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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: rood - rooms</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="rood"> rood, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. 40 square rods; 1/4 of an acre or 10.117 ares. <DD> b. 1 square rod or 25.293 square meters. <DD> c. a varying unit of linear measure, equal to about 6 to 8 yards. <DD> 2. (Archaic.) the cross on which Christ suffered and died. Ex. Socrates drinking the hemlock, and Jesus on the rood (W. H. Carruth). <DD> 3. a representation of it; crucifix, such as a large crucifix at the entrance to the chancel of a medieval church. </DL> <A NAME="roodbeam"> rood beam,<DL COMPACT><DD> a beam across the entrance to the choir or chancel of a church to support the rood, and usually forming the head of a rood screen. </DL> <A NAME="roodloft"> rood loft,<DL COMPACT><DD> a gallery in a church over a rood screen. </DL> <A NAME="roodscreen"> rood screen,<DL COMPACT><DD> a screen, often of elaborate design and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church. </DL> <A NAME="roodstair"> rood stair,<DL COMPACT><DD> a stairway leading to the top of the rood screen or rood loft. </DL> <A NAME="roodsteeple"> rood steeple,<DL COMPACT><DD> a steeple built over the rood or over the intersection of the nave and transepts. </DL> <A NAME="roodtower"> rood tower,<DL COMPACT><DD> a tower in the position of a rood steeple. </DL> <A NAME="roof"> roof, noun, pl. roofs, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the top covering of a building. Ex. Structural alterations are being made, and the gutters could not take the water from the temporary roof (London Times). <DD> 2. Ex. (Figurative:) the roof of a car, the roof of a cave, the roof of the mouth. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) a house; home. <DD>v.t. to cover with a roof; form a roof over. Ex. rude log cabins, roofed with bark (George Bancroft). (Figurative.) The trees roofed the glade where we camped. expr. raised the roof, (Informal.) to make a disturbance; create an uproar or confusion. Ex. She [would] raise the roof when people didn't do what she wanted them to do (New York Times). adj. rooflike. </DL> <A NAME="roofage"> roofage, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> material for a roof; roofing. </DL> <A NAME="roofdeck"> roof deck,<DL COMPACT><DD> a flat roof or portion of a roof used for lounging or dining. </DL> <A NAME="roofer"> roofer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes or repairs roofs. </DL> <A NAME="roofgarden"> roof garden,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a garden on the flat roof of a building. Ex. She stayed at a "grand hotel" where there was a roof garden with an excellent view of the city (New Yorker). <DD> 2. the roof or top story, as of a building, ornamented with plants or the like, and used for a restaurant, theater, etc. </DL> <A NAME="roofing"> roofing, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun material used for roofs. Shingles are a common roofing for houses. <DD>adj. used for roofs. Ex. roofing tile, roofing nails. </DL> <A NAME="roofless"> roofless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having no roof. <DD> 2. having no home or shelter. Ex. a roofless orphan. </DL> <A NAME="roofline"> roofline, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> shape or outline of a roof, as of a car. Ex. The new hardtop has a thin roofline that overhangs wrap-around rear-windows (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="roofrat"> roof rat,<DL COMPACT><DD> a long-tailed black rat found about buildings in Europe, southern North America, and South America; black rat. </DL> <A NAME="rooftop"> rooftop, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun the top of a building; roof. Ex. The streets, balconies, and rooftops were packed with a clapping, shouting crowd (Time). <DD>adj. on top of a building. Ex. rooftop antennas, a rooftop restaurant. </DL> <A NAME="rooftree"> rooftree, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the main horizontal timber along the top of a roof; ridgepole. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) a roof; home. Ex. ... to seek shelter under a strange rooftree (Anthony Trollope). </DL> <A NAME="rooftruss"> roof truss,<DL COMPACT><DD> a truss in the framework of a roof, as the triangular one formed by two principal rafters and a tie beam. </DL> <A NAME="rooinek"> rooinek, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an Englishman (used in an unfriendly way in South Africa). </DL> <A NAME="rook"> rook (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a common European bird like a crow, that often nests in large flocks in trees near buildings. The rook belongs to the same genus as the crow. Ex. The rooks cawed peacefully in the old elms (John Galsworthy). <DD> 2. a person who cheats, as at cards or dice. <DD>v.t. to cheat. </DL> <A NAME="rook"> rook (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the pieces in the game of chess; castle. It is placed at the corners of the board to begin the game, and moves any number of unoccupied squares along a rank or file. </DL> <A NAME="rookery"> rookery, noun, pl. -eries.