dome

[Dome]

A dome is a large hemispherical roof, like those seen on many capitol buildings. The Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem, is a Muslim shrine with a golden dome that sits on a holy rock.

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A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Noun
a hemispherical roof

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a stadium that has a roof

Noun
informal terms for a human head

Noun
a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward


n.
A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.

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A cupola formed on a large scale.

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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.

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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.

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Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.


Dome

Dome, n. [F. d'93me, It. duomo, fr. L. domus a house, domus Dei or Domini, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. house, to build, and E. timber. See Timber.] 1. A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Approach the dome, the social banquet share.
2. (Arch.) A cupola formed on a large scale. &hand; "The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom; and it is supposed that the word in its present English sense has crept into use from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted by a cupola." Am. Cyc. 3. 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. 4. (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. &hand; If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome. Dana.

Dome

Dome, n. [See Doom.] Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.

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Usage Examples

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

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Other Usage Examples

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

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