1. A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building 
2. Protective covering on top of a motor vehicle 
3. The inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space
   "the roof of the cave was very high"; "I could see the roof of the bear's mouth" 
4. An upper limit on what is allowed
   "there was a roof on salaries"
   - ceiling, cap

1. Provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof

Derived forms: roofs, roofed, roofing

See also: roofer, roofing

Type of: control, cover, covering, natural covering, protection, protective cover, protective covering

Part of: auto, autobus, automobile, building, bus, car, cave, charabanc [Brit], coach, double-decker, edifice, jitney [N. Amer], lorry [Brit], machine, motorbus, motorcar, motorcoach, motortruck [N. Amer], omnibus, passenger vehicle, truck

Encyclopedia: Roof

• tauon
• taupe
• taurine
• tauromachy
• Taurotragus
• Taurotragus derbianus
• Taurotragus oryx
• Taurus
• Taurus the Bull
• taut
• tauten
• tautly
• tautness
• tautog
• Tautoga
• Tautoga onitis
• Tautogolabrus
• Tautogolabrus adspersus
• tautologic
• tautological
• tautologically
• tautologous
• tautology
• tautomeric
• tautomerism