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a breeding place of rooks; colony of rooks. <DD> 2. a breeding place or colony where other birds or animals are crowded together. Ex. a rookery of seals. [He] led a small troop across 4 miles of unsettled ice to a huge penguin rookery (Newsweek). <DD> 3. (Figurative.) a crowded, dirty, mean, and poor tenement house or group of such houses. </DL> <A NAME="rookie"> rookie or rooky (1), noun, pl. rookies.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD> 1. an inexperienced recruit. Ex. a police rookie, a rookie in the army. <DD> 2. a beginner; novice. <DD> 3. a new player on an athletic team, especially a professional baseball, football, basketball, or hockey player in his first season on a league team. </DL> <A NAME="rookwood"> Rookwood, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a type of earthenware which uses tints of all colors and many types of ornamentation and glazes for bowls, vases, candlesticks, and dinnerware. Ex. Rookwood pottery. </DL> <A NAME="rooky"> rooky (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of rooks; visited often by rooks. Ex. Light thickens and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood (Shakespeare). </DL> <A NAME="room"> room, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a part of a house, or other building, with walls separating it from the rest of the building of which it is a part. Ex. a dining room, a room in a school. <DD> 2. the people in a room. Ex. The whole room laughed. The room applauded vociferously (Thackeray). <DD> 3. space occupied by, or available for, something. Ex. The street was so crowded that the cars did not have room to move. There is little room to move in a crowd. I am pent up in frouzy lodgings, where there is not room enough to swing a cat (Tobias Smollett). <DD> 4. (Figurative.) opportunity. Ex. There is room for improvement in his work. <DD> 5. (Archaic.) place; stead. Ex. The inland countries had not been required to furnish ships, or money in the room of ships (Macaulay). <DD> 6. (Obsolete.) a position; post; office. <DD>v.i. to occupy a room; live in a room; lodge. Ex. He rooms in the gray house. Three girls from our town roomed together at college. <DD>v.t. to provide with a room. Ex. The door's open, and if they couldn't room any more guests they'd pretty soon close up, I guess (Daily Telegraph). expr. rooms, lodgings. Ex. He travelled ... to Islington, the locality of Mrs. Harper's latest "rooms" (Leonard Merrick). </DL> <A NAME="roomage"> roomage, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> room or space afforded. </DL> <A NAME="roomandboard"> room and board,<DL COMPACT><DD> lodging and meals. Ex. a hotel providing room and board. </DL> <A NAME="roomandpillar"> room-and-pillar, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or designating a system of mining coal in which a series of rooms is cut into the coal bed, in each of which the miners leave columns of coal standing to help support the roof until they mine out a particular area. Most underground coal mines in the United States are room-and-pillar mines. </DL> <A NAME="roomclerk"> room clerk,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an employee in a hotel, motel, or resort, who assigns rooms to guests. </DL> <A NAME="roomdivider"> room divider,<DL COMPACT><DD> a panel, screen, set of shelves, or other furniture, used as a partial partition. Ex. The room divider ... has lately been debased into more or less trivial reproductions of the panels used in Japanese houses (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="roomer"> roomer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who lives in a rented room or rooms in another's house; lodger. </DL> <A NAME="roomette"> roomette, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a small private bedroom on a railroad sleeping car. </DL> <A NAME="roomful"> roomful, noun, pl. -fuls.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. enough to fill a room. Ex. a roomful of books. <DD> 2. the people or things in a room. </DL> <A NAME="roomily"> roomily, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a roomy manner. </DL> <A NAME="roominess"> roominess, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> ample space; abundance of room; spaciousness. </DL> <A NAME="roominghouse"> rooming house,<DL COMPACT><DD> a house with rooms to rent. </DL> <A NAME="roomingin"> rooming-in, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the practice of living in a house in which one is employed as a domestic servant; living-in. <DD> 2. an arrangement in some hospitals whereby the mother of a newborn baby may keep it in her own room instead of in the nursery; lying-in. </DL> <A NAME="roommate"> roommate, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who shares a room with another or others. <DD> 2. (Informal.) a person who cohabits with another. Ex. You want to avoid getting socked with your roommate's debts. When you live with someone without being married, you assume absolutely no responsibility for his or her debts (Esquire). </DL> <A NAME="rooms"> rooms, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under room. </DL> <A HREF="roomserv.dic">NEXT</A>