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dome (iou)



dome noun & verb. E16.

A. noun.
I. A house.
A house, a home; a stately building, a mansion. Now chiefly literary. E16.
Swift Sad charnel-house! a dismal dome, For which all mortals leave their home.
A cathedral church. Cf. DOM noun3. L17-M18.
II. A hemispherical surface.
A rounded vault forming (the chief part of) the roof of a building, and having an elliptical or polygonal base; a large cupola. M17.
M. Girouard A tower capped by a green copper dome.
b. The revolving openable hemispherical roof of an astronomical observatory. M19.
c. A stadium with a domed roof. Cf. ASTRODOME (b). N. Amer. M20.
The vaulted roof of a cavern or natural hollow; the concave vault of the sky; a natural canopy of trees etc. E18.
J. L. Waten The high dome of light-blue sky.
A dome-shaped part of anything; a convex lid or cover. E18.
T. S. Eliot The egg's well-rounded dome.
b. The rounded summit of a natural object, as a mountain, hill, wave, etc. M19.
c. In full dome fastener. A press-stud consisting of a rounded portion which clips into a socket, used esp. as a fastener for gloves. E20.
The head. slang. L19.
Geology. A dome-shaped landform or underground structure. E20.
N. Calder Salt domes are favourite targets for oil prospectors.
Phrases: Dome of Silence (proprietary name for) a type of castor fitted to furniture.
Comb.: dome fastener: see sense 5c above; dome-headed adjective having a large rounded head; dome-light: with a dome-shaped cover or shade.
b. verb.
verb trans. Cover (as) with a dome. L19.
verb trans. Make dome-shaped. L19.
Mrs H. Ward The roof had been raised and domed.
verb intrans. Be or become dome-shaped. L19.
Scientific American A caldera whose floor has slowly domed upward in the millenniums since the eruption. Nature Towards the end of the Carboniferous period uplift..and doming of the region took place.