roof

     

A roof is the covering on the uppermost part of a builing. A roof protects the building and its contents from the effects of weather. Structures that require roofs range from a letter box to a cathedral or stadium, dwellings being the most numerous.

Trivia about roof

  • To complain bitterly & loudly is to "raise" this
  • Use 4 of the 5 letters in "floor" to build this antonym of it
  • You usually saw a thatcher working on this part of the house
  • "The Fiddler" by Marc Chagall is portrayed as a fiddler on one of these -- L'Chaim!
  • Carrier's Weathermaster HVAC unit, with capacity up to 100 tons, goes here on a building
  • Part of a building on which you'd find a dormer or a cupola
  • This important part of a building can be gambrel or mansard

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