2 or 3 dome fasteners. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 Jan. 7/1 (advt.) Dome Fasteners. Black or White, assorted sizes. 1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 172 Press studs are called domes [in New Zealand]. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as dome-case, dome-cover, dome-face, dome-form, dome-head, dome-span, dome-spire, dome-theatre, dome-top, dome-vaulting; dome-like, dome-shaped adjs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > dome or cupola coupled1615 cupolated1645 cupola'd1673 domic1823 dome-shaped1832 domy1833 domical1846 domed1855 domal1928 1797 College: a Satire 6 Science trailed her pall Through the dome-theatre and spacious hall. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 128 Its [the beaver's] house has an arched dome-like roof. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) Dome-vaulting..is lighter than any that can cover the same area. 1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 60 The dome-shaped roof. 1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 149/2 Dome Cover, in locomotive engines, the brass or copper cover which encloses the dome, to prevent the radiation of heat. 1863–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 147 When trimetric crystals are bounded only by prismatic and dome-faces. 1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. §328 Dome-forms with the general symbol (0kl). C2. dome-headed adj. having a large, well-rounded head. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > types of head > [adjective] > having headedOE cop-headed1519 small-headedc1540 jolt-headed1552 chuff-headed1563 ass-headed1584 two-headed1596 golden-headed1598 hard-headed1601 big-headed1614 bicipitous1646 buffle-headed1654 female-headed1655 heavy-headed1684 bullet-headed1699 jolter-headed1748 pinheaded1771 pigheaded1774 thin-headed1804 roundhead1842 bulbous-headed1860 blob-headed1865 occipital1873 fat-headed1883 mesopic1885 peanut-headed1906 dome-headed1910 1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly vii. 158 A certain high-browed gentleman living at Highbury... This dome-headed monster of intellect alleges [etc.]. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 75 A sage, dome-headed, grey, Who looked a child. dome-light n. a dome-shaped lamp. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > defined by shape bell-lamp1836 dome-light1956 1956 Archit. Rev. 119 354/4 The metal combined curbs and linings made for use with glass domelights. 1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed iii. 23 She sat back under the winking domelight. Derivatives ˈdomeless adj. not having a dome. ΚΠ 1870 Athenæum 20 Aug. 232/3 In that domeless Domkirche of Cologne. Draft additions 1993 [ < astrodome n. 2.] A sports stadium with a domed roof. Frequently as the final element in the names of stadiums of this kind. North American. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] ring?a1400 rink1489 game place1542 playing field1583 rink-room1594 stadium1603 cirque1644 xystus1664 amphitheatre1710 field1730 grandstand1754 chunk-yard1773 sports ground1862 park1867 sports field1877 pitch1895 close1898 sports centre1907 padang1909 sports stadium1911 bowl1913 field house1922 sportsdrome1951 sports complex1957 astrodome1964 dome1965 sportsplex1974 1965 Sports Illustr. 12 Apr. 45 (heading) Giltfinger's golden dome [= Houston Astrodome]. 1984 Toronto Star 28 Mar. a6/1 The Mississauga dome, which would be constructed on a site just to the west of the airport, would, like all the other prospective domes, require heavy government support. 1986 TV Guide (U.S.) 6 Dec. 20/2 NFL teams hate playing in the Kingdome because the crowd noise disrupts their offense. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). domev. Etymology: < dome n. 1. transitive. To cover with or as with a dome. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > provide with domed or arched roof embow1481 envault1523 cupola1615 cope1705 dome1876 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights xxv. 248 An enlarged chamber, almost domed in by the deep scooped over~leaning wall. 1885 Ld. Tennyson Early Spring i [He] domes the red-plow'd hills With loving blue. 1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France II. xix. 88 To the Romans there was no necessity for doming over quadrangular spaces. 2. To make dome-shaped. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > like vault or dome vault1552 dome1879 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 299/1 And brings down upon them a polished globular punch, which domes them up. 1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. ii. iv. 293 The roof had been raised and domed. 3. intransitive. To rise or swell as a dome. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (intransitive)] > like vault or dome vault1805 dome1887 1887 Argosy Jan. 32 The cathedral towered, or rather domed, above the ramparts. 1894 A. Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes 261 His forehead domes out in a white curve. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1553v.1876
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